Business Process & Workflow

Records and information managers seeking to improve the security and management of their data now have access to a new blueprint for successful information governance, a framework for organisations looking to define the roles, policies, processes and metrics required to properly manage the lifecycle of information, including creation, storage, access, and disposal. 

Digitalization, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning, but most CIOs do not feel prepared for this next era, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The survey showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating the core of IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future. The survey found that 51 percent of CIOs are concerned that the digital torrent is coming faster than they can cope and 42 percent don't feel that they have the talent needed to face this future.  

Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning (DSDIP) has been named a winner of the 2014 Gartner Business Process Management Excellence Awards for the Asia Pacific region.  

Far too often I have seen knowledge and information management projects fall short of achieving their full potential.

In organisations where the IT Department equates success for new ways of working with installing the software correctly, all the great stuff doesn't happen. Employees ignore the new capabilities and keep using current tools to get their work done in historical ways. Or they make a minimal effort to comply with the IT mandate to "use SharePoint," but do so only for the most mundane of work processes. Although the organization has at its disposal new capabilities that offer transformative possibilities, they are relegated to insignificance through lack of imagination.

Objective Corporation has announced the launch of a new solution for creating, approving and publishing business critical documents, the Objective Content Creation (ECC) Platform. 

Pieter van Schalkwyk is serious about helping businesses do better at getting process work done. That's the official motto of XMPro, the company he founded and is now running as CEO. IDM sat down with Pieter to ask what the company is doing to take its own flavour of workflow software and methodology to the world. Initially founded in Sydney, XMPro now has offices and customers in the US and UK, and has recently opened its US HQ in Dallas.

50 percent of businesses still use paper-based payment processes, missing out on the efficiency, cash management and process visibility benefits of automated systems, according to global research* commissioned by ASG Software Solutions.

Specifically built to work with SharePoint 2013, K2 for SharePoint is a new tool for building and running business applications within SharePoint -- using forms, workflow, data and reports.

Peoplebank, Australia's largest IT and specialist recruiter, has signed a contract to use Secured Signing's digital signing process to give it an edge in getting its contractors signed up and onto client projects.  Peoplebank has begun rolling out the service and early adopters are finding savings of around an hour-and-a-half with each new contractor placement.

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