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SaaS: Email Shift Towards On-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS has had a firm grip on the CRM market for some time. Now that trend towards SaaS is spreading to e-mail. In a new report by Gartner, the forecast is for 20% of the commercial e-mail market to shift…

SOA: Back from the Dead?

By Dick Weisinger

Four months ago the Burton group declared SOA dead and the analyst and blogger communities chimed in with agreement. Now Gartner disagrees. Or at least they characterize SOA not as dead, but as recovering from a “trough of disillusionment” and…

EHealth: IBM and Mayo Clinic Team Up on Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

Days after IBM got approval for UIMA as an OASIS standard, IBM and the Mayo clinic have announced that they’ve set up a web site dedicated to UIMA-based annotators that target Health records.  The wiki pages and source repository is…

Open Source: Growth — But not so Fast

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has forecast that the size of the Open Source database market will top $1 billion by 2013.  While everyone agrees that Open Source is making a big impact on the market, Rodriguez and Urlocker at InfoWorld dispute the speed…

Compliance: XBRL Financial Reporting Help

By Dick Weisinger

The Securities and Exchange have been nudging companies towards using XBRL to file their financial results. XBRL defines an XML document structure that contains tags for identifying and publishing business data. In late 2008 the SEC announced that the 500…