Industry Insider

  • AEC looks to capture its future

    The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has flagged a move to electronic capture and processing of more than 150,000 enrolment forms  a month it currently receives on paper and manually processes.

  • Staying compliant in the SharePoint cloud

    A government organisation in New Zealand has overcome the challenge of moving its SharePoint deployment to the cloud while remaining in step with the tough legislative guidelines of the NZ Public Records Act.

  • Can technology classify records better than a human?

    Can information managers learn from the way that search tools are increasingly being used to support legal e-Discovery practices? Andrew Warland asks the question and looks at the replated problem of  classifying digital records.

  • Can predictive coding be used to classify records?

    Recommind has produced a short booklet titled ‘Predictive Coding for Dummies’, available as a free, 36-page, pdf. The Dummies Guide notes that ‘Real living, breathing legal experts are essential to predictive coding.

  • DAM strategy pays dividend for Shrine of Remembrace

    Digital asset management provides both users and systems administrators organisational control and insight over various media file types and their associated metadata. Without a properly employed digital asset management system, file creation and storage can quickly become a jumbled maze of file system hierarchies, and search and retrieve strategies can be quick to fail.

  • NZ Council automates with Laserfiche Rio

    Hurunui District Council is a New Zealand local government authority for a rural population of 10,000 located 30 minutes north of Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand. Two years ago the council identified a need to replace its ageing Alchemy document management system with a new solution that included electronic records management capabilities.

  • Mining giant builds future with a Microsoft cloud

    Mining giant Fortescue Metals Group is just over 12 months into its rollout of Office 365 as one of Microsoft's Australian launch customers. Fortescue’s initial deployment of Office 365 to 2000 users in 2011 has now ballooned to 6000 staff and contractors, as their rapid expansion has propelled a huge growth in staffing.

  • OBS takes on TRIM integration

    SharePoint solution provider OBS has moved to broaden its offerings for records management with the addition of support for HP TRIM.