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Big Data: Driver of Enterprise Software Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are spending on Big Data.  $29 billion this year, according to Gartner.  Of the $29 billion, $5.5 billion is being spent on software while the remainder is going to IT services.  That’s about a factor of five ratio between…

Cloud Computing: Businesses Move Content Into the Cloud to Enable Better Collaboration

By Dick Weisinger

Many companies are creating plans for moving their documents and internal content to the cloud.  In fact, based on the AIIM report Content in the Cloud — making the right decision, 42 percent of companies have already developed plans to…

Big Data: VC's Current Favorite 'Investment Theme' is Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner forecasts that IT spending on Big Data will grow from $27 billion in 2012 to $55 billion in 2016.  IDC, more conservatively, forecasts that Big Data spending will increase from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015.…

Technology: The Coming of the Technological Singularity

By Dick Weisinger

It’s called the ‘technological singularity’, or sometimes just the ‘singularity’.  It’s the point in the future where machine intelligence has matured so far as to be on par with or superior to human intelligence.  It’s an idea that was first…

Social Collaboration: Businesses Become More Social

By Dick Weisinger

Social software tools are increasingly being used for internal collaboration and communication in businesses. Rob Howard, Telligent Founder and CTO , said that “Social is the new normal – people expect social capabilities [on the job] to help them collaborate with…