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ECM: Forrester Predicts 2012 to be a Break-Out Year for Content

By Dick Weisinger

Despite the slowdown in the economy, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market hasn’t exactly been on hard times.  Gartner estimates that ECM spending grew at 5.9 percent in 2009, followed by 7.6 percent growth in 2010.  Gartner forecasts that ECM will grow…

Web Content Management (WCM): Managing the Customer Experience and Saving Millions

By Dick Weisinger

Web Content Management (WCM) is an increasingly fragmented market.  WCM has always been a special blend of content management that is distinctly different in requirements from standard Enterprise Content Management.  And now, new forces are coming into play, particularly technologies…

Health Care: Slow Transition to Electronic Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

The digitization of health records is proving to be a massive undertaking.  The move from paper to electronic records has been encouraged by a pool of $25 billion of stimulus funding made available by the Obama administration to incentify hospitals…

Document Security: Managed File Transfers Enhance Standard FTP

By Dick Weisinger

A survey by HubSpan finds that FTP is still a widely used tool for exchanging file data at more than 77 percent of companies, and of those that don’t currently use it, 40 percent say they’d like to set up…

Unstructured Data: The Costs of Poor Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

Poor data management, especially unstructured data, costs organizations a lot of money money.  The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study sponsored by Novell to try to determine exactly how much. The Ponemon report found that storage, control and compliance associated…