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Records Management: Government Agencies Struggling

By Dick Weisinger

The Federal government budget for next year sets aside about $80 billion to fund 809 major IT initiatives across all federal departments and agencies.  That’s a lot of dollars.  Yet despite all those dollars flowing into IT, many agencies are still…

Enterprise 2.0: A Balance of Collaboration Benefits and Compliance Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

Financial institutions are highly regulated, perhaps more than any other type of company.  And that’s part of the reason why financial companies have been slow in adopting Enterprise 2.0 collaboration tools.  Chris Kanaracus at IDG recently gave the example of the…

eDiscovery: Friction Between Legal and IT Groups Jeopardize Response

By Dick Weisinger

A new survey by Recommind finds that there is a mini-war brewing between IT and Legal coalitions.  The results show that communication between the two groups has waned over the last year.  Now, only a little more than half say…

Cloud Computing: Private Clouds On Rapid Growth Path

By Dick Weisinger

The sales of servers for cloud computing is expected to reach $12.6 billion by 2014.  That’s the forecast of IDC in a new report. But what’s interesting is the mix of numbers between servers used in public clouds and those…

Methodology: SEMAT and Next Generation Software Engineering

By Dick Weisinger

In October of last year a new organization was founded called SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory) with the goal of trying to bring about more rigor to the world of software engineering, or as the SEMAT’s charter says, to “refound…