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Government and FRC consider cutting financial reporting burden for small businesses

By ECM Plus staff

ECM Plus +++ Proposals to simplify the financial and corporate reporting requirements for the smallest businesses are the subject of a new ‘Discussion Paper’ published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (formerly DTI) and the Financial Reporting Council.

Dubbed ‘Simpler Reporting for Smaller Businesses’, the discussion paper sets out ideas to reduce the amount of reporting micro-entities would be required to undertake.

FRC said this could benefit around 5 million businesses and result in considerable cost savings in relation to the preparation of their accounts. Continue reading →

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Filed under Compliance, Corporate Governance, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), Industry News, Regulatory Compliance, Reporting, XBRL - eXtensible Business Reporting Language

Riots planned via 'social' networks

BY ROBERT NEWKET

ECM Plus +++ The shocking news that Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry company Research In Motion have all indicated that they will be resisting attempts to shut them down in future riots – as conduits of violence, crime and riot planning – is a sad day for British social justice.

The many businesses and homes targeted by the rioters should act as a testament to why these disgusting ‘social’ media conduits are past their sell-by-date, not fit for purpose, abused and should now be shut down completetely before they can be allowed to do any more damage.

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Filed under Industry News, Social Content Management, Social Content Marketing, Social Engagement, UGC - User-generated content

Content creators swoon as CADAC launches ‘killer’ digital console for live installation applications

By ECM Plus staff

ECM Plus +++ Cadac has just launching a new digital live production console, CDC Eight, the British console company’s third console design in a year. Continue reading →

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Filed under Content Creation, Digital Media Management (DMM), Vendor News

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By ROB PRINZO

The end of August marks the end of summer vacation and the beginning of planning and budgeting season. One small problem: the economic sluggishness that was supposed to be behind us has reared its ugly head once again. With wild swings in the market, who can’t help but feel a bit skittish.

Nevertheless, you want to move your initiatives forward and you’ll undoubtedly be asked for your plan regardless of funding limitations. But how do you prioritize the list of projects that have accumulated over the last year and develop a strategy to move forward in this economic environment? Continue reading →

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Filed under Budgeting, Features, Planning & Forecasting, Project Management

AES: Drowning or waving?

Researchers identify first flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard

BY ECM PLUS STAFF

ECM Plus +++ Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm.

According to cryptanalysts, they managed to come up with a clever new attack that can recover the secret key four times easier than anticipated by experts. The attack is a result of a long-term cryptanalysis project carried out by Andrey Bogdanov (K.U.Leuven, visiting Microsoft Research at the time of obtaining the results), Dmitry Khovratovich (Microsoft Research), and Christian Rechberger (ENS Paris, visiting Microsoft Research). Continue reading →

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Filed under Business Risk, Content Protection, Content Security, Industry News, Information security, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Security Content Management (SCM)

Vindicia CEO Gene Hoffman

Dashboarding, email integration and marketing capabilities for CashBox billing

By ECM Plus staff

ECM Plus +++ Vindicia, providers of SaaS billing has launched new marketing capabilities for its CashBox SaaS billing solution. Cashbox’ new dashboard applications aim to help digital merchants identify key trends in their customer base and make better business decisions. A new integration feature provides native integration into common email systems, beginning with Responsys’ Interact Suite. Continue reading →

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Filed under Billing & Customer Care Systems (BCCS), Marketing operations management, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), Vendor News

Power shifting online as established party support crumbles

Power to the people as Internet becoming ‘mainstream’ in political campaigning

BY ECM PLUS STAFF

ECM Plus +++ Looks like the era of the established poltical party is drawing to a close as cyper-campaigning takes over the reins of political power.

According to new research from the University of Manchester, the internet is challenging the dominance of traditional media as a campaign tool, despite the public’s renewed attachment to TV through the 2010 British General Election’s mainstream left-right paradigm party leader ‘debates’. Continue reading →

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Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform available with free trial for enterprise developers and architects

BY PAUL QUIGLEY

ECM Plus +++ Software giant Adobe has just taken the wraps off a new trial of its latest Digital Enterprise Platform and first set of solutions for Customer Experience Management. Continue reading →

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Filed under Enterprise Content Management, Vendor News

Riot Act protection extended to the max

Building and content insurance scheme extended to take into account businesses and communities

By ECM Plus staff

ECM Plus +++ According to reports, the Riot Act police compensation schemes will operate as normal and the insurance industry said it had promised to use its expertise to help the government and police implement the scheme.

ABI said they will be supporting the extension to the maximum of 42 days the amount of time claims can be made under the scheme.

ABI said it was revising its estimated figure of claims likely to be paid out by the insurance industry to be over £200 million. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business continuity, Content Protection, Content Security, Disaster Recovery, Industry News, Policy Management

Call for independent overhaul of jobsworth training

£275 million a year ‘wasted’ on ineffectual training, is “the tip of the iceberg”

By ECM Plus staff

ECM Plus +++ A new report has exposed that £275 million is being wasted on ineffectual training courses by the British Civil Service which has been described as ‘the tip of the iceberg of Britain’s culture of poorly-targeted staff development’. Continue reading →

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Filed under Asset management, Corporate Governance, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), Industry News, Policy Management

Insurers: claim period to be extended

Association of British Insurers provide guidance on legal position of riot compensation

By ECM Plus staff

ECM Plus +++ According to the Association on British Insurers, on current estimates insured losses and damage suffered by individuals and British businesses are likely to be well over £100 million. Continue reading →

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Filed under Asset management, Business Continuity, Business Risk, Content Protection, Content Security, Contingency Planning, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), Industry News, Risk Analysis, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Security Content Management (SCM)

RIM's Blackberry service under the microscope again

BREAKING NEWS: Encrypted Blackberry