INDUSTRY NEWS
Modernising information governance for Australian government SETTING A NEW STANDARD
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ive years ago, the Department of Finance kicked off the Digital Records Transformation Initiative (DRTI), which focused on a cloud-first strategy for the Australian federal government. For records management, it aimed to implement a whole-ofgovernment solution that emphasised federated management of information to extend control across multiple data sources including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Online, Teams, legacy systems, and file shares. Records and information management service provider RecordPoint won out in all three tenders issued through this initiative: the Digital Transformation
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“BY MODERNISING THE WAY IN WHICH GOVERNMENT SERVICES DATA IS MANAGED AND RECORDED, MORE EFFICIENT AND TIMELY SERVICES CAN BE PROVIDED FOR AUSTRALIANS,”
Authority (DTA), the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC). The chosen solution, Records365, takes a manage-inplace approach that keeps day-today workflows unchanged for end users, eliminating the hurdles of user training and adoption. The contract established between the DTA and RecordPoint enables all Australian Government agencies to purchase Records365 without an approach to market through a “piggyback” clause.
