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Storage: Backup Redesign Adds to Storage Demands

By Dick Weisinger

A survey by TheInfoPro found that Backup Redesign is a main driver of the increased demand for storage systems in organizations.  15% of the storage budget is flowing towards the redesign of backup infrastructure at Fortune 1000 companies. Those results…

ECM: Document Level Security

By Dick Weisinger

The Tam Tam Blog mentioned an interesting discussion of Document Level Security in discussion by Mark Bennet at New Idea Engineering. The search result of a document search needs to account for security levels assigned by ACLs to documents in the repository. …

Poor Data Quality can Undermine Business Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

Keeping data up to date and fresh is a global problem.  How many times have you searched the internet to find the information in the top results to be out-dated?  The same problem plagues data managed in enterprises. A Data Warehousing Institute’s study…

SaaS: Surge of Interest in SaaS — but is the Enterprise ready?

By Dick Weisinger

In April at Software 2006, McKinsey/IDC reported statistics from their SaaS survey.  Now McKinsey has updated the numbers in a new report due to be released soon.  Their new report shows that 61% of North American companies with over $1 billion in…

Top 10 Trends in ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Here are 10 top trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space: Consolidation.  IBM/Filenet, Oracle/Stellent, Open Text/Hummingbird/Red Dot, EMC/Documentum/Captiva.  I’ve written about the consolidation trends here and here and here. Compliance.  Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA CPR-21, SEC 17a-4, and risk compliance are examples…