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Technology: Long Java! Hello Erlang!

By Dick Weisinger

Java, as we know it, has only been around for a little over a decade. C++ has been around for nearly three decades. Basic is forty years old, and Fortran is more than fifty years old. In between there have…

SOA: ROI Questioned

By Dick Weisinger

Only 37 percent of enterprises employing SOA are seeing any return on their investment. That’s the conclusion of a recent report done by Nucleus Research and Knowledgestorm. It’s a statistic that knocks the wind out of a lot of recent…

ECM: Steps for Successful Data Migration Projects

By Dick Weisinger

Here are some things to think about before beginning a data migration project: Understand your data. Where is it located? How big is it now? What is its growth path? What security is needed to protect the data? How many…

Data Archival: Unlocking Data in Old File Formats

By Dick Weisinger

New technologies have greatly simplified the process of creating and publishing information, but many worry that today’s data being archived electronically is in danger of no longer being viewable as rapid cycles of technology change quickly obsolete the software and…

Technology: Is Data Mining Misguided?

By Dick Weisinger

Data mining is a technique that tries to sort through massive amounts of data to extract useful information. It is often used by business intelligence, financial analysis and marketing organizations. But now some are saying that data mining is not…