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Yearly Archives: 2011

Open Data: Good Progress, But More Work is Needed

By Dick Weisinger

One year ago President Obama challenged government agencies to become more transparent and make publicly available data which the government had collected.   On January 21, 2009, President Obama said: “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of…

Storage: Outlook for 2011

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations continue to generate ever more structured and unstructured data, the management of storage for that data is becoming increasingly important.  Storage has been transformed from being a boring conversation about tapes and disk drives to a hot topic…

Business Intelligence: Self Service Tools Put Data Analytics into the Hands of Average Users

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence technology is evolving quickly.  BI is moving from something that has traditionally been very complex and which required significant training and deep skills in data analysis to something which is much much more interactive, more visual, and easier…

Social Media: Enterprise Software is Poised/Pushed to Adopt New Features

By Dick Weisinger

More than $650 million was spent globally on Enterprise-oriented Social Media applications in 2010 and Gartner is forecasting that continued spending in the sector in 2011 will grow 15 percent.  The enterprise social media market includes tools and features like…

Formtek to Deliver Engineering Data Management Webinar

By Dick Weisinger

Formtek to Deliver Engineering Data Management Webinar On February 3, 2011, Formtek’s Chief Technology Officer, Dick Weisinger, will present a webinar, sponsored by Alfresco, entitled: Engineering Data Management Module for Alfresco. The Formtek Engineering Data Management (EDM) Module is a…