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Poor Data Quality can Undermine Business Intelligence

By Dick Weisinger

Keeping data up to date and fresh is a global problem.  How many times have you searched the internet to find the information in the top results to be out-dated?  The same problem plagues data managed in enterprises. A Data Warehousing Institute’s study

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

Storage: Storage for SMBs now with Enterprise-Level Features

By Dick Weisinger

Falling storage prices and rising storage capacities are doing well in keeping pace with the ever-increasing storage demands imposed by regulations like HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.  A new generation of products are being introduced that target SMBs (Small and Medium Business)

Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley Guidance expected in December

By Dick Weisinger

Since Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations were passed after the Enron scandal, businesses, particularly those small and medium sized, have complained about Section 404 which they have viewed as being onerous to comply with.  The problem has been with the language of the ruling.  The

Sarbanes Oxley: Public comments on SOX Section 404

By Dick Weisinger

The Securities and Exchange Commission is holding a public meeting on December 13th to consider change requests to section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. It will be interesting to see what sort of proposals come up at that