As President of the Information Intelligence Group at EMC, Mark Lewis directs the strategy for a division that employs more than 2600 people. He develops the global giant’s strategy and solutions for enterprise search, document management, collaboration, archiving and ediscovery. While in Australia for a recent visit to EMC’s customers in the financial and government sector, which include the Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Generation and BHP Billiton, Lewis outlined his thoughts on where enterprise content management is headed.
ECM’s main challenge isn’t the organising and storing of content, but rather liberating information contained in documents and records for productive use, writes Abie Speers.
One of the world’s largest mining groups, Anglo American has decided on AvePoint’s DocAve Replicator to assist with its rollout of a SharePoint intranet portal and collaboration platform.
Australia has witnessed a lot of discussion of the brave new world of Government 2.0, but there has been little attention paid to the real benefits of introducing electronic invoicing by government suppliers.
Victoria’s South East Water is moving to replace paper-based systems with Motion F5v rugged Tablet PCs for its Trade Waste team, with several other departments now testing the technology.
Growing use of spatial technology and satellite imagery for line of business applications has led the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) to overhaul its storage platform with NetApp.
A survey of information governance practices and challenges in Global 1000 companies has found that defensible disposal is turning out to be a key objective.
NSW Government shared services agency Service First has selected ReadSoft solutions to automate approximately 160,000 invoices per year in an agreement valued at over $A750K.
