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SOA: Businesses increasingly adopt SOA for greater Flexibility and Control

By Dick Weisinger

Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software design methodology that modularizes software into discrete self-contained services.  Each service is designed to provide a tightly-defined function and is typically accessed over a network as a web service that can exchangesdata formatted…

Data Security: Employees often aren't Sensitive in the Handling of Confidential Data

By Dick Weisinger

IT security professionals aren’t optimistic about how well they’re able to protect their company’s data.  70 percent say that they would not bet on their company avoiding a data breach over the next six months.  That’s the result of a…

Open Source Software: It's Eating the Software World

By Dick Weisinger

“Open source is eating the software world,” says Michael J. Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners.  “Enterprises see Open Source as leading innovation, delivering higher quality and driving growth rather than just being a free or low-cost alternative.…

Enterprise Software: Big Data and Analytics Show Strong Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the frequency with which Microsoft is beat up in the news as a company that’s no longer relevant, a recent report by IDC shows that Microsoft is by far and away the largest global software vendor, controlling 17.1 percent…

Cloud Computing: The Tricky Business of Hot Upgrades

By Dick Weisinger

Jay Heiser, Gartner research vice president, told Ellen Messmer of Network World that “Gartner clients are almost universally disappointed by what they regard as the incompleteness in cloud-computing contracts where they still don’t see the level of specificity related to…