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An information management policy clearly lays out what kind of data should be kept, what kind should be deleted and establishes a sound, objective method to apply to company-wide data. So, how do you get started? The following steps can provide a basic guide for setting up your information management policy.

Enterprise search has a new contender with a group of ex-Google employees promising "a new playbook for the C-suite and IT managers focused on data as an asset critical to their corporate success."

Companies in most Western countries must take extreme care to protect any sensitive information they store relating to employees or customers. In Australia and New Zealand, we may soon be held to even higher standards.

Good Technology has announced the appointment of Ross Ford as Government Account Director. Based in Canberra, Ford will focus on servicing the needs of Good’s Federal Government customers.

Digital records management is changing faster than alphabetized boxes or metal filing cabinets can keep up with. The definition of a “record” will continue expanding in direct proportion to the technologies we adapt. This is a good thing, as business relationships today require a certain amount of agility, but it’s also a cause of anxiety.

The role of the Health Information Manager is no easy task. Like a conductor leading an orchestra, they must lead a wide range of health information initiatives – across multiple departments – to keep their health system in tune. And with the healthcare data explosion – driven by the Electronic Medical Record, and clinical imaging – there is a huge imperative to manage increasingly diverse types of information.

Scanning data from paper forms is one way to capture information, however other alternatives exist with solutions such as the digital pen and software that can recognise data as it is handwritten. 

ISACA, a nonprofit, independent association of more than 100,000 governance, risk, security and assurance professionals worldwide, has issued new guidance outlining key questions for boards of directors to ask to ensure their enterprise’s cloud initiative is in line with business objectives and the organisation’s risk tolerance.

Australian organisations are forecast to spend almost A$70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013, an increase of 10.4 percent over 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide spending on BPMS is expected to reach US$2.8 billion, up 9.5 percent compared to 2012.

Index Engines, an enterprise data management and archiving company, is looking to provide a cost and time effective solution to the Big Data storage crisis with its latest release, the Catalyst Data Profiling Engine.