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Yearly Archives: 2017

Compliance: Better Use of Technology is Needed to Check the Rising Costs

By Dick Weisinger

Compliance has its benefits, but it’s expensive.  A recent study by Accenture found that 23 percent of financial institutions are spending more than 5 percent of their net income on compliance. The Accenture report also found that: 89 percent of…

Development Teams: Optimizing Team Productivity and Effectiveness = Increased Profitability

By Dick Weisinger

Software development teams that aren’t operating at peak performance can be costly.  Actuation Consulting, sponsored by Accelerance, published a list of three areas that software teams need to have under control to be successful: Prioritize tasks. Clearly listing tasks in…

Industrial Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms will Power Smart Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

Manufacturing are deploying “smart manufacturing” technologies to manage their operations.  Key to many of these technologies are embedded Artificial Intelligence software. Automation based on Industrial Artificial Intelligence is being applied across all steps of the product life cycle, from design…

Software Development: Small Groups Write Better Code

By Dick Weisinger

Small groups of programmers tend to produce the most secure code, compared to programmer groups of more than 20 contributors, according to the 2017 CRASH Report.  But the problem is that when software grows big, small groups of developers can’t…

Enterprise Data Encryption: Businesses Using Encryption as Tool to Protect their Cloud Data

By Dick Weisinger

One tactic to ease worries about storing data in the cloud is to encrypt data. A study by the Ponemon Institute for Thales Security found that 41 percent of businesses are consistently applying encryption across their organization. The report found…