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Records Management: What's the Value of 5015.2 Compliance?

By Dick Weisinger

5015.2-STD, Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications, is a DoD standard for specifying records management (RM) guidelines within the Department of Defense.  The standard was first released in 1997 and, after revision, version 2 was released in June…

Compliance: IT Budgets Maxed Out by Cost of Regulations

By Dick Weisinger

Because milliseconds can mean money, many financial services companies spare no expense when it comes to IT.  In the big picture of things, money spent on getting the best equipment and IT personnel is small compared to the total potential revenues…

Oracle: More Pressure on SAP

By Dick Weisinger

Throw another one into Oracle’s Fusion melting pot of acquisition assimulation.  On March 1st, Oracle has announced plans to acquire $3.3 billion Hyperion Solutions.  With 12,000 customers and 2500 employees in 20 countries, the acquisition isn’t a small one.  And…

ECM: Healthcare and HIMSS and Form Capture

By Dick Weisinger

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) held their annual meeting a few weeks back in New Orleans.  There is a huge interest now in the digital management of medical records and information.  Standards are slowly taking hold for…

Open Source: Which License?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a lot of debate about what Open Source means.  The wide variety of licenses and business models labeled as Open Source makes it hard to come up with a definition that everyone can agree on.   The sheer number of Open Source licenses…