Industry Insider

  • Objective Releases Connect Link for HPE Records Manager 8.2+

    Don’t you hate it when you want to upgrade your core EDRMS system to the latest version, but there is a component within the technology stack that is holding you back? Your organisation can be blocked from embracing new features and functions that can lift productivity and in some cases hold back the delivery of new services. Overtime these blockers can start to cost real $$ and in some cases impact upon team morale.

  • Drucker's Questions for the Information Organisation

    When organisations want to buy an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS), they often believe it will solve their records management problems. They find they have lots of paper. They have lots of electronic documents. They have shared drives that are full and disorganised.

  • Australia lagging US in information governance innovation

    Australia is lagging the US in its approach to information governance, placing enterprises and individuals at risk according to Susan Bennett, co-founder of Information Governance ANZ, a new think tank that aims to lift the profile of information governance and spur enterprises into action.

  • Data governance needed more than ever, but not as a roadblock to IT change

    We have moved from an era in IT where the relational database management system was the one-size-fits-all technology, where data being used for informational purposes was solely sourced from in-house corporate databases that were rigorously defined, structured and well within the span of control of IT. 

  • The Lifecycle of Grey Data

    Organsations habitually over-retain information, especially unstructured electronic information, for many reasons. However, many organisations simply have not addressed what to do with this data so fall back on relying on individual employees to decide what should be kept and for how long and what should be disposed of.

  • Evolution of the digital workplace

    The concept of a fully enabled digital work environment, or digital workplace, has been a hot topic over the last few years. This concept of individuals moving around their offices unencumbered and working externally without barriers is becoming more and more a reality.

  • Expanding the value of ECM

    Historically organisations implemented Enterprise Content Management solutions out of the necessity to adhere with compliance policies, but in our modern digital era the question is; has this now become a barrier to innovation and is ECM actually inhibiting opportunities to extract the tangible value from information assets.

  • Ashley Madison blasted over poor security measures

    Dating web site Ashley Madison was the target of a data breach as a result of inappropriate security safeguards, according to findings of a joint investigation by Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) Daniel Therrien.