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Yearly Archives: 2020

Security: Data Breaches Continue to Be IT Headache

By Dick Weisinger

Going into 2020 and the new decade, security continues to be a top concern for businesses. Creating a hack-proof IT infrastructure may be the goal, but it remains an elusive one. Businesses continue to be confronted with many difficult security…

CRM: Startups Target Sales Practices at SalesForce and Oracle

By Dick Weisinger

Software startups are pushing back against CRM software incumbants, SalesForce.com, Oracle, and SAP. The startups say that big companies push the tightly integrated add-ons from their software stack, alternative software companies are effectively locked out and unable to compete. 200…

Code Quality: Code Reviews by Artificial Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

“Every business is a software business”, said Watts S. Humphrey, an early software pioneer, said more than twenty years ago. But software needs to be maintained and checked. Quality assurance, testing and debugging all come along as part of the…

Artificial Intelligence: The Difficult Task of Taking the Bias out of Algorithms

By Dick Weisinger

Algorithms are increasingly being used score, rank and screen just about everything. Algorithms scan resumes, credit applications, housing applications and more. They have a say in which school your child may attend and which product advertisements and even product pricing…

Time-Series Databases: Toolset to Monitor IoT Data

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) and the sensor devices that power it are designed to be producers of massive amounts of data. Much of the data being produced is focuses on the changes of data over time. Time series databases…