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Data Management: Companies Struggle to Manage Sensitive Data

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations amass ever more data, the need to classify, organize, search and analyze large data sets is becoming increasingly important.  One area that is proving especially difficult for organizations is the ability to identify sensitive data, data which needs…

Health Care: Debate Rages Over Cost Effectiveness of EHRs

By Dick Weisinger

A recent study from Harvard Medical School and CUNY School of Public Health is stoking tensions in the debate about whether EHRs are as cost effective as they are portrayed by proponents of the technology.  The conclusions of the new…

Mobile: Mobile Computing to Rule the Next Decade

By Dick Weisinger

Mobile data traffic will grow at a annual rate of 78 percent through 2016 by an estimate in Cisco’s annual Visual Networking Index.  Compouned, that amounts to a factor of 18 increase of traffic from 2011 to 2016.  The report…

QR Barcodes: A Neat Idea that Hasn't Really Caught On

By Dick Weisinger

The QR or ‘Quick Response‘ two-dimensional barcode is struggline for acceptance.  QR was first invented by Toyota in 1994 to help track the steps of the automobile manufacturing process.  Compared to standard barcodes, QR codes have the capacity to contain…

eDiscovery: Applying Analytics to Speed the Identification of Relevant Documents

By Dick Weisinger

eDiscovery is the process of recovering evidence in a legal case from electronically stored files, documents, and databases.  The process of eDiscovery starts with a request from an attorney to produce all documents related to specific keywords that were produced…