Okay, so you’ve automated your business processes. Purchase Requisitions are online and being approved in SAP ERP. Customer discounts are being processed and approved in Salesforce.com. New Employee appointments are being managed and approved in SuccessFactors. Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) requests are being approved through a SharePoint-based document approval workflow. No more paper! Automated workflow notification emails and tasks are being generated at an amazing rate. Job Done!

How does a global organisation with more than 9000 employees deal with document management, especially as it’s not regarded as a particularly cool topic. When staff at Head Office alone are generating more than a million documents a year, the challenge is formidable, and the idea of a solution becomes more attractive. For growing mining company MMG the response was to integrate OpenText Content Server and SharePoint with the aim of achieving an integrated search, collaboration and information lifecycle management solution.

Information management firm Glentworth has appointed Neil Makepeace as Chief Executive Officer. Director and senior partner of the firm, Makepeace’s appointment comes during a restructure of the growing Glentworth Board of Directors, with founder Neil Glentworth appointed as executive chairman.

The big news from the keynote presentation at the Office 365 Summit in Sydney this week was that there is no big news. We sat on the edge of our seats waiting for the long awaited Australian Office 365 services to be announced and got (drum roll) nothing. However, this is the cloud nothing stays the same for long. By day two of the summit, everything had changed. The Office 365 (and CRM online) services were now live in Australia and the sun had come out.