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Business Intelligence: Assisted by Enterprise Search for Unified Information Access

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence (BI) is increasingly being used by businesses for synthesizing data culled from many company databases to create reports and dashboards that can identify patterns and trends.  BI has had its share of success, but it sometimes isn’t able…

Cloud Computing: Cloud Services see Fast Track Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is forecasting a 16.9 percent growth of revenues generated from global cloud services this year compared to 2009 revenues.  The expected 2010 global cloud service revenue is $68.3 billion.  The Gartner projection is to reach $148.8 billion in 2014.…

Open Source: Quality now leads Affordability as Main Selection Criteria

By Dick Weisinger

During the last ten years Open Source has had a profound influence on both software companies and consumers of software, indirectly if not directly.  And along the way, Open Source has changed, morphing itself in ways so as to become…

Records Management: Government Agencies Need Policy Around Social Media

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the challenges that government agencies face in adopting new web-based technologies like Web 2.0 and Social Media, adoption of these technologies within the government is increasing.  Privacy, security, records management and freedom of information have all been big stumbling…

SaaS: Rapid Growth Continues

By Dick Weisinger

While most of the economy has been sputtering, there have been few bright spots, but SaaS is proving to be an exception.  Gartner is predicting that SaaS spending will grow by 14.1 percent this year, compared to 2009.  That jump…