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Yearly Archives: 2011

Records Management: Government Treading the Rough Waters of Social Media Records

By Dick Weisinger

Records Management has long been a complex and tedious undertaking, but the increased use of new social media technologies is making the task even more complicated.  Information conveyed via Social Media typically is characterized by frequent updates and refreshes.  Being…

Technology: IT Budgets Up in 2011

By Dick Weisinger

Where did the 2010 Enterprise IT budget dollars go?  Forrester has done an analysis of IT spending in 2010. In terms of new initiatives versus old, the bulk of IT spending typically goes toward maintaining the existing infrastructure: 53 percent…

Cloud Computing: IT Managers are Adopting "Cloud Thinking"

By Dick Weisinger

CA Technologies has published their vendor-sponsored survey on cloud computing which documents how companies are picking up their pace in moving  from traditional on-premise computing to cloud computing.  The interesting thing about the report is the description of a new…

Open Source: A Wealth of Tools for the New Year

By Dick Weisinger

Technology headlines last year were dominated by Cloud Computing and Social Media.  2010 was a relatively quiet year for the world of Open Source, but that’s not to say that there hasn’t been a lot of activity.  At the start…

SaaS: Even On-Demand ERP is on a Roll

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS is definitely on a roll but SaaS ERP has long been a laggard.  Aberdeen Group has been tracking  interest in SaaS ERP since 2007 and while interest in on-demand ERP has been tepid at best over the last three…