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Compliance: Companies change focus for GRC dollars

By Dick Weisinger

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) costs will reach $32 billion in 2008, a 7.4 percent increase over 2007 costs. These are the results of a study performed by AMR Research. Interestingly, while overall compliance costs are rising, dollars going…

Technology: Build-Your-Own Data Center

By Dick Weisinger

Competitive advantage. It’s the secret ingredient of many highly successful companies. The problem is that today’s hard-to-copy innovations are often tomorrow’s bargain-priced commodities. One example is what’s happening now with data centers. The recipe for the secret ingredients behind the…

Technology: What elixir can defeat obsolesence?

By Dick Weisinger

Technology museums are packed with memories of years not too long gone of things that once seemed indispensable: the punch card, the slide rule, the stock ticker, the floppy disk. The mainframe? Think again. The mainframe is still with us…

SOA: Moving Beyond Web Services

By Dick Weisinger

JaBOWS — Just a Bunch of Web Services. That’s a term that ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick has used to describe what many companies have implemented. Web Services often are used as basic building blocks in creating SOA implementations, but Web…

PLM: Fueling Product Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

How is it that ever-more-sophisticated electronic gear can be pumped out at continutually shrinking prices in the face of inflation and rising labor wages? Many times the root of this magic is made possible by software. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)…