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Open Data: Enabling $5 Trillion Annually in Economic Value?

By Dick Weisinger

Open Data has the potential to unlock between $3 trillion to $5 trillion annually in economic value, says a report by McKinsey. Specifically, the identify seven sectors of the global economy where the value could be attained. Michael Chui, principal…

Open Source: The Risks of Building Dependencies on Open Source Libraries

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source is generally recognized as providing benefits such as high quality, low cost, reliability, and transparency.  A somewhat dated 2008 report by Gartner found that 85 percent of commercial software products use open source libraries — it’s likely that…

HTML5 on Mobile: Technology on the Rebound, but Still Out-Classed by Native Development

By Dick Weisinger

“New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices,” wrote Steve Jobs in April 2010.  But the road to HTML5 acceptance hasn’t been an easy one. A low point in attitude toward HTML5 came in…

Internet of Things: Improvements in Sensors, Networking and Analytics will Drive IoT

By Dick Weisinger

Cisco predicts that Internet of Things technology will power $14.4 trillion in company profits by 2020 and that in 2013, the Internet of Things (IoT) is generating $613 billion in profits for businesses.  Cisco believes in the potential of IoT…

Records Management: Federal IT: Budget Woes Stall Progress in Modernization of Government Records Management

By Dick Weisinger

Today is the signup deadline for Obamacare health plans that will begin New Year’s Day.  But another deadline is looming  in another part of the goverment, one that is due next week, December 31st:  the Presidential Directive on Managing Government Records. As…