Crowdsourcing, Globalization and the Information Age

by Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek More and more companies are choosing crowdsourcing as a way to outsource and innovate. From big corporations like Kraft Foods to sole proprietorships, companies are accessing software platforms to capture ideas and labor from an anonymous collection of people who can collectively accomplish a task. Whether it be R&D or…

Big Data or Drown – Managing and Tiering Content

by Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek For today’s companies, information overload is a fact of life. By all indications, the problem is only going to get worse. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe study estimated that by 2020, the amount of data in the world will grow 50-fold from its 2010 levels of 1.8 trillion gigabytes. The…