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Cloud Computing: Drop in Cloud Pricing Encourage Enterprises to Consume and Spend Even More

By Dick Weisinger

Here are some updated cloud facts: Even while cloud prices continue a relentless drop in price, overall spending on the cloud continues to accelerate. Lower prices entice new enterprise customers into using the cloud. Both large and medium-sized businesses plan…

Collaborative Business Intelligence: Melding Analytics with Social

By Dick Weisinger

Collaborative Business Intelligence (BI) extends the analytic capabilities of business intelligence tools with collaboration capabilities to enable improved data-driven decision making. A report by Dresner Advisory found that 60 percent of companies are interested in deploying Collaborative BI technologies. John O’Rourke,…

CRM: Continued Strong Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Revenues for the global customer relationship management (CRM) software market reached $20.4 billion in 2013, up from $18 billion in 2012, according to research giant Gartner. Rebecca Wettemann, VP research at Nucleus Research, said that “CRM is not just for sales and…

Open Source Security: Does Open Source Really Have the Edge?

By Dick Weisinger

In the wake of the exposure of the HeartBleed OpenSSL security flaw, the security and safety of Open Source software has been under fire.  The theory has been that because open source software is freely downloadable, it is exposed to…