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Technology: Dealing with 'Big Data'

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of data that companies and individuals are creating is growing incredibly quickly.  Some organizations have managed to collect massive data sets.  O’Reilly refers to these huge data sets as ‘Big Data’ — data sets that are in the…

ECM/CMIS: Building a Bridge Between Apps

By Dick Weisinger

The promise of the Content Management Interoperability Services specification is the ability to lower the barrier to sharing information between enterprise applications. Most organizations have their data scattered across a minimum of six different repositories.  And that makes getting a…

Technology: What to Make of Java?

By Dick Weisinger

Is Java still cool?  Is it relevant?  In the ’90s Java had great mindshare.  The ‘write once, run-anywhere’ slogan was an exciting promise to developers that their lives would be simplified. But things are changing.  With competition from languages like…

Business Intelligence: Strategy RoadMap + Data-Driven Culture = Superior Results

By Dick Weisinger

It seems rather obvious, but sometimes it is easy to forget, that the quality of Business Intelligence (BI) is directly related to the quality of the data from which the intelligence is derived.  It’s basically the ‘garbage in — garbage…

Technology: Paper Documents Become Smart

By Dick Weisinger

A major milestone in technology happened over Christmas — Amazon’s eBook sales surpassed the sales of their paper books for the first time ever. More of our lives continue to evolve around digitized and electronic data, and while many have…