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Information Management: Innovative Information Access Companies

By Dick Weisinger

IDC announced the names of the top 9 most innovative information access companies to watch. The criteria for selecting these companies was: – Must be under $100 million in annual revenues – Must sell products with Web 2.0 style user…

PLM: Product Information Technology Slow to Advance

By Dick Weisinger

Product Information Technology is advancing slowly and most organizations have not been able to develop a product information strategy that can contribute business value.  Only 26 percent of companies surveyed by Ventana Research actually have a Product Information Management (PIM)…

Enterprise Content Management: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

By Dick Weisinger

At Formtek we pride ourselves in the robustness of the enterprise content solutions that we have developed for our customers.  Every one of our deployments meets the Formtek high standards.  We use the mnemonic of high-3S to describe the areas…

Open Source: Not Cheap Enough To Drive Migration

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve lived through or are now living through the ‘Great Recession’.  And while this recession has hit traditional business models hard, the consensus has been that the recession will only further accelerate Open Source adoption because businesses are scrambling to…

Innovation: Applying Agile Outside the Boundaries of Software

By Dick Weisinger

At the recent two-day Optimizing Innovation Conference, Xerox’s Francois Ragnet presented Xerox’s approach to make services more innovative.  It’s not an easy thing, partly because the basic nature of innovation seems to be at odds with the concept of services…