Industry Insider

  • HP’s $US10B play for Autonomy

    HP is set to hand over $US10 billion in cash to to acquire UK software giant Autonomy, a purchase that will see the company marketing a broad portfolio of overlapping document and records management and email archiving solutions.

  • Laserfiche ECM maps the way for super fund

    When Australian health industry superannuation fund, MAP Funds Management (MAP), went to market for a new document management solution, they found the answer to their legislative compliance and online document storage requirements in a Ricoh Laserfiche solution.

  • $250K grant for 3D search

    Australian 3D Search technology that transforms the online shopping experience by making it easier to sift through large amounts of visual data, has won a major Commercialisation Australia Proof of Concept Grant.

  • Generation “Gmail” the weakest link

    A recent international study commissioned by Mimecast found that 79 per cent of people send work emails from their personal email accounts, with 1 in 5 saying they do this on a regular basis, creating email archiving issues for compliance.

  • Is anybody listening to records managers? ANZ reader survey.

    Are you worried that the message about information and records management is not getting through to your colleagues? Do you spend your time devising strategies to encourage use of the corporate EDRMS but find its falling on deaf ears? Is email management or the lack of it causing sleepless nights? If you answered yes to any of the above, then relax, you’re not alone. An IDM survey of Australian and New Zealand records and information managers has found some common concerns at the top of everybody’s list.

  • 2012 launch for digital e-conveyancing in Australia

    The paper chase for law firms handling property sales in Australia could be over by 2012, according to the timeline announced for development of a national E-Conveyance platform. Accenture has been appointed to design and build the long-awaited initiative.

  • Case Study: Digital by Design

    SharePoint is delivering a collaborative enviornment for 900+ employees of international multidisciplinary design practice HASSELL, based in studios in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

  • QSuper takes a digital leap

    The boardroom tool of the future has arrived at QSuper where a SharePoint platform is now delivering sensitive company information each month on iPads.

  • Cloud gathers for Australian business

    A new survey of 200 Australian organisations found over a third are planning to take their disaster recovery and backup to the cloud within 12 months.