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Yearly Archives: 2010

Social Media: Does MicroBlogging in the Enterprise Work?

By Dick Weisinger

Twitter is seeing explosive growth outside the walls of the officeplace, but is the Twitter Microblogging concept relevant in the Enterprise?  Yammer is the best funded (or at least very well funded) Twitter-for-the-Enterprise option out there, but it seems to

Information Governance: A Widely-Ignored, But Why?

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner defines Information Governance as “the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals”.  It has the sort of apple-pie goodness about the sound of it that it seems that all companies should value

Barcodes: A Renaissance For the 2D Barcode

By Dick Weisinger

Barcodes have long been used by businesses to help automate processes.  From applications like the simple 1D 6-bar patch barcode used as a document separator for batch scanning to more complex examples like data verification of patient wristbands in hospitals

SaaS: CIOs Think Hard about Cloud Collaboration

By Dick Weisinger

GlaxoSmithKline, Coca-Cola, Panasonic, and the City of Los Angeles.  Big name organizations, and all of them have moved their email systems into the cloud.  In 2009 IDC estimates that about 2 percent of all business email inboses — about 20

Document and Records Management: The Right Prescription To Battle the Recession

By Dick Weisinger

A common theme of IT news recently is about how companies faced with the realities of the ongoing recession are turning to data management techniques to achieve efficiencies and cost savings.  The economy may be heading upwards, but many companies