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Enterprise Search: Hard to Get Right

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise search is hard. While Google has managed to lock up the market for Internet search, they have been far less successful in delivering a solution that can meet the needs of the enterprise. Internet search and enterprise search are…

Compliance: New Financial Data Format Standard to Further Increase Regulatory Costs

By Dick Weisinger

In October 2005, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve Board launched an XBRL (eXtensible business reporting language) project that mandates banks to submit quarterly reports in XBRL format. 8300 banks are now participating. The SEC…

Storage: HIPAA Drives Health Care Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like Multiscan CT and 3D MRI machines are revolutionizing the practice of medicine, but these technologies can churn out gigabytes of data in seconds. A single multiscan CT image can be one gigabyte. HIPAA requirements are that adult medical…

Enterprise2.0: Web 2.0 for Business

By Dick Weisinger

A new Forrester report is out speculating about how Web 2.0 will continue to have an influence in 2008. They predict more of the same, only with more acceptance: blogs, wikis, and social networking are all expected to become more…

Enterprise Search: End of One Chapter, Start of Another

By Dick Weisinger

A few weeks back Microsoft paid $1.2 billion for the Norwegian company Fast Search and Transfer. The deal hasn’t gone through yet, but it would be the sixth largest purchase ever for Microsoft. It’s a deal that Microsoft is hoping…