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Patents: New Court Case Challenges Software and Business Model Patents

By Dick Weisinger

Ten years ago the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) overturned a lower court decision that explicitly disallowed the patenting of business models. Since then the number of patents on business methods and software has grown dramatically.…

BI: Market Slowdown Coming

By Dick Weisinger

The Business Intelligence (BI) market is expected to remain in double-digit growth through 2011, and after that fall into single digit growth. That’s the conclusion of a Gartner report on the state of the BI market. While BI remains an…

SOA Governance: No Clear Winners in a Packed Space

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s magic quadrant is available for 2007 SOA Governance Technology Sets. SOA governance is the set of “processes that an enterprise puts in place to ensure that things are done … in accordance with best practices, architectural principles, government regulations,…

ECM: Commercial ECM Systems Fail to Address OCT

By Dick Weisinger

A report out of Ireland says that most commercial ECM systems are ignoring data created from Online Content Technologies (OCT). Email and Web Content capture capabilities have made it to people’s radars, but managing data from  Web 2.0 content generation…

Enterprise Software: Are Customers Winners After Megamergers?

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle, IBM, HP and SAP have been on a buying spree. Billion dollar plus purchases have become the norm as enterprise software companies are rapidly consolidating. In general, shareholders have been pleased with the transactions, but customers of these vendors…