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SOA: SOA is Dead! Long Live Services Architecture!

By Dick Weisinger

Anne Thomas Manes of the Burton Group has declared SOA dead as a doorknob!  She wrote that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is…

Technology: Compliance and XBRL

By Dick Weisinger

Five years ago the fallout from financial catastrophes like Enron and WorldCom drove the Sarbanes-Oxley into being.  A year ago now the pendulum was beginning to ease and advocates for relaxing compliance regulations seemed to be getting greater recognition.  But…

Technology: Disruptive Technology of 2008 Continues to Disrupt in 2009

By Dick Weisinger

Saugatuck Technology lists the five areas that they predict will prove disruptive to IT and Technology in 2009. The list looks similar to the technologies that had big impacts in 2008: Open Source SaaS Cloud Computing Virtualization Social Computing The…

PLM: Still Nascent Market

By Dick Weisinger

PLM vendor offerings and buyer needs don’t align well. PLM stands for Product Lifecycle Management Technology. That’s the result of a report by the IDC company Manufacturing Insights. PLM tools are not addressing the top business goals and cost improvements…

Records Management: What Went Wrong?

By Dick Weisinger

NARA is too lopsided in its approach to Records Management with a narrow focus only documentation and preservation of records. It fails in addressing information management and the cost savings and efficiency.  An op-ed piece by Sprehe Information Management Associates…