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Enterprise Software: Is Slack the Best we can Do?

By Dick Weisinger

Slack.  It has become the most popular chat and productivity tool in the world.  It is used by 77 percent of Fortune 100 companies.  It is the fastest-growing SaaS software company. It must be good. But there are haters. Why?…

Satellites as a Service: Amazon AWS Pushes the Envelope of Utility Computing to Space

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon AWS brings new meaning to SaaS.  It’s Satellite as a Service, actually named AWS Ground Service. Ground Station attempts to make the world of satellite data capture and processing into a utility service, something that can be easily turned…

Web Services: What Will the Next State of Distributed Computing Be?

By Dick Weisinger

Distributed Computing.  The ability for machines and applications to intercommunicate with each other. Early web service technologies included RPC (Remote Procedure Call), CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and Microsoft DCOM (Distributed COM). CORBA, in particular, mainly because it was…

Security: The Odds are Against Totally Securing Complex Programs

By Dick Weisinger

Security is Hard.  That’s the title of a 2001 paper by Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge, a paper that looked at the application of security from the perspective of an economist. Ross concludes that “much has been written…

Digital Thread: Re-Imagining the Manufacturing Value Chain

By Dick Weisinger

Digital Threads is a digital manufacturing term that describes the flow of data through the life-cycle across the data silos. Digital threads are a concept for optimizing the delivery of data and information to the right place at the right…