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The Barrier of CAD File Formats

By Dick Weisinger

CAD designers are some of the biggest victims of silo-ed information. Their dilemma is that while software tools continue to grow in sophistication and complexity, the ability to exchange that data with colleagues and partners can be challenging. A study…

Technology: Tracking Vendor Evolution

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has Magic and Quadrants. Forrester has Waves. Now CMSWatch has branded their own approach, a new kind of analyst chart, one that tries to show vendor evolution. It’s cool, but maybe they need to come up with a shorter…

Patents: New Court Case Challenges Software and Business Model Patents

By Dick Weisinger

Ten years ago the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) overturned a lower court decision that explicitly disallowed the patenting of business models. Since then the number of patents on business methods and software has grown dramatically.…

BI: Market Slowdown Coming

By Dick Weisinger

The Business Intelligence (BI) market is expected to remain in double-digit growth through 2011, and after that fall into single digit growth. That’s the conclusion of a Gartner report on the state of the BI market. While BI remains an…

Enterprise Software: Are Customers Winners After Megamergers?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP have been on a buying spree. Billion dollar plus purchases have become the norm as enterprise software companies are rapidly consolidating. In general, shareholders have been pleased with the transactions, but customers of these vendors…