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Unstructured Data: The Costs of Poor Data Management

By Dick Weisinger

Poor data management, especially unstructured data, costs organizations a lot of money money.  The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study sponsored by Novell to try to determine exactly how much. The Ponemon report found that storage, control and compliance associated

Records Management: We Could Do Better!

By Dick Weisinger

It makes sense that businesses which run efficiently have the best shot at success.  90 percent of companies agree with that, based on a survey by Iron Mountain Incorporated.  Those companies said that being efficient is a mission-critical requirement for

Cloud Computing: Traditional Vendors Struggle to Change

By Dick Weisinger

Change.  It’s usually for the better, but there are often steep hurdles to overcome to adopt it.  In the business world, we see time and again successful business stumble and fall when they are not able to adopt to changes

Health Care: VA to team with DoD for Open Source VistA EHR Software Development

By Dick Weisinger

The Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense are teaming up to build a common Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.  The new system is to be based on the VA’s Open Source software known as VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems

Records Management: NARA reorganizes as Federal Agencies Struggle

By Dick Weisinger

NARA has been struggling to modernize and develop a new and efficient electronic records management system for the past six years, but they have had endless problems.  NARA’s records/digitization project to modernize government has experienced setbacks and huge cost overruns.