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Technology: Off-Shore becomes Next-Door

By Dick Weisinger

Continued limits on the high demand for skilled foreign workers in the US and the continued love-hate relationship that companies in the US feel towards distant low-cost off-shore outsource companies are driving a new trend: Next-Door outsourcing. Oursource companies are…

SaaS: Ellison says 'No' to Reporters, but 'Yes' with Pocketbook

By Dick Weisinger

Headlines say that Oracle’s Larry Ellison thinks that SaaS technology isn’t viable. He says that Oracle hasn’t aggressively pursued it because the model for successfully making money with SaaS just isn’t there yet and that the large companies in their…

Records Management: High Interest, Low Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

Regulations around compliance have many companies scurrying to adopt a records management policy. The interest is high, but many companies still have no records management program in place. Coincident with Iron Mountain’s purchase of records management company RMS Services-USA, Iron…

Open Source: What's it Worth to You?

By Dick Weisinger

The scales have tipped. Open Source has gone from geeky to mainstream. In a survey of security managers, 53 percent said that given two software products with equivalent functionality, that they would choose Open Source over proprietary. 80 percent of…

Technology: Gartner's List of Ten

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has come out with their list of top 10 compelling and strategic technologies. I’m disappointed that the list this year doesn’t have as many ECM-centric items as last year’s BPM, “Enterprise Information Management”, and “Information Access”. 2005 2006 2007…