Virginia Backaitis News & Articles

Ask the average IT professional to name SAP’s claims to fame, and chances are they’ll tell you about its enterprise business applications such as enterprise resource planning (SAP ERP), enterprise data warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects and so on.

Everyone wants what Dick Tracy had -- a smart watch that’s way ahead of its time.

This ain't Larry Ellison's locked down world. Unlike some other industry vendors, SAP isn't aiming to be the alpha and omega of Corporate IT. Instead the Enterprise application turned database platform provider chooses to focus on what it does best and builds deep partnerships with others in the stack.

If it happens to me, it happens to you. You type the URL of a business that you e-frequent into your browser and watch the site load. The content that shows up on the landing page is generic, and it doesn’t offer you anything that you don’t already own or have decided not to buy. 

While stock market news isn't something that usually gets us excited, the sharp slide in the price of VMware shares warrant attention.

If you haven’t yet heard much about Hortonworks, the youngest of the three primary commercial vendors that develop, distribute and support Enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop, pay attention.

In the Enterprise of yesteryear, Information Management was typically an either/or proposition.

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night.

Mark Zuckerberg, move over. Eric Migicovsky has arrived. He’s the creator of the ever-so-cool Pebble Watch which offers many of the same features of your smartphone via a screen you wear on your wrist. 

Contributor Virginia Backaitis has been following some of the companies she covers since their inception. This perspective adds a depth and level of understanding to her articles, which make following enterprise content management as addictive as following your favorite show. Read what Virginia had to say about the field in this interview.

Some say that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are at their best when they are boring.

I respectfully disagree.

“Big Data” was all the rage in 2012. Everyone from your company’s president, to President Obama to a passerby on Main Street had something to say about it. Whether any of them could actually define the term was another matter; not even the experts seem to agree on what it means.

For a long time Documentum was known as the 800-pound gorilla of the Enterprise Content Management world, a force to be reckoned with, but not exactly sexy or sleek.  

If you really listen when people talk, you can learn some amazing things. And in an age where chatter about the Cloud, Big Data and the shortage of Data Scientists has gone viral, there’s a quieter, compelling conversation going on. 

The next wave of computing will be about Big Data App development.

Oracle had better watch its back. There’s a new(ish) database player on the market that wants to eat its lunch; dinner, breakfast and dessert too, for that matter. Say hello to MongoDB.