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Data Management: Feds Releases Open Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Common data formats are unleashing a revolution in accessing and manipulating data.  Up until not too long ago, data was typically authored in a single application and stored in a proprietary format that locked that data down to only being…

Records Management: At What Level of Competency is Your Organization?

By Dick Weisinger

How does your organization’s Records Management implementation rank in level of competency/maturity with your peers? AIIM has announced an on-line questionaire that can be used to rank the level of maturity of your organization. The assessment tool asks a total…

Enterprise Software: User-Friendly SAP? — It's Overdue

By Dick Weisinger

Long-time users of SAP are well aware that the term ‘user friendly’ and SAP are seldom used in the same sentence.  SAP has made a bundle with its tight-lipped no-nonsense business software.  But SAP ‘transaction screens’ and screen identifiers are…

PLM: Market Hit By Global Economic Woes

By Dick Weisinger

While many believe that the long term horizon forecast for PLM is very rosy, the short-term global economic downturn is keeping PLM sales in check, and that will probably remain the situation through the end of 2009. That is the…

Storage: Smart Storage Saves Bytes (and Dollars)

By Dick Weisinger

Planning a strategy for data storage has evolved from one that tries to keep pace with storage growth by just buying new units. A strategy today needs to account for data security, disaster recovery, and technology capabilities like deduplication and…