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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…

SaaS: Salesforce Circle of Success

By Dick Weisinger

In an effort to expand outside the CRM space, Salesforce.com is beginning to push vertical applications.  In February, just a few weeks after introducing a generic platform for on-demand solutions called Apex, Salesforce announced plans for the Salesforce Wealth Management…

Data Deluge: 25% of Enterprise Data is Inaccurate

By Dick Weisinger

Not only are company data archives overflowing, the data is dirty.  Gartner says that 25 percent of Fortune 1000 company critical data collected over the next two years will be inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated.  Gartner thinks that three quarters of…

Open Source: Big-Vendor Strategies Intrigue Governments

By Dick Weisinger

With few exceptions, federal and state governments have been hesitant to adopt Open Source.  The Apache web server is one exception of Open Source that has been successfully deployed widely within government, but beyond that, Open Source adoption has been fairly…