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Enterprise Content Management: Businesses Struggle with SharePoint Installations

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report by Osterman Research reviewed the state of SharePoint projects within companies.  SharePoint and other collaboration tools are increasingly being deployed by companies to manage their documents and content.  While the report specifically focused on SharePoint, to be…

Cloud Computing: Cloudera's Impala Seeks to Replace Hive for Hadoop

By Dick Weisinger

Impala, a new open-source Apache-licensed tool has recently been added by Cloudera to the Hadoop toolset ecosystem.  Inspired by Google’s Dremel, Impala is a real-time query engine for Hadoop. Hadoop already has a tool called Hive which provides some amount…

2013 IT Growth in Spending Relatively Flat Except for SMAC Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Growth in global IT spending in 2012 has been anemic.  And Gartner’s forecast for spending for 2013 predicts slow gains — up 2.5 percent to $2.679 trillion. Gartner says that government is one sector that isn’t faring well, seeing a drop…

Disruption: All Industry Segments are Vulnerable — It's a Question of When

By Dick Weisinger

Chances are the industry you’re working in is a candidate for disruption.   A recent study by Deloitte found that nearly all industries are eventually subject to disruptions of some kind, with some more susceptible than others.  When looking at the…

Document Management: Maximizing the Benefits of Technology

By Dick Weisinger

The benefits of managing documents and records electronically are many, and they are also fairly well known. The benefits of Electronic Document Management can include: Speed of search and retrieval.  Electronic documents can be located in seconds compared to days…