ROI and Metrics

All of the discussions lately about the utility vs risks of social media, and a recent posting by Christian Buckley on “Preventing Productivity Leakage” got me thinking a bit about how little we ha... read more

The Ocean of Big Data – II

After writing the last blog on The Ocean of Big Data and its seeming repetition of past Data Warehousing implementation issues and challenges, I decided to further “educate” myself. Who knows, mayb... read more

The Ocean of Big Data

We have all heard the phrase “That’s like trying to boil the ocean.” We hear this phrase when it appears we are trying to do too much and are probably going to fail as inadequate manpower, resource... read more

PDF Generated Gibberish

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I recently enjoyed the extensive discussion on this blog created when Serge Huber, CTO for Jahia Solutions, posted the blog entitled “After Flash, why PDF must die.”  The posting and comments conta... read more

Are SMBs Getting Forgotten?

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One thing that I find a bit of concern when watching technologies being developed and marketed is that Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMBs) are often forgotten with respect to software applicat... read more

Do Acquisitions Sometimes Kill Needed Functionality?

Innovation by acquisition has become a major corporate strategy for some business entities. Why select among highly competitive internal Research and Development projects to fund technologies for t... read more

Romney Wins by Eight (Paper) Votes

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Yesterday’s political headlines in the United States regarding Mitt Romney winning the Republican Caucus in Iowa had as many lessons for technology purveyors as for the purveyors of political comme... read more

Hard Disk Not Exist! What Happens Next?

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Two weeks ago after boarding an airplane during business travel, the message my notebook computer booted up was “Hard Disk Not Exist”. (Excellent English programmer grammar must not be expected I s... read more

Garbage Internet e-Records

Despite our constant use of the Internet to create e-records by using Web sites, I am still amazed at how many ways the records creation process is subverted or undermined. In the paper world a rec... read more

The ERM System Administrator Dilemma

Like apples and oranges, Information Technology systems managers and Records Managers act, think and feel differently, though they are similar in many ways. Both IT system managers and ERM software... read more

E-Calendar Records

As amazing as technology systems are in their ability to enhance creating, sharing, and processing information more efficiently and effectively, it still amazes me how many ways we discover that th... read more

IRS Thinks a QuickBooks Database is a Record!

What is a “record” in a collection of data? How about a few rows of data with associated metadata from a database table? Queries for specific data formatted into printable reports have often been c... read more

Technology Dependency Planning

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Information technology systems running on electronics make our lives and workplaces more productive and enjoyable. But increasingly this comes with often burdensome new responsibilities and unfores... read more

4 Consistent Reasons for RFP Frustrations

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It was of some interest to me a couple of weeks ago when I read on the AIIM Expert Blogs some comments about Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Bud Porter-Roth’s reply (http://www.aiim.org/community... read more

The Information Media Continuum

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When will we all become paperless? Never! Despite being a proponent of managing and storing records in electronic format (most of the time), I am continually amazed at the solid entrenchment of pap... read more

Structured vs Unstructured Records– Really?

One of the things that always amazes me is how the proverb “the more things change, the more they stay the same” still applies today in the world where technology and recordkeeping concepts merge. ... read more

Choices, Choices Everywhere for Imaging

When was the last time you attended an AIIM International or ARMA International Conference and could actually make all of the events that you needed to attend or get together with all of the people... read more