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Technology: Forrester Wrongly Predicts the Death of Web Pages

By Dick Weisinger

The Cloud has dominated much of the discussion and direction of computing over the last few years.  Now Forrester says that the clouds are bringing  ‘thunderstorms’.  The cloud combined with mobile is creating a new infrastructure that is dramatically changing our…

Big Data: Help Wanted: Need More Data Scientists

By Dick Weisinger

Both the hardware and software technologies are evolving at a rapid pace, increasingly making it possible to perform ‘Big Data’ analysis , but there is a fairly big gap in the number of trained technologists who are productively able use the…

Big Data: Investments Flow into the Next Big Thing

By Dick Weisinger

Analysts seem to agree that the stars are aligning for Big Data.  Nearly every end-of-year list of predictions for the direction of IT in 2012 includes Big Data. James Kobielus, Forrester analyst, wrote on his blog that “Big data was…

Social Media: Forrester Predicts Explosive Growth for Enterprise Social Software

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is collaboration software that incorporates the kind of social-media capabilities typically found in consumer web apps like Facebook and Twitter.  ESS tools are increasingly being deployed in organizations with a current market size of about $600…

Health Care: EMR Adoption Climbing and Expected to be Strong over the next Five Years

By Dick Weisinger

The deadline for the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has many scrambling to adopt EMR systems before that deadline in order to qualify for the funding.  Incentive funding via HITECH to hospitals and physicians to adopt Electronic Medical Records…