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By tapping the power of the Internet of Things and business intelligence, South Australia’s leading convenience retailer, Peregrine Corporation, plans to enhance their customers’ experience and mitigate everyday business risks.

When organisations want to buy an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS), they often believe it will solve their records management problems. They find they have lots of paper. They have lots of electronic documents. They have shared drives that are full and disorganised.

Traditional enterprise content management providers are struggling to deal with the demands of today’s information workers.  If data is the new oil, then the current approach to ECM has only managed to scratch the surface of what people need.

Australia is lagging the US in its approach to information governance, placing enterprises and individuals at risk according to Susan Bennett, co-founder of Information Governance ANZ, a new think tank that aims to lift the profile of information governance and spur enterprises into action.

We have moved from an era in IT where the relational database management system was the one-size-fits-all technology, where data being used for informational purposes was solely sourced from in-house corporate databases that were rigorously defined, structured and well within the span of control of IT. 

Organsations habitually over-retain information, especially unstructured electronic information, for many reasons. However, many organisations simply have not addressed what to do with this data so fall back on relying on individual employees to decide what should be kept and for how long and what should be disposed of.

The concept of a fully enabled digital work environment, or digital workplace, has been a hot topic over the last few years. This concept of individuals moving around their offices unencumbered and working externally without barriers is becoming more and more a reality.

Historically organisations implemented Enterprise Content Management solutions out of the necessity to adhere with compliance policies, but in our modern digital era the question is; has this now become a barrier to innovation and is ECM actually inhibiting opportunities to extract the tangible value from information assets.

Dating web site Ashley Madison was the target of a data breach as a result of inappropriate security safeguards, according to findings of a joint investigation by Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, and Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) Daniel Therrien.

The number of services that want to help you make your product smarter has exploded over the last year. If you’re planning a product, it can seem impossible to understand this new field.