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PLM: Growth Exceeds Forecasts

By Dick Weisinger

Global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market grew 13.5 percent in 2007, higher than analyst predictions to reach a size of $24.3 billion.  That’s the conclusion of consulting and research company CIMData. The better than expected growth came from a strong…

Content: A Victim of Commoditization

By Dick Weisinger

What’s the value of content? It’s not zero yet, but its value is dropping. Like razors and razor blades, the technology used for consuming content like videos, audio, and information has been cheap relative to the content itself, but that’s…

SOA: Business Process Blueprints

By Dick Weisinger

To add emphasis to the idea that SOA is an architectural approach and not a technical specification, the OASIS group has started a Technical Committee towards creating SOA solution blueprints. An SOA blueprint is a sort of recipe that lays…

Compliance: Companies change focus for GRC dollars

By Dick Weisinger

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) costs will reach $32 billion in 2008, a 7.4 percent increase over 2007 costs. These are the results of a study performed by AMR Research. Interestingly, while overall compliance costs are rising, dollars going…

Storage: Growth in Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

Already 21 percent of companies are using Storage Virtualization. That number is set to more than double as 26 percent of companies report on plans on taking on storage virtualization projects in the next six to twelve months. That’s the…