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Data Centers and Technology: The Cloud is Ill-prepared for Disaster

By Dick Weisinger

It is human nature to avoid thinking about worst-case scenarios.  If something is working today, why worry about it until tomorrow?  The problem with that mode of operation though is that while we hope for the best and procrastinate in…

PLM: Same Vendors Continue to Dominate

By Dick Weisinger

The annual IDC PLM Marketscape report is out (free for download courtesy Siemens), and the vendors listed are not too much of a surprise.  Three distinct areas of PLM were analyzed in the report: Computer Aided Authoring (CAx). This category…

Enterprise Software: Does Your Organization Run too Many Apps?

By Dick Weisinger

It’s not at all unheard of to walk into a very large organization and to find that installed within the organization is a complete range of similar applications all running within different departments or divisions, all handling roughly the same…

Social Media and Collaboration: Best-in-Class Companies Lead the Pack in Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday we saw that despite the hype and studies documenting the benefits of collaboration technologies, many companies haven’t ventured into collaboration far beyond web conferencing.  And a new report from Aberdeen doesn’t even want to credit those companies for their…

Social Media and Collaboration: Despite the Hype, Most Businesses Aren't Ready

By Dick Weisinger

Collaboration technologies have consistently been shown to save companies money on travel, office space and IT spending.  Collaboration helps staff members locate information more quickly and be better informed about both their companies and their job tasks.  Collaboration is also…