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Storage: Data Consolidation Cuts Costs

By Dick Weisinger

Companies can be more efficient in spending money on data management. A Gartner study identified nine areas in which organizations could reduce costs related to data managment and integration. An area ripe for cost savings is consolidation of data among

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,

EMC: Banner Year for Alfresco

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source ECM Alfresco just closed its books on fiscal year 2007, and its been a year of milestones for the company that included: The one millionth download More than 45,000 registered community members Customer bookings growing by 320% to

ECM: Commercial ECM Systems Fail to Address OCT

By Dick Weisinger

A report out of Ireland says that most commercial ECM systems are ignoring data created from Online Content Technologies (OCT). Email and Web Content capture capabilities have made it to people’s radars, but managing data from  Web 2.0 content generation

Enterprise Software: Are Customers Winners After Megamergers?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP have been on a buying spree. Billion dollar plus purchases have become the norm as enterprise software companies are rapidly consolidating. In general, shareholders have been pleased with the transactions, but customers of these vendors