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Biographical Information

David DeWalt

David DeWalt is president of the EMC Software Group at EMC Corporation. With 2005 revenues of $9.7 billion and nearly 27,000 employees worldwide, EMC is a leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management, helping organizations extract the maximum value from their information at the lowest total cost across every point in the information lifecycle. EMC also ranks as of one of the world's 10 largest software providers as measured by software revenue.

DeWalt reports to EMC president and CEO Joe Tucci. He joined EMC in 2003 through the acquisition of Documentum, a global leader in enterprise content management, where he served as president and CEO.

Articles by David DeWalt

Understanding the ERM Challenge

Corporate executives are painfully aware of the need for “compliance,” thanks to regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, industry-specific...

The Importance of Document and Image Processing to ILM

Paper is not going away. The goal of the paperless office is still a dream to most businesses. The reality is that most organizations are still dependent on paper-based transactions. Bid proposals, purchase orders, invoices, printed and hand-written forms and legal documents continue to consume reams upon reams of paper. Consider the examples of mortgage applications or insurance claim files which contain hundreds of pages each. Many organizational and operational issues originate from our continued dependence on paper, including the high cost of paper storage and the costly inefficiencies