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Technology Spending: Gartner Forecasts Slight Uptick in Global IT Spending for 2012

By Dick Weisinger

Despite doom and gloom headlines about the financial crisis in Western Europe, and slow growth in both the US and China, Gartner, after revising their global IT spending forecast for the remainder of 2012, actually increased their forecast modestly, from…

Enterprise Software: Consumerization of IT Includes Greater Enterprise Use of the Python Programming Language

By Dick Weisinger

As enterprises increasingly adopt more technology originating from consumer technologies, like social media and collaboration tools, the patterns used for implementing those technologies are being adopted too.  And that includes ‘consumer technology’ programming languages.  Python and PHP are two languages that…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Favor Private Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are shifting their infrastructures to include some component of cloud computing.  Many businesses are risk adverse in their approach and wary of adopting services hosted in the public cloud.  In fact, more than half of businesses working with…

Social Media: Vendors Refactor Social Tools for the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Consumer-style Social Media is moving into the enterprise, and research house IDC is predicting dramatic growth over the next four years, estimating more than 40 percent yearly compounded growth in revenues for each of those years in the area of…

PLM: CPO: Small Steps Towards Greater Openness of PLM Products

By Dick Weisinger

Recent PLM product announcements from both SAP and Dassault Systèmes highlight their support of the ‘Codex of PLM Openness (CPO)‘.  It sounds a  bit like some sort of ancient Roman document written on papyrus, but it actually refers to an…