Is Social Media Right for the Enterprise? Talking with Liferay

What follows is my discussion with Bryan Cheung, CEO and Co-Founder ofLiferay, Inc. In this podcast we discuss social collaboration tools for the enterprise: why they are needed, what they have picked up from Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Liferay’s Open Source collaboration tool. Give it a listen below. Listen to or download the […]

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Inter-Cloud Rock, Paper, Scissors: Service Brokers, Semantic Web or APIs?

…each cloud is a system unto itself. There is no way to express the idea of exchanging information between distinct computing clouds because there is no way to express the idea of “another cloud.” Nor is there any way to describe the information that is to be exchanged. Moreover, if the information contained in one […]

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AccessPlus Wins Three New Health Sector Contracts

Leading print management and business process specialist, AccessPlus has again shown its strength in the UK health sector by winning three new contracts; Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, NHS Direct and the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The three-year Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust contract, which commenced in April 2009, is for the procurement and management […]

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The boondoggle that is software maintenance fees

Annual software support and maintenance fees are something every customer loves to hate, and yet, for the most part we keep paying them. Technology managers fear “going naked,” right up until they replace the package. Meanwhile, the underlying economics keep vendors keen to promote what has become a major profit center for most. Image of […]

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Bringing Video to the Masses Part 2

Live from the Voices That Matter conference, author Richard Harrington reveals what’s next beyond YouTube and why offering consumers the ability to download your content is imperative. He also talks about Facebook’s platform, video user statistics, demographics, what constitutes an optimal distribution plan for publishers, and why “video is the new photography.” You can view […]

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BBC will share video with papers

The BBC is to share some of its video news material with newspaper websites for the first time.Four national newspapers – the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Independent – will be able to use content free of charge. The BBC is to share some of its video news material with newspaper websites for the […]

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Evolution of Records and Information Management

How did we get here from there? As rapidly as the world of IT changes, we often forget how recently nearly ALL business documents were paper. To understand where we’re going, here’s a brief look at recent history. By Gordon Hoke How did we get here? Despite the staunch efforts of AIIM, ARMA, and myriad […]

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An Introduction to LinkedIn: In Restrictions a Gold Mine

“I’ve been trying to find a way to use Facebook in a more professional manner and I’ve found it – it’s called LinkedIn.” Image via CrunchBase “I’ve been trying to find a way to use Facebook in a more professional manner and I’ve found it – it’s called LinkedIn.” Inevitably many users have an “aha” […]

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Tennis Channel Selects Spectra Logic for Digital Asset Management

Spectra Logic announced today that Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle, recently selected a Spectra® T950 robotic tape library with six LTO-4 drives and 950 activated slots to store and protect 50TB, or 946 hours of video footage. WithSpectra Logic, Tennis Channel now has […]

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