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Yearly Archives: 2011

Secure Cloud Computing: Disparity in Level of Comfort Between IT and Compliance Officers

By Dick Weisinger

When it comes to opinions about Cloud technology, IT staff and Compliance officers are on different wavelengths.  A recent study conducted on the Cloud by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by encryption-provider Vormetric found a “gulf” between the opinions of…

Web Content Management (WCM): Managing the Customer Experience and Saving Millions

By Dick Weisinger

Web Content Management (WCM) is an increasingly fragmented market.  WCM has always been a special blend of content management that is distinctly different in requirements from standard Enterprise Content Management.  And now, new forces are coming into play, particularly technologies…

Big Data: Organizations Reap the Rewards of Data-Driven Decision Making

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations that adopt data-driven decision (DDD) making are 5-6 percent more productive than organizations that don’t rely on extensive data analysis prior to making their decisions.  That’s one of the results of a study made by Erik Brynjolfsson and his colleagues…

ECM: Gartner Advises the Replacement of CMS systems older than Five Years

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s annual survey and magic-quadrant rankings for the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market is out, and it shows that the market for ECM is growing at a rate much faster than the rest of the economy.  [The report is freely…

Technology: State CIO's Gain More Clout

By Dick Weisinger

As corporate IT is increasingly being managed from a business perspective, rather than a pure technical one, we’ve seen that CIO’s are increasingly being marginalized, with decisions often now being deferred to CFO’s or other executives on the business side.…