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PLM: Enterprise Software Becoming More Usable and More Sociable

By Dick Weisinger

PLM vendors are doing their best to pivot their development paths and reinvent their software to incorporate better usability and more collaborative and social features.  It’s been a challenge for them, but by the end of 2010, some signs of…

Cloud Computing: Is the Cloud Green?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s no question that a single mammoth cloud data center is more energy efficient than the sum of the many in-house data centers that it can replace.  The cloud is more efficient because it can enable better utilization of resources and…

Master Data Management: Hot Market Even in Cool Times

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is forecasting a healthy 18 percent annual  growth for MDM over the next four years.  In 2009m, annual sales of MDM totalled $1.3 billion.  At that rate, in 2014, MDM sales are projected to reach $2.9 billion.  MDM can…

Cloud Computing: eDiscovery and the Cloud Don't Mix Well — At Least Not Yet

By Dick Weisinger

eDiscovery and Cloud Computing are a bit like oil and water, at least just yet in these early days of the cloud. The cost efficiencies and time savings that Cloud-based services provide make it seem like the choice to move…

Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley: Have Non-Compliance Penalties Really Been that Bad?

By Dick Weisinger

Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) has had companies worried for 8 years since it was passed in the summer of 2002.  Is it worth the worry and the huge effort that it entails to comply?  A study out this month from…