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Innovation and Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Many of the reviews of Apple’s iPhone announcement last week described it as innovative.  Apple has been at the front of the pack of companies producing innovative products, and they’ve celebrated their success and focus on innovation as part of their Think…

SOA: Develop a Five-Year Plan for SOA Excellence

By Dick Weisinger

Another study has been released, this time by Butler and DataMonitor, predicting a slow but steady move towards industry-wide acceptance of SOA as the enterprise architecture of choice.  By 2012 Butler foresees a new landscape in businesses where IT interacts with the rest of…

Oracle Databases and Storage

By Dick Weisinger

“Storage is growing much faster than the revenues and profits of companies” said Ari Kaplan, president of the Independent Oracle User’s Group (IOUG).  Storage demand is being driven by regulatory compliance, increased business transactions, and buisiness intelligence, and the bulk of the…

Technology: Enterprise Software Consolidation Likely to Continue in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

2007 proved to be another year of consolidation. In the area of Business Intelligence, SAP acquired Business Objects, IBM bought Cognos, and Oracle got Hyperion. There were also at least 20 security-related companies that were purchased, including Verizon’s purchase of…

Storage Continues to make a Splash

By Dick Weisinger

Last week I discussed how the Burton group sees a shift away from emphasis on technologies like Capture and Storage within ECM towards technologies that alleviate ‘Information Overload’.  But these ‘first wave’ technologies are not standing still.  Expect big changes in the…