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Compliance: Bigger than SOX

By Dick Weisinger

Take cover!  More regulations are on the way.  Gradually the pendulum had been slowly swinging towards less stringent enforcement of compliance after the shock of the enactment of SOX.  As a  result of the financial meltdown, regulators are working on…

ECM/CMIS: Microsoft SharePoint and CMIS

By Dick Weisinger

CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Specification) is a light-weight services-based interface specification  for accessing documents and metadata in content management systems.  EMC, IBM and Microsoft were founding members of the committee that created the CMIS specification.  CMIS is now being reviewed…

ECM: What CIOs Are Looking for in 2009

By Dick Weisinger

What do CIOs want from their content management systems? A survey by Gartner found that the top three business priorities for CIOs are: – Improve Business Processes – Reduce Enterprise Costs – Improve Enterprise Workforce Effectiveness And the top five…

Open Source: Google and Intel Identify OS Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft has been nearly alone in their warning of the potential problems and pitfalls with using Open Source. So it is a little surprising to hear that companies like Intel and Google chime in with at least some level of…

Open Source: Businesses Pick Up On Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

46 percent of businesses are now using Open Source. Those numbers come from a Forrester Research survey of 2200 IT executives. The numbers keep rising, and many are predicting that the tough economic climate will only be a further incentive…