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Agency Merger and Managerial Flexibility in the Department of Homeland Security
White Papers This report examines the issues of agency merger and managerial flexibility in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The mission of DHS was to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and...
[January 12, 2005, 2:00]
Agency Science Clippings Widget
Downloads Shows latest news clippings (with links) from Agency Science (www.agencyscience.com) network. Agency Science is specialised in delivering breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries. Main topics covered include physics, chemistry, geology...
[January 26, 2009, 15:18]
Agency-Wide Purchasing Reporting Reduces Procurement Costs
White Papers With 90,000 employees, the Bundesagentur fu Arbeit (BA), Germany's federal employment agency, is the second-largest public sector customer after the German Federal Armed Forces. The company wanted a fully integrated system that maps all procurement...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Going Public with Asymmetric Information, Agency Costs and Dynamic Trading
White Papers We study the problem of a firm that is controlled by a large shareholder and is going public in the presence of a agency problems, asymmetric information and trading of shares over time. In this multiperiod signaling game, a shareholder-manager can...
[September 15, 2003, 1:19]
Agency Provides Better Service and Improves Efficiency With New IT Architecture
White Papers Working with BearingPoint, a Microsoft global alliance partner and Gold Certified Partner, the agency deployed a three-tiered IT architecture using a variety of components, including Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Wireless Security at a Federal Agency
White Papers The agency sought a technical solution that could do the job with a minimum of user interaction. The agency needed the ability to differentiate access rights, depending on the privileges of the group that the user belongs to.
[March 12, 2009, 0:23]
MPs attack IT 'mess' at Asset Recovery Agency
News A failure to invest in IT left the Assets Recovery Agency unable to manage either its case load or staff resources adequately, a report from the Public Accounts Committee, published on Friday, has claimed.
[October 15, 2007, 16:19]
Military agency to use Microsoft's Virtual Earth
News Microsoft is collaborating with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a division of the US Department of Defense, on its Virtual Earth technology. The NGA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and "provides timely, relevant and...
[May 19, 2006, 9:50]
Dell Case Study: Michigan Family Independent Agency
White Papers Formerly Michigan's Department of Social Services, the Family Independence Agency serves the people of Michigan throughout the state in approximately 150 locations with over 13,000 employees. The Family Independence Agency needed to find a way to...
[August 16, 2004, 0:00]
Federal Government Agency Implements Oracle's Web-Enabled Federal Financial Applications
White Papers Officials at a cabinet-level U.S.federal government agency determined that its 20-year-old legacy financial system was nearing the end of its life cycle. Throughout its service life, the legacy system had been used in non-standard ways by the...
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Government Agency Makes Smart Move to 3Com Solution
White Papers This system needed to provide a full range of voice and data services to its users and scale to accommodate the agency's growth. COFEPRIS recognized that moving the old telephony and data networks to the new facility was cost-prohibitive.
[May 4, 2004, 0:00]
Environment Agency swallows tablets
News The Environment Agency is rolling out tablet PCs to its inspectors in an attempt to improve productivity and limit the impact on the environment. We are looking to provide more support for the people actually doing the inspections," said Gerry...
[June 30, 2006, 15:55]
Gov't laptop ban hits driving-agency performance
News The government ban on the movement of encrypted data triggered a performance slump at the UK's driving safety agency and forced it to temporarily revert from electronic to paper-based processes. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) saw...
[April 7, 2008, 11:52]
Federal government agencies: Achieving the ultimate state of fitness where agency goals and IT are perfectly synchronized.
White Papers And in the end, it becomes difficult to achieve your agency’s mission, fulfill legislative mandates, and deliver better service to citizens, businesses, and other agencies. Federal agencies are continually challenged by the need to add new services...
[January 13, 2005, 2:00]
IBM Case Study: Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
White Papers The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency. With the recent developments in the world surrounding terrorists and terrorism, it is extremely important that DISA explores new technologies that will enable the different branches...
[January 12, 2005, 23:00]
EMC Dantz Retrospect Allows Advertising Agency to Back Up Directly to Disk
White Papers Inc.a marketing advertising agency located near Montreal, Canada. In 2000, a group of former students convinced Stephen C. Holtzman, the Macintosh Administrative Technician at Dawson College, to become the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for D-ZIGN...
[November 14, 2008, 0:20]
Federal Enterprise Architecture: Realigning IT to Efficiently Achieve Agency Goals
White Papers This paper explains how improving government operations and identifying guidelines for design, implementation and management is critical so the FEA can deliver on its promise to improve agency effectiveness and help ensure compliance with federal...
[October 21, 2004, 3:00]
Open Learning Agency Builds Self-Service Web Sites, Realizes Immediate Efficiencies and Cost Savings
White Papers The Open Learning Agency (OLA) is internationally recognized as the largest distance educator in British Columbia. Oracle9iAS allowed the Agency to seamlessly create self-service portals for three different Web sites - one for OLA employees, one...
[February 4, 2005, 23:00]
Improving the Top and Bottom Lines through Agile Insurance Agency Automation
White Papers Improving agency operations through technology efficiencies and streamlined workflows is the foundational work of an agency automation system. Join this webcast for a 30 minute discussion and learn how Nexsure can help can accelerate your business...
[October 2, 2004, 0:00]
UNICOM Technology Group, Inc. Case Study: New England Government Agency
White Papers The state agency being outlined is a state and federally supported agency. To achieve these objectives, the agency needed to build a technology infrastructure to allow for resource sharing and more universal database access.
[January 27, 2005, 23:00]
