Industry Insider

  • Simple ways to achieve better SharePoint workflows

    As Manager of SharePoint Consultants at Rackspace Hosting, Laura Rogers works extensively with SharePoint Designer workflows, and building no-code business solutions. IDM asked Laura, who is presenting at the upcoming Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne on “Seven Pro Tips to Become a Workflow Rock Star” How did you get started in SharePoint workflows?

     

  • Report shines a light on dark data

    A global study of information management conducted for Veritas Technologies has found that that 52% of all information currently stored and processed by organisations around the world is considered ‘dark’ data, whose value is unknown.

  • Iron Mountain ACCC deadline approaches

    Monday March 21 looms as the closing date for submissions to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Iron Mountain’s planned divestment of its existing Australian business, designed to overcome the regulator’s concerns over its A$2.7 billion buyout of Recall Holdings.

  • KPMG turns to IBM Watson

    Consulting firm KPMG has announced plans to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to its professional services offerings. The agreement, including a focus on auditing services, builds on several recent KPMG initiatives demonstrating the promise of cognitive technologies.

  • When the PDF will be a thing of the past

    Anyone working in today’s business world is familiar with the Portable Document Format (PDF), and for good reason. PDFs offer a great convenience. They can be taken on the road, read on any device, emailed to other people and easily printed.

  • Man or machine: The rise of automation in business

    We now live in what Gartner calls an ‘algorithm driven’ world. Everything from ordering a taxi to finding a date involves complex algorithms, whether you know it or not. The world is shaped by algorithms which predict and execute against defined rules in order to automatically carry out every day processes.