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Compliance: SEC Bends to Pressure and Delays Again

By Dick Weisinger

After many cries from small companies, the SEC has decided to delay for one more year the requirement of smaller companies under section 404(b) of Sarbanes-Oxley to have have auditor attestation. Smaller companies now will not need to comply until…

PLM: Gartner Magic Quadrant

By Dick Weisinger

In January, Gartner announced the rankings of vendors in the Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) space. The report identifies five areas which PLM software is important: Drive business strategy to create portfolios of products Planning for development to go from…

Open Source: It's Only Been Ten Years

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has been around for a while, but it’s only been ten years since the definition of Open Source has been published. The Open Source Definition is used by the Open Source Initiative to determine whether or not a…

Enterprise Search: More SAP Money to Seed Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

In an earlier blog we talked about how SAP Ventures made a $9 million dollar seed investment in Alfresco. SAP Ventures is also funding enterprise search company Endeca to the tune of $5 million. Intel Capital also ponied up another…

SaaS: Picking up the Pace in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

2007 was a great year for SaaS. There’s a stronger foundation of awareness and trust of on-demand delivery technology then there was a year ago today. In 2008 the momentum is expected to continue. An IDC/Goldman Sachs study sees the…