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Technology: Making Sense of Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

There’s another standard that’s in the works for the world of unstructured data: Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). It is a technology that was developed at IBM and has recently been approved as a standard by OASIS. Wikipedia describes UIMA…

Technology: Which Way For Java?

By Dick Weisinger

Java Developers had mixed feelings about the news this past week that IBM plans to buy Sun Microsystems. Sun has long been criticized by developers in mismanging Java as a technology. They’ve been slow to open-source Java and heavy-handed in…

SaaS: Global Cloud Services to Grow 21% in 2009

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting that the global economic problems will help “cloud computing” services to grow rapidly this year.  Customers are looking for ways to cut costs during this time of shrinking budgets.  Gartner estimates that as much as $56.3 billion…

Records Management: Best Practices Not Practiced

By Dick Weisinger

Records Management best practices simply are not on the radar of most companies. Companies are not incorporating best practices into policy, and when they do, they often do not follow up with effective training and monitoring to ensure compliance with…

Knowledge Management: Keeping Tabs on Stimulus Dollar Spending

By Dick Weisinger

The massive amounts of money involved in the economic stimulus is causing a lot of worry of potential misuse or abuse of those funds. Members of the knowledge management community have banded together and approached the White House and Congress…