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Businesses Clean House Replacing Legacy Apps: One-Quarter Want to Replace Workflow and Document Management

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are itching to modernize their IT and business applications, according to a survey by Hitachi Consulting.  90 percent of businesses say that they have to deal with legacy applications that are holding them back.  More than one third say

Business Intelligence: Business Analysts and ‘Citizen Data Scientists’ Help Make Easy-to-Use BI Products Market Leaders

By Dick Weisinger

Revenues from Business Intelligence software grew at a 9 percent rate in 2013 and that level of growth is expected to stay constant through 2018, averaging 8.7 percent.  Within the next two years a majority of business users and analysts

Software Defined Storage: Efficiency from Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

Storage vendors are beginning to roll out smart storage systems based on the idea of ‘software defined storage’.  IBM has introduced technology that they’re calling “Elastic Storage“, and EMC has recently announced their ViPR 2.0 product.  New products like these

Collaborative Business Intelligence: Melding Analytics with Social

By Dick Weisinger

Collaborative Business Intelligence (BI) extends the analytic capabilities of business intelligence tools with collaboration capabilities to enable improved data-driven decision making. A report by Dresner Advisory found that 60 percent of companies are interested in deploying Collaborative BI technologies. John O’Rourke,

Business Intelligence: Slow Growth But 2014 may be Tipping Point

By Dick Weisinger

The Business Intelligence and analytics software market grew 8 percent from $13.3 billion in 2012 to $14.4 billion in 2013, according to Gartner Research.  While 8 percent seems like health growth, many had expected the market, especially because of the