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Yearly Archives: 2011

Compliance: Nine years of Sarbanes-Oxley

By Dick Weisinger

Nine years after the Senate merged their “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” with the House’s “Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”, the law remains a center of debate.   July 30th marked the 9 year anniversary…

PLM: Retail Adoption Slows

By Dick Weisinger

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from an idea, through design, manufacture, maintenance, and finally, disposal.  PLM centrally manages and provides access to all product data and information.  PLM is data…

Open Data: Rise of the Rogue Citizen Developer and End-User Application Development

By Dick Weisinger

Citizen Developers are users who are not directly responsible for or authorized to build software applications or tools for an organization.  They are members of the organization who typicallyare motivated by a need to automate a task, improve the user…

Cloud Computing: IT Vendors Need to Adopt the Cloud to Remain Relevant

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is expected to grow to be a $9.4 billion market by 2015.  IDC and IDG Enterprise issued a report last month that provided that estimate, with about a third of the revenues going to the public cloud, and…

Unstructured Data: The Costs of Poor Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

Poor data management, especially unstructured data, costs organizations a lot of money money.  The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study sponsored by Novell to try to determine exactly how much. The Ponemon report found that storage, control and compliance associated…