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Cloud ERP: 2015 will be a Turning Point for SaaS ERP

By Dick Weisinger

ERP software has been a straggler when it comes to moving to the cloud.  The complexity of ERP software, the worries of cloud security and performance, and the many existing integrations with on-premise ERP systems are factors that have held…

Internet of Things: RFID Makes Strong Comeback as Low-Cost IoT Sensor

By Dick Weisinger

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a worldwide ecosystem of physical objects that are able to communicate information across the internet. Central to the concept are smart objects and machine-to-machine communication.  The term ‘Internet of Things’ was first coined…

Big Data: Businesses Still Uncertain how to Use the Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses say they just don’t know how to apply and what to expect from Big Data technology.  A survey from SnapLogic and TechValidate that focused on how businesses are using Big Data and Hadoop technologies found that 52 percent said that…

Data Storage: Bit Rot Threatens to Leave Behind a Digital Dark Age

By Dick Weisinger

Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet” and now Google Vice President, is warning that we’re at risk of losing massive amounts data to future generations.  Our current culture might well become a “digital dark age” mystery to historians. Cerf…

Cloud Computing: Why Private Clouds Fail

By Dick Weisinger

While many businesses are pursuing the benefits of cloud technology while maintaining a handle on security by building private clouds, increasingly the opinion is that most of these projects are doomed to fail.  Both Gartner and Forrester have noted that…