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What is IDM? Information & Data Manager (IDM) is a dedicated magazine and Web site covering collaboration and information management for Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. It offers expert insight, case studies and essential updates on topics such as: • imaging & workflow • enterprise content management • document & records management • robotic process automation • knowledge management • compliance & ediscovery In every issue, there is a major feature on software & systems, analysing contemporary approaches to how information management is being applied in different industry sectors. IDM readership is across all levels of government, banking, finance, legal, health, architecture, engineering the media and manufacturing. In addition to our bimonthly magazine, IDM keeps its readership informed via breaking news at www.idm.net.au and a valued weekly email newsletter. Source

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Ancestry.com Bets $US450 Million on Record Digitisation

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Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history platform, has cut a record digitisation process that once took nine months of manual indexing down to under nine days, using proprietary handwriting-recognition AI to help push its collection past 71 billion records and restore subscription revenue growth after years of stagnation.
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From Task Bots to Goal-Driven Agents: Capgemini

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The core leadership question for enterprise AI is no longer "can we build an agent?" but "can we delegate decisions safely at scale?", according to a new Capgemini point of view on agentic process automation. The consultancy argues organisations that succeed treat agentic automation as an operating-model change rather than a one-time tooling upgrade.
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EDRM Opens Public Comment on Major Model Update

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The reference model that has defined electronic discovery practice since 2005 is being redrawn for the AI era, with information governance as its foundation, disposition elevated to a core phase and analysis extended across the entire discovery lifecycle. Public comment on EDRM 2.0 is open until 30 July 2026. The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) organisation opened comment on 30 June.
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AI Vendor Lock-In Now a Business Continuity Risk

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Most enterprises are locked into AI systems they cannot easily change, and the overwhelming majority do not fully understand their own AI dependencies, a new global study warns. The findings elevate AI sovereignty from a technical concern to a business continuity issue. The Calculus of AI Sovereignty study, from the IBM Institute for Business Value in collaboration with Oxford Economics, surveyed 1,000 senior executives across 16 countries and 17 industries between February and April 2026.
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Gartner Flags Governance Risks in AI Agents

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By 2028, 70 per cent of US healthcare payers will address workflow, data and service automation using no-code agent builders, cutting manual workloads by 50 per cent, Gartner predicts. The forecast signals a broader shift: AI agent development moving from centralised IT projects to business-led automation, with governance the deciding factor between value and risk. The prediction appears in the Gartner report Innovation Insight: No-Code Agent Builders Improve Efficiency for U.S. Healthcare Payers.
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AI Supercharges Messaging Scams, Global Study Warns

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More than half of successful messaging scams are completed within 30 minutes of first contact, and one in seven is over in less than five minutes, according to a new Kaspersky investigation into the global messaging scam economy. The average loss per victim is US$733. The Great Messaging Heist report, published by Kaspersky in 2026, is billed as the first study to capture the end-to-end reality of messaging-based scams - what happens after a scam message lands, rather than how often scams occur.
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Law Firm Data Sprawl in Sights of New Partnership

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Law firms across Australia, New Zealand and the wider APAC region gain a combined consulting and technology path for finding and governing client data that has leaked beyond the document management system, under a new strategic partnership announced for the legal sector.
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EQS Embeds AI Layer Into Compliance Platform

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Compliance teams using EQS Group's platform now have an AI layer, Q by EQS, operating directly inside the system of record with access to case data, disclosures, policy libraries, due diligence results and workflow history. AI-powered whistleblowing triage, case classification and policy assistance are available now, with agentic capabilities to follow later this year.
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Call for Enforceable NZ Cyber Security Laws

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New Zealand should move from voluntary cyber security guidelines to enforceable legislation, including mandatory reporting of major cyber attacks, according to a new policy push that would shift responsibility for digital safety from individuals to the systems and platforms they rely on. The Tech Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) released its Trust and Safety position paper on 30 June, alongside a discussion paper on social media age assurance, as part of its 2026 policy programme.
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Realtime Data Gaps Stall Enterprise AI

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Nearly three-quarters of IT leaders say a lack of real-time data infrastructure is stalling their efforts to scale AI, and only 32 per cent have agentic AI in production, according to Confluent's 2026 Data Streaming Report. The fifth annual report, produced with Freeform Dynamics and Radma Research, surveyed 4,625 IT leaders across 14 countries including Australia.
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