Industry Insider

Gayan Peiris sorts through the many options available for enterprise search with SharePoint.  Gayan Peiris is a SharePoint Technology Specialist (TSP) at Microsoft Australia who has written many articles, reviews and columns for various online publications and has been a contributing author for a SharePoint book. He is a frequent speaker at Microsoft conferences on SharePoint technology. 

Queenslanders will be able to look online to view the performance of their hospital emergency departments under a new initiative from Queensland Health.

Document management and data storage is one of the top ten technology strategies for CIOs in 2010, says analyst Gartner.

Document process automation company Esker has announced the addition of a new subsidiary in Malaysia. Esker has been established in Singapore since 2006, and the Malaysian opening falls in line with the company’s 2010 strategic development plan to strengthen its presence in Asia.

Health fund NIB has signed a five year contract to outsource its manual back office activities and automate the processing of high volume paper transactions to a partnership between Salmat, Civica and Dataract.

Top Image Systems, the Israeli developer of intelligent document recognition, and Raven Imaging, a specialist in the supply and maintenance of imaging software, hardware and storage equipment in South Africa, have been selected by Computershare South Africa to process, index and classify more than 30 million documents and convert them into electronic records.

Cisco has released the results of a third-party global study designed to assess how organizations use consumer social networking tools to collaborate externally, revealing the need for stronger governance and IT involvement.

TechnologyOne has announced swift success with a new software product designed for government organisations that manage grants, winning contracts worth more than $500,000 in the initial launch phase.

Australia's billion dollar research giant the CSIRO is underway with a comprehensive program to migrate 28 different intranet platforms in use across the organisation to the Sitecore web CMS.

SharePoint is going to work in the business of catching crooks in Australia via a new extranet being commissioned by CrimTrac, the Commonwealth body devoted to improved information sharing between federal and state police and law enforcement agencies.