Industry Insider

Multinational Australian energy giant Santos is revolutionising its information management practices with a company-wide deployment of SharePoint 2010.

Kofax has entered into an OEM agreement with and made a $US500,000 minority investment in MobiFlex, developer of the  ViziApps platform for smartphones and tablet computers.

Community and aged care services provider, Wesley Mission Brisbane, has adopted a Kofax Capture platform for processing up to 40,000 supplier invoices per year, following its investment in TechnologyOne Financials

Latrobe City Council has become the first Victorian Local Government organisation to acquire Open Windows eTender Management, Contract Management, Grant & Procurement Management Systems on the Microsoft Windows Azure Contracts Cloud.

Kroll Ontrack, the provider of information management, data recovery, and legal technology products and services, has announced its annual Top 10 Data Disasters for 2011. From human error to natural disaster, this annual list of real data loss situations compiled by Ontrack Data Recovery engineers from more than 30 Kroll Ontrack offices around the globe, reveals data loss is often inevitable, but not necessarily permanent. 

Perth-based mining AGC has consolidated its print fleet with 30 Ricoh multifunction devices (MFDs) across all the company’s sites, backed by Ricoh’s team of specialists who developed and implemented the customised integration.

ISYS Search Software has announced the release of its next generation Enterprise 10.0 product, promising enterprise search at speeds up to four times faster than previous versions. A free trial is available at www.isys-10.com

Financial systems are becoming increasingly interconnected, within businesses and on a global scale, creating a network effect whereby any changes made to these systems directly or indirectly impact wider parts of the business. This increased interdependence is impeding cash flow visibility and confidence, according to a report by Basware.

Deloitte has announced the research findings from its 3rd annual "Tech Trends 2012" report, which identifies and predicts the top 10 emerging and disruptive technologies that are expected to play a crucial role in how businesses are anticipated to operate globally in 2012 and beyond.   

Kofax has acquired Singularity for $US48 million, an Ireland-based  provider of business process management (BPM) software and case management solutions