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OpenText Content Manager 24.3 is Released

Content Manager 23.4 has some exciting new and enhanced features.

July 31, 2024

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FYB and Archive360 Announce Strategic Partnership for Enhanced Information Governance Solutions

FYB is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Archive360, an industry leader in cloud-based solutions for application decommissioning, data retirement and data governance across enterprise systems.

July 18, 2024

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FYB AI Standards and Principles

At FYB, we are committed to leading the way in ethical artificial intelligence practices within the information governance and content management industries. As we continue to integrate AI technologies into our products and services, it becomes imperative to uphold the highest standards of ethics and responsibility. Our AI Ethical Standards and Principles are designed to ensure that all AI-driven solutions developed or implemented by FYB are transparent, fair, and beneficial to all stakeholders. The principles will serve as a guiding framework that not only aligns with our core values, but also shapes our approach to innovation. By embedding these ethical principles into the heart of our operations, we aim to enhance trust, foster responsible use of technology, and ensure that our AI capabilities contribute positively to our client's success and the wider community.

March 6, 2024

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Australian Government Partners with Microsoft to Explore Safe and Responsible Use of AI

The Australian Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, has announced an exciting collaboration with Microsoft to explore the safe and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the public service. This partnership aims to leverage AI technology to enhance productivity, drive innovation, and deliver better government services to the Australian people. Let's delve into the details of this groundbreaking collaboration.

November 17, 2023

Technology

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Improving Information Management Maturity: Assessing Your Practice in Victoria

In today's digital age, effective information management is crucial for government agencies to ensure accountability, transparency, and efficient operations. At FYB we recognise the importance of this and our Information Management Maturity Assessment is a process to help organisations assess their current practices and strive for improvement.

September 20, 2023

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Build Data Trust with Voltage Fusion

Data trust refers to the confidence and assurance that an organisation's data is reliable, secure, and can be effectively utilised. It involves having trust in the quality, accuracy, and accessibility of data to make informed decisions and drive business outcomes. Trust in data is vital because it enables organisations to rely on data-driven insights and use them effectively.

August 30, 2023

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Compliant Drawings Management with FYB Drawings2CM

Managing technical, electrical, and architectural drawings can be a challenging task, especially when it comes to ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. That's where FYB Drawings2CM comes in, an intuitive web application that enables users to upload, view, and manage drawings stored within OpenText Content Manager.

June 8, 2023

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How to implement an effective policy and procedure portal

Policies and procedures are an important part of your organisation, they help define the standard for employees and outline acceptable actions or processes throughout their business activities. Read on to discover our top tips for implementing a policy and procedure portal like FYB DocUControl and why you should adopt one in the first place.

April 14, 2023

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FYB 365|2CM vs Content Manager 10.1 Teams Integration

When given the task to find a solution to ensure Microsoft 365 is meeting your compliance requirements, you might start your research with Content Manager 10.1 Teams Integration. If you're interested in what else is out there and a solution that was first to market of it's kind, you've come to the right place. FYB 365|2CM enables you to integrate more than just Microsoft Teams, the app automatically transfers information from SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and Network Shares into Micro Focus' Content Manager to streamline the storage and management of your information.

March 15, 2023

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Microsoft Teams governance out of control? You're not alone.

See how FYB 365|2CM can get you back in control of Microsoft Teams by automatically transferring information from Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Network Shares into Micro Focus’ Content Manager.

October 6, 2022

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Federated Searching for Content Manager and Microsoft 365 with FYB Explorezel

Developing your own federated search for Content Manager and Microsoft 365 can be complex and time consuming, with FYB Explorezel getting up and running is seamless. The intuitive search can easily be embeded directly into a webpage (e.g. SharePoint) to bring federated searching into any of your solutions.

September 27, 2022

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DocUControl - A solution for the whole team

Document control is the drafting, review, approval and publication process of your organisational policies, procedures and work instructions. The process will effect a wide range of departments and team members so when it comes to selecting a Quality Management System to support this process it's going to impact the whole team in different ways. FYB DocUControl leverages Micro Focus Content Manager to deliver a seamless and efficient solution for the publication of quality documentation, so there's a place for everyone in the document control process.

August 18, 2022

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FYB Mediazel - It's not just for the marketing team

When it comes to implementing and using a Digital Asset Management solution like FYB Mediazel, it's important to understand it benefits the entire business and not just the marketing team. We've outlined 4 different user types and the benefits of using FYB Mediazel for each.

August 4, 2022

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Your Microsoft 365 Toolkit for Content Manager

Kickstart your collaboration experience using Microsoft 365 with the confidence that you are capturing records in Content Manager to meet your recordkeeping requirements. Our Microsoft 365 Toolkit arms you with the resources, apps and connectors to deliver a better user experience with the confidence that your information is being appropriately managed within Content Manager.

July 14, 2022

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Using Mediazel for Brand Asset Management

Brand guidelines are designed to keep your team in check and consistent when it comes to your branding. If they don't have easy access to your brand assets this is where consistency can go sideways. FYB Mediazel is a great resource to manage your media assets but have you ever considered taking it up a notch to manage your brand assets?

April 27, 2022

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FYB 365|2CM vs SharePoint Integration Module

When given the task to find a solution to ensure Microsoft 365 is meeting your compliance requirements, you might start your research with the SharePoint Integration Module. If you're interested in what else is out there you've come to the right place. FYB 365|2CM is an alternative to the SharePoint Integration Module that automatically transfers information from Microsoft 365 and Network Shares into Micro Focus Content Manager to streamline the storage and management of your information.

March 15, 2022

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Why choose FYB Mediazel over Google Photos?

The number one difference between FYB Mediazel and Google Photos is records compliance. Keeping all your images in google photos has the same level of compliance as a “My Images” folder on your desktop. Using FYB Mediazel alongside Content Manager ensures you are meeting records compliance and provides you with an intuitive interface to easily upload, manage and share your organisations media items.

March 3, 2022

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Managing controlled documents the easy way

Document control refers to the application of document management standards within an organisation to govern the creation, review, approval, distribution, and accessibility of documents.

February 23, 2022

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3 reasons you should be using Microsoft Teams and 365|2CM

The percentage of Australians working from home has jumped from 8 per cent to 40 per cent in the past two years. With most enjoying the transition and expecting work from home arrangements to continue throughout this year, why not ensure your team are productive and compliant by using Microsoft Teams with 365|2CM.

October 18, 2021

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What you might not know about Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365’s default, out-of-the-box configuration is not compliant with Australian recordkeeping standards or legislation, but this doesn't mean it can't be used in a way that would meet your records management needs.

September 23, 2021

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Why Invest in Dashboard and Reporting Tools?

Data is important to help your organisation establish baselines or goals to grow and continue momentum. Better understanding the data can help your organisation make better decisions, act more decisively, and cut down on resource waste.

March 29, 2021

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Information Governance and Microsoft 365

Maintaining information governance and compliance across multiple platforms can be challenging for many organisations. As users shift to Microsoft 365 to use applications such as Office, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint for the collaboration capabilities, organisations need to ensure they are capturing all the valuable information that is being created in these platforms. This is where it is important to have the right processes in place to reduce the strain on the Information Management Team.

August 3, 2020

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What is Digital Asset Management?

Digital Asset Management (DAM) enables organisations to upload, manage and share digital media assets such as photographs, illustrations, audio and video. The digital media assets are assigned metadata and in some cases the metadata can be automatically captured on upload of the media item.

July 6, 2020

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Integrating Microsoft Teams with Content Manager

FYB have been using Microsoft Teams for over a year, learning the insides and outsides of Teams, along with best way to deploy and implement the solution.

June 15, 2020

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How to implement Microsoft Teams and achieve Records Compliance

March 20, 2019

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What dashboards can I create in Reportilize?

Creating business dashboards in Micro Focus’ Content Manager wasn’t possible, so that’s why we introduced FYB Reportilize. The app allows users to easily create dashboards with Content Manager data that can viewed and shared across your organisation.

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Building Successful workflows with Power Automate and Power2CM

A workflow is a sequence of processes and tasks that follow a specific path necessary to complete the overall activity. In order to build successful workflows with Microsoft Power Automate and Power2CM, it's important to understand each element of a workflow and the types of workflows you can initiate.

June 28, 2022

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4 processes you should automate

Automating processes removes human intervention to decrease errors, increases task delivery speed and overall quality. With all these benefits, why aren't you automating more processes? Perhaps you need a few ideas. Let's discuss some manual processes that you can automate using Microsoft Power Automate, Content Manager and FYB Power2CM.

May 31, 2022

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How to automatically capture records of social media posts

Social media provides organisations with the opportunity to deliver services, consult and communicate with a wide variety of individuals across the globe. With this opportunity also comes the challenge of capturing and managing your social media records.

September 29, 2021

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3 Reasons you should integrate Salesforce and Content Manager

By integrating Salesforce with Content Manager, organisations can now share resources providing them with much greater operational visibility and most importantly compliance with recordkeeping requirements.

April 16, 2021

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OpenText Content Manager 24.3 is Released

Content Manager 23.4 has some exciting new and enhanced features.

July 31, 2024

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OpenText Content Manager 23.4 is Released

Content Manager 23.4 has some exciting enhancements in the areas of rendition, redaction, annotation, and viewing with OpenText Brava and Blazon technology. Here's some of the new features you can look forward to in CM23.4.

October 24, 2023

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OpenText (Micro Focus) Content Manager Version Comparison

Looking to upgrade your Content Manager environment but not sure how your version compares to the next? Check out the key feature differences from Content Manager 10 to 23.4.

October 24, 2023

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Australian Government Releases Long-Awaited Response to Privacy Act Review Report

Strong privacy protections are critical to building the security, confidence, and trust necessary to drive innovation and economic growth. That's why we are actively working with our customers on their data security to gain visibility on their high-risk data. The long-awaited response to the Privacy Act Review Report, released by the Australian Government on 28 September 2023, marks a significant milestone in the journey towards enhanced privacy protections.

October 13, 2023

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Improving Information Management Maturity: Assessing Your Practice in Victoria

September 20, 2023

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FYB and Greenfleet Partner for a Greener Future: Uniting Technology and Environmental Sustainability

FYB, a pioneer in information governance and content management technology, today embarks on an innovative partnership with Greenfleet, a leading Australian environmental not-for-profit organisation and carbon offset provider. This collaboration unifies technology and sustainability, demonstrating FYB's steadfast commitment to its mission, the environment, and the critical role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in global ESG (environmental, social, governance) efforts.

August 9, 2023

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OpenText Content Manager 23.3 is Released

This is the first release of the Content Manager 23.3 program series, which uses a new versioning that is compliant with OpenText product naming convention. Here's some of the new features you can look forward to in CM23.3.‍

August 2, 2023

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Updates to the Micro Focus Product Support Lifecycle Policy

OpenText has announced an updated Product Support Lifecycle policy and Extended Support program. The decision has been made to align the Micro Focus Product Support Lifecycle policy and Extended Support program with those of OpenText, providing a predictable and consistent experience for all customers.

May 16, 2023

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Meet the Australian standard for document control with FYB DocUControl

FYB DocuControl has undergone a significant review to ensure compliance with the SA/SNZ HB 168:2017 - Document Control Systems Standard and the application now has all features required to be a compliant controlled document system.

February 17, 2023

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FYB wins Micro Focus ANZ IM&G Partner FY22 H1 Award

The FYB team are proud winners of the Micro Focus ANZ IM&G Partner for the first half of 2022

June 15, 2022

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Micro Focus Content Manager 10.1

Content Manager 10.1 is here and introduces a number of new features that build upon those released in CM 10.

May 11, 2022

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Integrating Lawcadia and Content Manager with FYB Law2CM

Legal technology company Lawcadia and technology partner FYB announce the release of a deep integration with Micro Focus Content Manager (formerly TRIM) in response to high demand by Government legal teams for streamlined, connected solutions that enable them to maintain compliance with records management legislation.

November 11, 2021

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Micro Focus Content Manager Version Comparison

Looking to upgrade your Content Manager environment but not sure how your version compares to the next? Check out the key feature differences from Content Manager 9.2 to 10.1.

October 14, 2021

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FYB Software Testing Process

Have you ever wondered how we test our FYB Software solutions? Here's a little snippet of what's involved

September 9, 2021

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FYB Software Versioning - What does it all mean?

Ever wondered how FYB Software versioning works? Well we're here today to give you a brief rundown of each number and how they work.

September 7, 2021

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Micro Focus Content Manager 10 Patch 1

Micro Focus have released Content Manager 10 Patch 1, which includes a number of resolved issues that we think you'll look forward to.

August 23, 2021

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FYB 365|2CM Security Updates

FYB 365|2CM is compliant with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) Information Security Manual (ISM) - Guidelines for Software Development and ACSC Essential Eight guidelines.

July 29, 2021

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Micro Focus Content Manager Cloud and CM Select

Content Manager - On Premise, Private Cloud, Cloud, CMSaaS, CMPaaS, CM Select, Content Manager Select - What does it all mean?

July 26, 2021

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Australian Made Apps, Add-ins and Connectors for Micro Focus Content Manager

For more than 15 years, FYB have been producing high-quality, low cost, easy to use products that connect systems, people and information. All FYB apps, add-ins and connectors are certified Australian made and each proudly carries the ‘Australian Made’ brand.

June 22, 2021

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Micro Focus Content Manager 10 is here

Content Manager 10 is finally here, with plenty of new features for everyone! Here's a just a few of the new features and enhancements.

March 2, 2021

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Micro Focus Content Manager 10

Content Manager 10 is nearly here and it looks to be a very exciting release, with lots of great features for end users and administrators alike, here are a few key new features and functionality of CM10

February 3, 2021

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A lookback at 2020

No one can deny that this year came with some unexpected challenges for organisations around Australia and the world. Whilst it tested our agility in new ways, it also lead to change, learning, taking risks and exploring new ways of doing things.

December 28, 2020

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The 12 FYB Apps, Add-ins and Connectors of Christmas

Our team of elves had a busy year creating and enhancing our suite of FYB products to ensure you are saving time and improving processes everyday. Here's our most-loved products of 2020, with everything from social media capture to collaboration to document publication.

December 18, 2020

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What is Online Learning and how can it help you?

With the sudden move to people working from home, organisations have also been required to adapt to continue to educate and upskill their employees.

October 6, 2020

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What is Email Management and how does it affect productivity within your business?

In this post we provide examples of great Email Management strategies that can be easily implemented within your organisation.

September 14, 2020

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Content Manager 9.4 New Features and Functionality

This month Content Manager 9.4 was released, with over 150+ enhancements and new features we won't name them all but here are a few key new features and functionality of CM9.4

August 29, 2019

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Microsoft Teams Records Readiness Assessment

FYB has developed a work package to provide guidance and support to your organise on how to implement Microsoft Teams

April 4, 2019

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Content Manager 9.3 New Features and Functionality

This month Content Manager 9.3 was released, let's dive into a few of the new features and functionality of CM9.3

August 28, 2018

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OpenText Content Manager 24.3 is Released

FYB and Archive360 Announce Strategic Partnership for Enhanced Information Governance Solutions

FYB AI Standards and Principles

Australian Government Partners with Microsoft to Explore Safe and Responsible Use of AI

Improving Information Management Maturity: Assessing Your Practice in Victoria

Build Data Trust with Voltage Fusion

Compliant Drawings Management with FYB Drawings2CM

How to implement an effective policy and procedure portal

FYB 365|2CM vs Content Manager 10.1 Teams Integration

Microsoft Teams governance out of control? You're not alone.

Federated Searching for Content Manager and Microsoft 365 with FYB Explorezel

DocUControl - A solution for the whole team

FYB Mediazel - It's not just for the marketing team

Your Microsoft 365 Toolkit for Content Manager

Using Mediazel for Brand Asset Management

FYB 365|2CM vs SharePoint Integration Module

Why choose FYB Mediazel over Google Photos?

Managing controlled documents the easy way

3 reasons you should be using Microsoft Teams and 365|2CM

What you might not know about Microsoft 365

Why Invest in Dashboard and Reporting Tools?

Information Governance and Microsoft 365

What is Digital Asset Management?

Integrating Microsoft Teams with Content Manager

How to implement Microsoft Teams and achieve Records Compliance

What dashboards can I create in Reportilize?

Building Successful workflows with Power Automate and Power2CM

4 processes you should automate

How to automatically capture records of social media posts

3 Reasons you should integrate Salesforce and Content Manager

OpenText Content Manager 24.3 is Released

OpenText Content Manager 23.4 is Released

OpenText (Micro Focus) Content Manager Version Comparison

Australian Government Releases Long-Awaited Response to Privacy Act Review Report

Improving Information Management Maturity: Assessing Your Practice in Victoria

FYB and Greenfleet Partner for a Greener Future: Uniting Technology and Environmental Sustainability

OpenText Content Manager 23.3 is Released

Updates to the Micro Focus Product Support Lifecycle Policy

Meet the Australian standard for document control with FYB DocUControl

FYB wins Micro Focus ANZ IM&G Partner FY22 H1 Award

Micro Focus Content Manager 10.1

Integrating Lawcadia and Content Manager with FYB Law2CM

Micro Focus Content Manager Version Comparison

FYB Software Testing Process

FYB Software Versioning - What does it all mean?

Micro Focus Content Manager 10 Patch 1

FYB 365|2CM Security Updates

Micro Focus Content Manager Cloud and CM Select

Australian Made Apps, Add-ins and Connectors for Micro Focus Content Manager

Micro Focus Content Manager 10 is here

Micro Focus Content Manager 10

A lookback at 2020

The 12 FYB Apps, Add-ins and Connectors of Christmas

What is Online Learning and how can it help you?

What is Email Management and how does it affect productivity within your business?

Content Manager 9.4 New Features and Functionality

Microsoft Teams Records Readiness Assessment

Content Manager 9.3 New Features and Functionality

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