Industry Insider

Global defence contractor BAE Systems chose Australia as the location of a pilot deployment of SharePoint 2010, known as Project Olympia, spearheading a rollout of a new document and records management system to a large part of its 100,000 strong workforce across the globe. BAE Systems Australia is manufacturing critical airframe components for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (pictured)  being produced for the US Navy and Marine Corps, the UK, Canada and Australia.

The worldwide market for hardcopy peripherals is in the midst of profound change as emphasis shifts from simple print devices to more comprehensive document solutions that increase efficiencies and control costs associated with printing in business environments. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide document solutions software revenues will grow from $US3.4 billion in 2010 to $US5.5 billion in 2015.

Two new global records management standards have been published by the International Organization for Standardization (IS0), promising to help prevent failures in corporate governance.

A worldwide electronics manufacturing services provider has selected ReadSoft’s SAP-certified invoice automation solution to streamline its accounts payable operations and enable greater processing efficiencies across the enterprise. The agreement is worth over 440,000 USD and was signed during the fourth quarter of 2011.

Many organisations have special protocols for document handling in order to comply with governmen regulation, conform to industry standards, or adhere to their own internal rules of corporate governance. By Greg Milliken, President of M-Files, Inc

A new report has found that technology is accelerating email response times, creating unrealistic expectations, email overload, error and costly workplace stress.

Australian Software developer Intelledox has delivered a deployment of its intelligent document creation system into New Zealand’s transportation sector for the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA).

The Asia-Pacific represents the fastest growing regional market for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, growing at about 15% with Australia and Korea at the lead, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA).

When a critical financial server at Brisbane’s Anglican Church Grammar School failed suddenly, its rapid and effortless recovery prompted Network Systems Administrator Gavin Rees to go out and buy 28 StorageCraft ShadowProtect licences next day.

The Victorian Ombudsman has delivered a scathing report on the practices of the Victorian public sector in managing information & communication technology enabled (ICT-enabled) projects, claiming inefficient practices have cost government in excess of $1.4 billion.