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SaaS to Further Erode US IT?

By Dick Weisinger

InfoWorld‘s Immodest Predictions for 2007 are headlined in their December 18th issue.  They include: Sun Microsystems will bounce back with great technology and Open Source offerings CPU performance (64-bit and denser multi-cores) will trump “green” and low-watt Cisco will continue

SaaS: SMBs Set the Trend with SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise-class software is usually equated to big dollars that only big companies can afford.  The trend had long been for large enterprises to lead software adoption followed by lighter versions of similar software eventually trickling down for use at smaller companies.  But SaaS is turning

SaaS and SOA: Powerful synergies for next-generation applications

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS offloads hosting, maintenance and daily technical operations of IT onto an external provider.  SOA allows loosely-coupled networked data services to inter-communicate and act as building blocks for consumption by composite applications. Both of these emerging technologies provide new models for delivering IT

SaaS: Robust growth of SaaS market in Asia SME market

By Dick Weisinger

Springboard Research has published a report showing that SaaS in Asia Pacific was US$80 million in 2005 and that it is expected to grow roughly 80% each year through 2008.  The report is based on a survey they made of

Top 10 Trends in ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Here are 10 top trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space: Consolidation.  IBM/Filenet, Oracle/Stellent, Open Text/Hummingbird/Red Dot, EMC/Documentum/Captiva.  I’ve written about the consolidation trends here and here and here. Compliance.  Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA CPR-21, SEC 17a-4, and risk compliance are examples