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Enterprise Content Management: State of the Industry

By Dick Weisinger

In May, AIIM released the report called State of the ECM Industry 2010.  This is the fifth year the annual report has been published, and as usual, it contains a lot of useful information. The report investigates which benefits are the…

Open Source: Shift from Skepticism to Enthusiasm

By Dick Weisinger

Two years ago many companies were skeptical of Open Source, but after living two years through tough times during a recession, many companies  have a better handle on what Open Source is all about and are enthusiastically embracing its potential.…

Technology: Web Applications Prefer NoSQL Databases

By Dick Weisinger

Is there any coincidence that after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and the Open Source MySQL database that many large web sites are abandoning MySQL?  Web properties Reddit, Twitter and Digg have migrated from using MySQL to a technology that is…

eDiscovery: Litigation and the BP's Gulf Deepwater Disaster

By Dick Weisinger

On April 20th an explosion of a BP deepwater drilling rig 40 miles offshore Louisiana was the start of what is shaping up to be the largest environmental disaster ever in U.S history.  Upwards of 1000 barrels of oil have…

Cloud Computing: How Complete is Your Cloud Vendor's Security Checklist?

By Dick Weisinger

Run a query on “SAS-70 certification” and you’ll get a page full of SaaS/Cloud Computing/On-Demand services that have achieved certification for their services.  Many of these articles and press releases contain language like this one:  “This SAS 70 Type II showcases to…