Industry Insider

  • Records & Information Managers: How to Leverage Your Skills in a Microsoft 365 World

    Life begins to unfurl around the world. Not only can we go outside to spend time with friends and family, but we’re also seeing a surge in people wanting to speak with us about how to improve their approaches to information management in Microsoft 365. The increase is not surprising at all as organisations are becoming more mature in their roll outs and are now needing to tackle issues like information retention.

  • Five Common Data Governance Misconceptions

    I’ve been doing data governance for a long time now. And it’s safe to say that time and time again, from organisation to organisation, I come across the same mistakes and misconceptions that are limiting organisation's chances of implementing data governance successfully.

  • Focus on accountability to prevent data breaches: OAIC

    As Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches scheme marks its fourth year of operation, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is urging organisations to put accountability at the centre of their information handling practices.

  • Quality assurance of PDF/A files? Let’s ask Beuth Verlag!

    Beuth Verlag, headquartered in Berlin, is part of the DIN Group and one of Germany's largest specialist information and knowledge service providers. Beuth publishes thousands of standards every year. With the two callas products, the publisher was able to significantly reduce the manual workload through a high degree of automation. Specifically, Beuth Verlag uses pdfaPilot and pdfToolbox, which validate PDF/A files and correct them as far as possible. The solutions rely on the same validation technology that Adobe has licensed from callas for the Preflight plug-in. At the same time, it ensures that the published DIN standards are compliant with the PDF/A ISO standard for long-term archiving.

  • The 6 Pitfalls of Business Process Automation

    McKinsey estimates that 25–46% of current work activities in Australia could be automated by 2030, helping to drive a renaissance in productivity, personal income and economic growth. Most organisations are aware of the benefits of business process automation (BPA) with over 80% of business leaders prioritising these initiatives but for every success story it seems there is a spectacular – or just disappointing – failure.

  • Why Context is King in Information Management

    Anyone who has spoken to me for more than a few minutes <insert apology here> knows how strongly I feel about the “in-place” management of information. “In-place” means that content is managed in the same location that it was created and is not moved to another location or database for its long-term management.

  • Data scientists reveal roadblocks to digital transformation

    Digital transformation has accelerated significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the extra demands on data scientists have revealed significant barriers to effective working and high levels of job dissatisfaction in some areas. For example, around four in 10 are dissatisfied with their company’s use of analytics and model deployment, while more than 20 barriers to effective working emerged, according to a survey of data scientists commissioned by SAS.

  • Why PDF matters to Information Governance

    February 17, 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of Global Information Governance Day (GIGD) and is an ideal time to reflect on the impact that the pandemic and changes in hybrid and fully-remote workforces has had on record keeping and good information governance practices.