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Social Media: Forrester Predicts Explosive Growth for Enterprise Social Software

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is collaboration software that incorporates the kind of social-media capabilities typically found in consumer web apps like Facebook and Twitter.  ESS tools are increasingly being deployed in organizations with a current market size of about $600…

Enterprise Software: Big Data and Cloud Drive Growth in Use of Data Integration Tools

By Dick Weisinger

The market for data integration tools grew 20 percent in 2010 to $1.63 billion.   And the market is expected to grow another 15% in 2011.  That’s according to Gartner’s 2011 report on Data Integration Tools. Gartner says that “Data…

Enterprise Software: Top 10 ERP System Problems

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise software has undergone dramatic changes over the last decade.  Modern enterprise software is now much easier to use, easier to access and easier to configure.  That’s great news for first-time customers shopping around for a new system, but it…

Enterprise Software: App Stores Revive Enterprise Apps

By Dick Weisinger

In another sign that consumer technology is influencing the direction of technology used in the enterprise, App Stores catering to the needs of the enterprise are beginning to popup.  Apple popularized the on-line self-service model for selling software and data…

Data Virtualization: Many Benefits, but not without Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

Virtualization is a simulation of the real version of something.  The term can be applied to hardware, software and applications, but typically virtualization refers to software that abstracts the hardware of a physical computer.  Virtual machine software can trick an…