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Technology: Strong-Hand Buyouts

By Dick Weisinger

With tough economic times, enterprise software companies, like companies from many other industries, are doing their best to weather the difficulty.  And big companies with cash on hand are capitalizing on the general weakness and snatching up bargains.  John Chambers…

Enterprise Software: Don't Bank on it

By Dick Weisinger

As the financial crisis wears on we’ve been witness to a steady string of failures and mergers of financial institutions.  While the merged survivors are lucky to still exist, the next step of mending and merging their IT systems might…

Google: Structured Data is Hard

By Dick Weisinger

We talk a lot about how hard it is to unlock the data stored in spreadsheets, powerpoints, and text documents — unstructured data.  Generally the assumption has been that searching for data stored in structured database tables is easy and…

Business Intelligence: Does it Really Help?

By Dick Weisinger

On Friday we listed the top 9 ‘innovative information access’ companies as ranked by IDC.  The interesting commonality among companies in the list was that half or more of them are classified as ‘Business Intelligence’ (BI) companies. In this recessionary…

Enterprise Software: Not for Me!

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester Research is recommending that customers ditch any software labeled as ‘enterprise’.  Why?  Software bloat and myriads of features that many customers don’t use.  Not only that, Forrester says that brand-name software from big vendors is often overpriced and overly…