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Enterprise Search: An Exception in the Recession

By Dick Weisinger

The economy has been tanking, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked at the numbers from the search and discovery software market.  IDC is reporting that the search market grew 19 percent in 2008 to $2.1 billion, significantly outperforming…

Content Management: CEVAs – Content Enabled Vertical Applications

By Dick Weisinger

In an attempt to describe information-heavy applications that focus on a specific area or industry, Gartner coined the term CEVA (Content enabled vertical application) a few years back.  CEVAs are are a new generation of content applications that are now…

Technology: The Great Recession Snuffs Out the IT Boom

By Dick Weisinger

The IT industry was poised for explosive growth just prior to the fall of 2008 when the economy collapsed.  That’s the conclusion of Forrester Research based on new numbers released by the US Department of Commerce. New data shows that…

Compliance: International Standards Around Records Management

By Dick Weisinger

The fiscal crisis has brought along with it cries for reform of a system that many people say is broke. But there is some debate about which system and exactly what it is that is broke.  In any event, reform…

ECM: Search Depends on Clean MetaData

By Dick Weisinger

Accurate search depends on clean metadata, and Google’s on-line book project is an example of how not to handle metadata.  After studying the project, researcher Geoffrey Nunberg from the UC Berkeley School of Information came to the conclusion that the…