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Enterprise Social: Business Chart Investments in Collaborative Tools

By Dick Weisinger

The Enterprise is feeling pressure to adopt for internal use some of the same sorts of   social media technologies made popular by FaceBook, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger and Wikipedia.  A Forrester Research report written by Rob Koplowitz, vice president and…

Mobile Security: Security Efforts Shift to Mobile

By Dick Weisinger

While the use of security software on PCs has become a routine operation, the same isn’t true yet for smartphones and other mobile devices.  But that is changing quickly.   In a report by Chenxi Wang, Vice President and analyst…

Business Intelligence: Big Hopes for Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is the rage.  But exactly what are people going to use it for? A recent survey by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) and reported in ComputerWorld by Jaikumar Vijayan categorized some of the most common ways people are…

Cloud Computing: The Evolution of Cloud Standards

By Dick Weisinger

The good news is that there seems to be near universal agreement, excluding perhaps from public cloud-leader Amazon (although Amazon might be considered the de facto standard), that standards are important for the future success of cloud computing.  The problem…

Health Care: Slow Transition to Electronic Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

The digitization of health records is proving to be a massive undertaking.  The move from paper to electronic records has been encouraged by a pool of $25 billion of stimulus funding made available by the Obama administration to incentify hospitals…