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ECM: Basic Content Services

By Dick Weisinger

Looking for a Content Management System but don’t need all the bells and whistles or the high cost of an EMC Documentum or IBM Filenet?  Maybe what you’re looking for is what’s now being called Basic Content Services (BCS). Basic

ECM: Oracle Unwraps 12-month Roadmap

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle completed its $440 million acquisition of Stellent in December 2006.  Stellent brings to Oracle a best-of-breed software suite that already has significant presence within the $3.6 billion ECM industry.  Yesterday Oracle laid out their strategy with the ECM space for

Records Management: What's the Value of 5015.2 Compliance?

By Dick Weisinger

5015.2-STD, Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications, is a DoD standard for specifying records management (RM) guidelines within the Department of Defense.  The standard was first released in 1997 and, after revision, version 2 was released in June

Data Deluge: More Numbers Predict Crushing Amounts of Information

By Dick Weisinger

Just when people are becoming familiar with the concept of a terrabyte and are starting to see references to petabyte-sized storage systems, the world is moving up to the next level up of storage, the exabyte, that’s 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes. Exabyte are

SaaS/DaaS: Data Sources Powering Mashups

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS (Software as a Service) are hosted on-demand browser-based applications.  Parallel to SaaS is something I’m calling DaaS (Data as a Service), a trend that is rapidly evolving.  DaaS combines elements of SaaS and SOA and it is the force