

2013 Healthcare Breach Report
by Jack Santos | April 14, 2014
If you have followed my blog, you know that I annually review the US HHS breach report, just to see what kind of year we had in healthcare security. Well, enough...

The Importance of Being Work Flow
by Jack Santos | March 20, 2014
In this era of Big Data we often forget that data without process is like a day without...well you get it. It being tax season in the US, I came across...

The Travesty of Security Questions
by Jack Santos | May 20, 2013
It used to be a good idea. Ask something that was immediately obvious and only knowable by YOU or a very few people – and make it the last line...

The Digitalization of Business
by Jack Santos | December 19, 2012
One of the things we talk about at Gartner is how computerization is changing business – not just back office systems (HR, CRM), but from a fundamental product perspective.
I...

Big Data: Rumsfeldian Thinking and Carl Sagan's Camera
by Jack Santos | November 12, 2012
“There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know....

Opportunity Knocking
by Jack Santos | October 1, 2012
We write a lot of research at Gartner about business process management, paperless office, workflow, organizational efficiency, outsourcing, etc etc etc. All fertile ground for automation.
So when mundane daily...

The Real Winners of Big Data
by Jack Santos | May 17, 2012
Arik Hesseldahl at the Wall Street Journal just uploaded the exhibits from the Oracle HP trial. Interesting reading. It is stunning how the stored collection of emails, PowerPoints, and the...

"Securing Big Data" - the Newest Fad?
by Ramon Krikken | May 10, 2012
It doesn't take a clairvoyant - or in this case, an research analyst - to see that "big data" is becoming (if it isn't already, perhaps) a major buzzword in...

Collaboration Mania
by Jack Santos | March 6, 2012
This email came in:
Hi all,
Since you haven’t all gotten into the habit of checking the <enter you favorite collaboration product here: Lotus Connections, MS SharePoint>, let me repost...