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ECM: Alfresco Most Disruptive Player?

By Dick Weisinger

The vendor landscape of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is changing.  Microsoft is trying hard to commoditize the lower end of the market with Sharepoint.  And Open-Source Alfresco is taking head-on traditional commercial ECM vendors.  Ovum Research’s Mike Davis said: Alfresco…

ECM: Distributed Capture : Capture Gets Personal

By Dick Weisinger

Often companies centralize scanning operations at a single or a few facilities to centralize maintenance, to take advantage of efficiencies of scale and to minimize on hardware costs. Times have changed and so have cost structures. Distributed, rather than centralized,…

Open Source: OS Trends in the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

OpenLogic published a list of Open Source trends that they see developed in 2007:OpenLogic found that an average enterprise now uses 94 open source packages, that’s up from the 75 they counted in 2006, an increase of 26%. Next the…

Health Care: Standards around Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft’s HealthVault, Google Health, and Steve Case’s Revolution Health. These are just some of the on-line personal health record repositories that have burst on the scene. It’s clear that a lot of industry heavies think that the time is ripe…

The Barrier of CAD File Formats

By Dick Weisinger

CAD designers are some of the biggest victims of silo-ed information. Their dilemma is that while software tools continue to grow in sophistication and complexity, the ability to exchange that data with colleagues and partners can be challenging. A study…