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Oracle: Records Management For Every Occasion

By Dick Weisinger

Last October at Oracle OpenWorld 2006 this blog reported that Oracle’s records management strategy seemed to be going nowhere fast. A year has passed and so has Oracle’s strategy. One big change that happened last November was that Oracle bought…

Patents: US Patents Finally Become Harder to Get

By Dick Weisinger

A court ruling in early October suggests that the pendulum has finally begun to swing backwards away from leniency in the granting of patents. “Business-method” and abstract mentally-derived patents may become much harder to obtain. That could be good news…

ECM: The 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is out again with their review of the ECM industry for 2007. The industry heavy-weights remain pretty much the same as from previous years, although recent consolidations have changed the names a bit. For example, “FileNet” and “Stellent” are…

ECM: Are Content Management Standards Possible?

By Dick Weisinger

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) lacks a well-adopted industry-wide set of standards. Actually they lack standards that have achieved almost any sort of acceptance. That’s a problem. Within enterprises, Content Management solutions often start as departmental projects and tend to…

SOA: Companies' Grip on SOA Governance Slipping

By Dick Weisinger

Nearly 90% of companies admit that their process for reviewing services to introduce into their SOA framework is lacking. That according to SOA Forum’s recent survey. The results of the survey are: 88 percent of companies think that their current…