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Technology: The Government and Social Media

By Dick Weisinger

The federal government might be the last place you’d expect to find information and creative critical thinking around Social Media.  The government has to date been paralyzed by security concerns.  The result has been that they have avoided the use…

ECM: Key to a Green Future

By Dick Weisinger

Companies using ECM will collectively create a Green future.  That’s the predictionof the analyst group Gartner. Being able to store records and documents in electronic form is considerably more environment-friendly compared to paper.  For example, paper archived in storage vaults…

E-Discovery: Being prepared Saves $$$

By Dick Weisinger

Companies unprepared for an E-Discovery can find themselves in a sticky situation.  Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have tight deadlines for responding to E-discovery requests. The general flow for responding to a request, in itself, seems manageable, but can be…

Oracle: Tops in Infrastructure from Gartner's View

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle has been portrayed as having a view on software application focus that has been muddled by the integration of its many acquisitions.  That’s not how Gartner sees things though for its report on Oracle in the area of Infrastructure. …

Business Intelligence: Does it Really Help?

By Dick Weisinger

On Friday we listed the top 9 ‘innovative information access’ companies as ranked by IDC.  The interesting commonality among companies in the list was that half or more of them are classified as ‘Business Intelligence’ (BI) companies. In this recessionary…