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Tacit Interactions and Knowledge Workers

By Dick Weisinger

James Manyika of McKinsey Silicon Valley last week had an article called “The coming imperative for the world’s knowledge economy” in the Comment section of the Financial Times.  Manyika and others at McKinsey have argued that the term Knowledge worker and…

Global Effects of SOX and Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

We’re currently working on a project with a customer who is a long-time user of Formtek | Orion RepositoryLink, Formtek’s certified integration of SAP R/3 and the Formtek content repository.  This customer has been using SAP’s ALViewer to view unstructured content stored in the repository.  The archived documents provide…

What's next for Sun?

By Dick Weisinger

Last week’s announcement of Jonathan Schwartz replacing Scott McNealy as CEO at Sun has met with mixed reviews, although most people agreed that a change was long due at Sun.  Sun has been struggling for some time, trying to redefine itself…

The Benefits on a Portal/Portlet Application

By Dick Weisinger

The strength of Formtek content repositories centers around our management of business and engineering documents.  Metadata, business rules, security, document relationships, workflow and collaboration.  All of these are important components in any of Formtek’s business applications.  An interesting and smart technique for creating unique…

Does it Really Stack Up?

By Dick Weisinger

Last week Red Hat announced plans to acquire open-source software maker JBoss for $350 million in cash and stock.  This is yet another data point showing the intense industry-wide effort now underway by software vendors to be able to claim single-vendor end-to-end software solutions for the enterprise,…