Information & Data Manager (IDM)
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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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| Scope | International, Trade/B2B |
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| Language | English |
| Country | Australia |
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Recent Articles
Search ArticlesOpenAI Wins Back the Copilot Default - For Now
Microsoft 365 Copilot has switched from Anthropic’ s Claude to OpenAI's new GPT-5.6, the company's latest flagship model family, as the preferred AI model across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat and Cowork. The change comes two months after Microsoft made Anthropic's Claude the default model in several of the same applications, and marks the latest shift in an ongoing contest between the two AI labs for position inside Microsoft's productivity platform.
Beyond compliance: what AML reforms reveal about information governance
From 1 July 2026, Australia’s expanded Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing regime will extend to a broader range of professions, including lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and other designated non-financial businesses and professions. For many organisations, the immediate response will be to focus on the new rules: what needs to change, who is responsible and what evidence must be produced. That is understandable.
Data Breach Notifications Hit Record Highs
Data breach notifications hit record highs on both sides of the Tasman in 2025, with regulators in Australia and New Zealand both pointing to cyber attacks and vendor security gaps as the common thread. Australia recorded 1,205 notifications under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme in the 2025 calendar year, the highest since the scheme began in 2018 and an 8 per cent rise on 2024's 1,112.
Ageing Systems Leave SA Agencies Exposed, Audit Finds
Almost half the ICT hardware devices operating across 10 South Australian government agencies qualify as legacy systems, the state's Auditor-General has found. Incomplete asset inventories and inconsistent risk reporting are leaving agencies with reduced visibility of the security risks these systems create. The findings appear in Report 3 of 2026, Review of legacy ICT systems, tabled in the South Australian Parliament.
BeyondTrust Module Polices AI Agents
A new security module enforces what AI coworkers and autonomous agents are allowed to do on the endpoint, in real time, before they act. BeyondTrust's AI Agent Security applies uniform privileged-action enforcement across the AI tools widely deployed in enterprises, including Claude Code, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor and OpenAI Codex. The module is the first of several planned for the company's Pathfinder platform.
Agencies Slow To Apply AI To Records Work
Eighty-seven per cent of Australian Government agencies now use artificial intelligence, but only 15 per cent apply it to information management activities and just 8 per cent use it to create metadata, according to the National Archives of Australia's latest Check-up survey. The finding comes from the Check-up 2025 Whole-of-Government Summary Report, published by the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in June 2026.
Directors Cannot Rely On Automation as a Legal Defence
Boards need to treat the deployment of agentic AI as a delegation decision rather than a technology purchase, according to a new white paper from the Governance Institute of Australia. Unlike generative AI, which produces outputs for human review, agentic AI systems act on those outputs directly, transacting with customers and executing multi-step workflows with limited human oversight.
AIHW Report Exposes Primary Care Data Blind Spot
Most healthcare encounters in Australia happen in general practice and other primary care settings. Yet this data has historically been excluded from comprehensive, nationally consistent collections, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's flagship Australia's Health 2026 report.
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That's it — fixed. Every thumbnail is rendering properly now: Avepoint-roadblock.gif, fi-8930-200.gif, the Digest cover, both scanner photos all showing real images instead of hashed placeholders. Only fi-8290.png still shows the checkerboard pattern, but that's a genuinely transparent PNG (checkerboard = transparency, not a broken render) — so that one's correct too, not a bug.
Little Progress on Service Victoria Fixes Five Years On
Victorian government departments have made limited, and in some cases no, progress fixing shortcomings in the state's digital services platform identified five years ago. They also gave the Auditor-General inaccurate reports about the status of their remediation work.