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ECM: Rate your organization's effectiveness in managing data

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations are being deluged by the amount of content that is being created, and to help them manage their unstructured content,  they’re frequently turning to Enterprise Content Management (ECM).  ECM is an all-inclusive term that includes a wide variety of technologies,…

Technology: The Key is Getting IT to talk with Business

By Dick Weisinger

A few weeks back we reported that there were growing rifts between IT and Legal groups within companies over issues that require close cooperation between the two groups, like on projects related to compliance or eDiscovery.  Now there’s another report,…

Cloud Computing: Dissecting the Components of Business Intelligence in the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

To understand anything better, a good idea is to break the concept down into smaller components.  And Cloud Computing is one area that a lot of people really would like to understand better.  The Gartner Group has tried to do…

SOA: The Second Coming of SOA

By Dick Weisinger

Most of 2009 was filled with bad news around SOA, from an obituary by Anne Thomas Manes in January to the doom and gloom headlines of how the recession was hitting IT budgets, particularly new initiatives like SOA.  Half a…

Social Media: Is IT at war with SM?

By Dick Weisinger

IT is often portrayed as one of the villains in the clashes against employees who demand more social and web 2.0 capabilities in their enterprise software.  There are thorny issues around security, compliance, data backups, and others.  IT and executive…