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Search: Can new products change the status quo?

By Dick Weisinger

While Internet-based search is dominated by Google, Enterprise search has no one clear leader.  FAST, Autonomy and Endeca all offer strong performances.  But this space is moving at a rapid pace.  A number of announcements over the past month show that…

CAD: Digital Natives to drive next-generation Visualization and Design Tools?

By Dick Weisinger

Consumer technologies are driving what is happening in enterprise IT.  Gartner analysts have identified a trend where ‘digital natives’, workers with high levels of exposure to sophisticated consumer technologies, demand and expect comparable technologies to be available from their workplace IT.  These high-tech…

SOA + BPM: EAI evolves

By Dick Weisinger

Acronym and lovers of jargon have celebrated a pleasant holiday.  A new Forrester Wave study that came out just before Christmas created new BPM-space acronyms.  Forrester now divides BPM into two halves: IC-BPMS (Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suite) and HC-BPMS (Human-Centric Business…

Collaboration: Content From the Masses

By Dick Weisinger

The internet has evolved into a social medium that is enabling mass collaboration.  Wikipedia counts 16,000 contributors; YouTube has more than a hundred million contibutors; and Linux has thousands of programmers testing, tweaking and enhancing the operating system code. 2006…

Web Technology: Is AJAX due for a Shake-Up?

By Dick Weisinger

One component often associated with Web2.0 is AJAX.  AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) has been a lead technology in enabling browser-based applications to become more dynamic and interactive, trying to rival the experience of native applications. Many of the ‘2.0 initiatives’, like Content…