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Disaster Preparedness: Recent Disasters Make Businesses Reconsider Importance of Disaster Recovery

By Dick Weisinger

Globally, over the last year there have been large numbers of both natural disasters and political turmoil.  There has been the tsunami in Japan, earthquakes in Turkey and Brazil, and flooding in Australia, Brazil and Thailand, to name a few.…

Content Management: Mobile Devices #TabletFail on Content Creation

By Dick Weisinger

Tablet computing has become incredibly popular.  But even though businesses are stocking up on them, they’re not about to replace all of their desktops and laptops with tablets.  They can’t — according to a recent survey by Alfresco Software, maker…

Enterprise Social: Marketing Leads Social Media Campaigns Across Most Vertical Markets

By Dick Weisinger

IDC surveyed six vertical markets to take the pulse on how these different groups are using social media.  The survey found some level of adoption happening across the board, particularly in the retail sector.  Some of the report’s findings include:…

Text Analytics: Leapfrogging the Tag Cloud for Greater Insight to Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Text analytics, also referred to as Text mining, is used in business intelligence and data analysis to identify structure and context in text data.  Text analytics uses a variety of linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques.  Seth Grimes, independent analyst for…

Collaboration: Mobile Computing Still Can't Match the Office Experience

By Dick Weisinger

It wasn’t that long ago when remote computing was limited to phone calls using ‘dumbphones’.  Well, mobile/remote computing has improved considerably over a short period of time.  But while laptops and smartphones have made mobile collaboration significantly easier, there is…