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Yearly Archives: 2011

Business Intelligence: Gartner's Four Quadrants Shrinks to Two

By Dick Weisinger

The most recent report from Gartner, and available free courtesy of Oracle,  on the state of Business Intelligence (BI) shows a sort of two-winged butterfly effect in the distribution of companies across Gartner’s famous magic quadrant.  This was an effect…

Security: Compliance is Expensive, but Ultimately Saves Money

By Dick Weisinger

The average cost of security compliance for a company is $3.5 million.   That sounds high.  But a study by the Ponemon Institute found that companies that haven’t made the upfront investment in security compliance end up on average paying…

SaaS: More and More, Small and Medium Companies Take the Plunge

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS is gaining popularity with small and medium sized companies. Just how fast is shown by some recent surveys made available by AMI Partners.  AMI has forecast 25 percent compound annual growth for hosted business applications used by small and…

Technology: Process of Modernization is Difficult for the Government

By Dick Weisinger

In yesterday’s post we saw that many organizations aren’t able to consider adopting newer technologies like Cloud Computing because they are locked into existing investments in legacy on-premise software.  A report by Meritalk and Unisys found that the federal government…

Formtek to Deliver Engineering Data Management Webinar

By Dick Weisinger

On February 10, 2011, Formtek’s Chief Technology Officer, Dick Weisinger, will present a webinar, sponsored by Alfresco, entitled: Engineering Data Management Module for Alfresco. Due to a large number of requests to see last weeks presentation, which unfortunately was not recorded,…