Synercon is a front-runner in information governance, operating throughout Australasia, the UK and North America. We’re dedicated to researching, developing and fostering best practice information governance.
With digital transformation, the old ways of managing information have become ineffective and irrelevant. The key to our future is to build artificial intelligence into our information systems and make the systems to do the work.
Our mission is to enable the automation of information governance.
We do this by building software tools for enterprise metadata, taxonomy and ontology management. We provide expertise in the design of intelligent data models that support auto-classification and auto-appraisal, and we build state-of-the art taxonomies and ontologies.
Metadata plays a major role in information management. We use metadata to describe, find and discovery, protect, appraise and dispose of our records.
In today’s information environment with the ever-increasing volume and variety of information, the role of metadata in describing our information grows even more important. For effective decision making, research, analytics, and information sharing we need rich high-quality metadata.
But with information stockpiles growing astronomically, people don’t have the time nor the training to manually tag documents with metadata.
We need much smarter ways to assign consistent, relevant and high-quality metadata to our documents.
Building metadata models for automating information governance requires the right knowledge and the right tools.
We’ve been building metadata, taxonomies, ontologies and retention schedules for information governance since 2000. We understand information governance processes and the ISO standards that govern those processes.
With this knowledge we’ve built a.k.a.® software to deliver the right tools for autoclassification and automated appraisal. We’ve created new taxonomy and ontology models that we feed into our partner’s autoclassification engines to generate high quality, relevant metadata.
Intelligent Automation of Recordkeeping – an approach that really works
Over the past few months a remarkable collaboration has taken place between three parties: Pingar NZ, Synercon Australia and our client Auckland Transport. We each brought existing knowledge and toolsets, which we combined to build an Intelligent...
Why you need ontologies to automate records appraisal and classification
In my last post I shared an auto-classification project that we undertook recently. Even information professionals need a helping hand to appraise and classify the growing document stockpile. Not surprising then that most organisations we work with have reached the...
Metadata, Taxonomy and Ontology Design for Automating Information Governance
Classification is the means by which we can build a structured metadata model around our unstructured information, enabling us to identify, find, provide access, protect, retain and dispose of it, rigorously and consistently. This one day workshop is designed...
Eating our own (auto-classification) dogfood and loving it.
It's always been my contention that we folk in information management should use our own products. So that we can experience the same pain as our users are feeling. So here at Synercon we use our own a.k.a.® software to build metadata and classification schemes which...
Automating information governance
After my last post on classification I got into conversations with colleagues about why we haven’t been able to leverage auto-classification more for information governance (IG). Given that its no longer possible for us humans to process the vast quantities of...
A rehash on DIRKS
This is a rehash of an article published in 2012, but still relevant today DIRKS – a Tool for Achieving Better Business Outcomes Few people outside of the records management sector are familiar with the DIRKS methodology. What is DIRKS you ask? DIRKS stands for the...
Lest We Forget
