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Enterprise Content Management: The Breakup of the Industry

By Dick Weisinger

I wrote last month that it has been  a decade since the term Enterprise Content Management (ECM) was coined by AIIM.  The last decade was one of consolidation of ECM software elements into mammoth software suites that are able to…

Big Data: How are People Using it?

By Dick Weisinger

The ability to analyze “big data” or huge data sets efficiently has led many to predict that we are on the verge on being able to make huge breakthroughs in understanding science, society and business.  At a recent conference on…

Health Care: The Rush to Achieve "Meaningful Use" (and Payout)

By Dick Weisinger

Short term there are big incentives for health care providers to implement electronic health records.  But after the initial burst of stimulus money is gone, will these new systems really be sustainable and at least as cost effective as existing…

ECM: Just How Many SharePoint User Seats are Out There?

By Dick Weisinger

There are a lot of SharePoint seats out in the wild.  KMWorld estimates that the number of SharePoint user seats out there is on the order of 130 million, and a report by Global360.com estimates that 97 percent of organizations…

Records Management: Progress for Europe's MoReq2010

By Dick Weisinger

In the US, the Department of Defense’s 5015.2 specification is recognized as the “gold standard” when evaluating capabilities of Records Management systems.  In Europe, the comparable standard is MoReq or the Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records.  In…