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Business Intelligence: Vendor Consolidation Heats up — Driven by New-Generation Analytics and Big Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

In 2007 the Business Intelligence (BI) market saw a massive consolidation of vendors.  Vendors like Cognos, Business Objects and Hyperion were snapped up by large megavendors IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. These megavendors were then expected to dominate the BI…

Cloud Computing: Few Organizations Remain on the Fence as Cloud Adoption Jumps

By Dick Weisinger

In 2013 RightScale developed a Cloud Maturity Model that identified four categories of organizations relative to their use of the cloud: Cloud Watchers – developing strategies, but have no deployed cloud applications Cloud Beginners – organizations creating prototype cloud projects…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Beginning to Shift to a Replacement of Rather than Complement to On-Premise

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Research recently revised their forecast for the size of the public cloud market upwards by 20 percent than their 2011 estimate.  Forrester now says that public cloud computing will be a $191-billion market by 2020.  Their estimates changed after…

Enterprise Collaboration: Organizations Slow to Match the Collaboration Capabilities of Consumer-Grade Tools

By Dick Weisinger

Formal collaboration tools should be an essential part of every company’s infrastructure, said 89 percent of respondents on a recent survey by AIIM.  But most companies haven’t yet implemented them.  40 percent say that either the tools aren’t there or…

Open Source: Collaborative Development to be the Norm Rather than the Exception

By Dick Weisinger

The 80-20 rule.  Vilfredo Pareto first described it in the 19th century when he noticed that 80 percent of the wealth of people was held by only 20 percent of the population.  The so-called Pareto or 80-20 rule is is…