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Yearly Archives: 2016

Business Intelligence: Niche BI Vendors Steer Market Towards Analytics and Next-Generation Discovery

By Dick Weisinger

Rapid advances in data analysis and analytics are having a big impact on defining what the capabilities of Business Intelligence (BI). BI products from megavendors that have historically dominated the field are being out-done by smaller niche players in the Business…

Health Care: Gains in Analyzing Unstructured Data Improve Care

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of health data is growing at an unprecedented rate, and 80 percent of it is going unnoticed because the data in it is unstructured, according to Ginni Rometty, chairman and CEO of IBM. Rometty said that “Today, systems…

Cloud Computing: Half of Enterprises will have Production Workloads Running in the Cloud within the Next Year

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise production computing is moving to the cloud rapidly.  A report from 451 Research expects that within two years more than half of enterprises will have at least some of their production workloads in the cloud.  Today already the number…

App Economy: Mobile Users Prefer Apps to Browsers

By Dick Weisinger

The App Economy is the economic market enabled by native mobile applications. A recent study by IT Pro Portal found that: The App economy is estimated to be worth $101 billion by 2020. App games are the biggest sector with…

Security: 95 Percent of US Public Companies Have Been Hacked

By Dick Weisinger

Data breaches have become a common occurrence.  Almost everyone in the US has been a target of one or knows someone who has.  Companies are slowly realizing potential loss of revenues and reputation that can occur as a result of…