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SaaS: Rapid Growth of SaaS for Business Critical Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Research from Saugatuck found that 26 percent of companies have at least one deployed SaaS application.  This is up from just 11 percent last year, a 150 percent increase over one year. The increase in deployments is coupled with a…

Web 2.0: SaaS Limited by Lack of Offline access

By Dick Weisinger

AJAX, Flash, Laszlo and FLEX2 are browser-upgrade technologies that have seen huge uptake over the last few years, with AJAX grabbing most of the attention.  All of these technologies have moved the web browser several notches closer towards the rich and responsive…

ECM: Creating an Active Archive

By Dick Weisinger

Active archiving is the process of tagging and moving infrequently used data from high-performance active storage to more cost-effective storage.  The term Active Archiving is most often applied to structured data stored in a relational database but it can also…

SOA: Web Services in a Nutshell

By Dick Weisinger

Stefan Tilkov of InnoQ, a German services company with expertise in Software architecture related to SOA, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and XML, has created a vendor-neutral poster showing a matrix of Web Services Standards. The poster isa useful collection of more than…

Sarbanes-Oxley: Oxley admits problems with legislation

By Dick Weisinger

Michael Oxley, famous as co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley bill and now a former Republican congressman from Ohio, was in Paris recently for a dinner attended by accountants.  Oxley was asked if he had a chance to do it all over…