It’s been an absolutely fascinating week reading the output of Burton’s Catalyst Conference.  Thanks to Mark Dixon over at Sun for his great recap of the conference.  And to add to the chorus of voices, congratulations to Ian Glazer on his new job at Burton Group!
It’s Ian’s first post on the Burton Group blog that’s [...]

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Two recent Blog posts (by Kearns and JBohren) refer to a damning number - the high percentage of orphan accounts that exist in most applications and most large organizations. An “orphan” is an account that belongs to some person who’s left the organization (or never existed in the first place). It can’t be [...]

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I hesitated posting this entry since it seems more personal than business related. The “softer” side, if you will.
Tim Russert, who grew up 3 blocks from my father, moderator of NBC’s “Meet The Press” has passed on much too early. This is truly a tragic loss — to Buffalo, to politics, to family [...]

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Every once in a while, we get one of those “I coulda had a V8” items in the news. The recently announced Lending Tree breach appears to be one of those. From the reports, Lending Tree files were breached, and full credit files were sold to both other mortgage lenders, and to criminals.
These [...]

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I had the opportunity to sit in on a Eurekify webcast on Wednesday outlining and demoing the new V4 version of their Role & Compliance Management Server. I haven’t personally worked with Eurekify products for a few years. They are certainly well known for their Sage product, which performed enterprise role discovery/mining. [...]

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