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PLM: Repositioned for a New Year

By Dick Weisinger

2009 was a difficult year in the PLM space.  The sluggish economy hit hard at the industry, and by midyear, CIMdata revised its forecast for the PLM market downward.  Fighting back, vendors attempted to fight back and started developing features…

Technology: Information Overload has Users Maxed Out

By Dick Weisinger

For the last five years IDC has tracked the growth of the amount of information that is being created.  The numbers are pretty staggering — they estimate that by 2011 there will be ten times more information available than there…

Data Trends: The Standardization of PDF

By Dick Weisinger

It seems like it’s been forever, but it’s only been since 1993 that Adobe first introduced the PDF file format.  Adobe was forward thinking in their strategy of popularizing the PDF format by creating an easy to use and free…

ECM: Why ECM and Content Management is a Top Business Priority

By Dick Weisinger

Collaboration and compliance are the top two drivers for getting organizations to invest in Enterprise Content Management (ECM).  That’s the conclusion of a recent survery by Forrester Research of 170 ECM decision makers.  72% of those organizations will be spending…

Compliance: High Failure Rate of DB Security Audits

By Dick Weisinger

Tough times and lean IT budgets mean that many companies are skimping on data security. And that has led to what some are calling a crisis in data security. For example, nearly 40 percent of enterprises fail internal audits of…