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Cloud Computing: Engineers and Manufacturers Feel the Force of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing and Social Computing technologies are beginning to have an effect on the areas of Engineering and Manufacturing. Just one example of this trend is the announcement by AutoDesk in December that they are entering the Product Lifecycle Management…

Cloud Computing: The Easy Stuff is Done with Tough Challenges Ahead

By Dick Weisinger

For the cloud, “the easy stuff is done,” declared Art Wittman in an InformationWeek wrap-up article re-capping the technology highlights for 2012.  Challenges in the areas of integration and security lie ahead for the cloud.  And those challenges are beginning to…

Master Data Management: Growth Fueled by Need to Better Track Social Media Data

By Dick Weisinger

Customer Master Data Management (MDM) is a scrubbed and consolidated data view of data obtained from many sources on vendor customers for analysis, reporting, and data sharing.  It provides consistency to sales, marketing and compliance groups within the vendor’s organization.…

Cloud Computing: DoD Mandates a Migration to the Private-Sector Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

The FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes detailed instructions for how Congress wishes the DoD  to fund IT initiatives, and it contains specific instructions that affect how agencies under the DoD can employ cloud services. Many of the instruction…

Technology: Are CIO's Destined to Become Technology Accountants?

By Dick Weisinger

Last June, a report by Gartner Inc. and the Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) reported a shift in the relationship between IT and business operations.  42 percent of IT organizations now report directly to the CFO, and in 45 percent of organizations,…