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Business Intelligence: 2012 BI Market Growth Numbers Disappoint

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence (BI) is a technology that’s grabbed the interest businesses in a big way over the last few years.  There has been a lot of excitement and discussion about how analytics and real-time dashboards can help businesses make better…

Technology: WebRTC's One Billion Device Reach

By Dick Weisinger

WebRTC is a framework for real-time communication (RTC) between browsers that requires no special plug-in to work.  This is a topic that we first covered last December.  Supporters of WebRTC include Google and Mozilla — WebRTC is available now in both…

BYOD: Businesses Beef up Security as the Line Between Employee-owned and Business-owned Devices Blurs

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner estimates that about half of global businesses will have BYOD policies by 2017 whereby employees will need to provide their own devices.  About 15 percent of business will opt to continue to provide their employees with devices, and another…

Security: Data Continues to Leak from Large Numbers of Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses and governments of all sizes have become targets of computer hacking.  A Verizon security report notes that “from pubs to public agencies, mom-and-pops to multi-nationals, nobody is immune.”. A report by the Ponemon Institute found that small businesses and…

Technology: Developers Increasingly Opt for High-Performance In-Memory Databases

By Dick Weisinger

In-Memory database use has increased worldwide 40 percent over the last six months.  Now nearly a quarter of software developers say that they’re using them, and another 39 percent say that they plan to start using in-memory databases in their…