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Open Source: Advocates to Government

By Dick Weisinger

Two years ago a group was founded with the charter of lobbying for the expanded use of Open Source software within the government.  The group is called Open Source for America (OSFA), and it has more than 70 members that…

Open Data: Governments Open Up

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been one year since since the US government’s www.data.gov “Open Data” site has been available. On opening day, 47 data sets were available, and now over the past year, that number has expanded to thousands.  There have been over 97…

Open Data: A Groundswell of Civics and Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Tim Berners-Lee, architect behind much of what we now call the internet, has been a strong advocate for open access by all to data collected and derived by government bodies and agencies.  The movement towards more open government has been…

Business Intelligence: Trending Towards Convergence with New Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

Science and technology have a long history of exchanging concepts, with cross-over ideas sometimes revolutionizing our ways of thinking about something.  The speed that cross-pollination of ideas between disciplines seems to be increasing.  For example, both Gartner and HP recently…

Business Intelligence: Going Back to Basic Principles

By Dick Weisinger

The promise of Business Intelligence (BI) is to enable organisations to make better and quicker business decisions by exposing the key metrics that drive the organisation.  BI is able to reach across all information sources within the organization, including data…