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Cost Control Through Remote Control: A Practical Approach To Reducing The Cost Of Supporting PC's In A Multi-Platform Environment
White Papers The single largest cost component is the time wasted by end users trying to help themselves or help their colleagues with problems best left to the IS department. While the price for personal computers continues to decline, the actual cost to own...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Techniques To Improve The Performance Of TCP In A Mixed Bluetooth And WLAN Environment
White Papers A major challenge for the WLAN technology stems from having to share the 2.4 GHz ISM band with other wireless devices such as Bluetooth radios. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the use of techniques to mitigate the effects of...
[November 15, 2005, 0:00]
A 'Knowledge Enabled' Environment: Knowldege Management At The Australian Bureau Of Statstics
White Papers This paper describes an enterprise approach to managing organisational knowledge. First, examining why an emphasis on knowledge management (KM) came about; what processes were put in place to nurture KM; ABS' KM strategy and model; early efforts to...
[September 1, 2004, 6:31]
Leading Community Health Organization Relies On Powerful Distributed Transaction Integrator Software And ClearPath NX4800 Server To Provide Web-Based Services
White Papers The mission of the Jefferson County Department of Heath (JCDH) is to preserve, protect, and enhance the general health and environment of the community it serves. The department also works closely with hospitals and outside clinics, providing a...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Tailoring DoDAF For Service Oriented Architectures: A Recommended Guide
White Papers With acceptance of Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) and "Net-centricity", the Department of Defense (DoD) is moving towards a dynamic producer/consumer environment. This paper provides guidance on how to use the Department of Defense Architecture...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Sourcing And Acquisition: Challenges Facing The Department Of Defense
White Papers The continuing war on terrorism, regional instability, demographic and technological changes, as well as the federal government's short-and long-term budget pressures have created a challenging environment for the Department of Defense.
[May 31, 2005, 3:00]
ManageSoft Case Study: Dept Of Land Information
White Papers The state government department needed to implement a new standard operating environment and roll out Active Directory, after a merger with another government department. With a distributed network and limited IT resources, the new department...
[October 20, 2004, 0:00]
NZ Department Of Conservation Partners With Fujitsu For IT Upgrade And Management
White Papers To complicate matters, the way in which the Department's infrastructure grew over the previous ten years had led to a non-standard environment that was difficult to maintain. In 1998, with the Year 2000 approaching, the New Zealand Department of...
[July 15, 2004, 0:00]
Borland Delphi: An OASIS For The U.S. Department Of Labor
White Papers Given the range of functionality required, programmers for the department chose Borland Delphi as the development environment for this project, which came to be known as OASIS (OWCP Automated System for Imaging Services).
[May 14, 2004, 1:03]
New NPfIT Minister Announced
News He was previously minister for local environment, marine and animal welfare at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), having initially joined Defra in June 2003 as nature conservation and fisheries minister.
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
Minister's Wiki Experiment Suspended
News Government minister David Miliband has vowed to continue experimenting with online engagement after his department's first move into wiki-policy ended in disarray. In a posting on his blog, Miliband said that his department had "demonstrated the...
[September 6, 2006, 16:25]
Educational System Cuts Spam, Millions In Costs, With Hosted E-Mail Filtering Solution
White Papers The Kentucky Department of Education manages the public educational system for the state's 174 school districts. Since then, the department has seen improved protection against spam while realizing millions of dollars in savings related to e-mail...
[June 11, 2008, 1:01]
Chancellor Boosts UK IT Industry Hopes
News A study to examine the current planning laws will be undertaken in a joint venture between the Department of the Environment (DfEE) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The planning system is about securing the needs of the environment...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
A Very Wiki Situation
Leader The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), a name in need of a Wiki edit if ever there was one, responded by shutting down the edit function of the Wiki — slamming the door in the face of guests and gate crashers alike.
[September 7, 2006, 17:25]
IT-business Degree Spawns First Graduates
News McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT graduate programme in Newcastle, to start this September; while Broom will take up a post with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working within the procurement department.
[July 25, 2008, 15:32]
Government: Open Source Could Halve School IT Bills
Talkback That's asking a lot in my opinion and should at the very least justify an investment in investigating alternative total solutions (many organizations make the mistake of testing out only a piece of the pie and then failing along the way rather...
[May 11, 2005, 17:40]
Managing The Cost Of Complexity
News A shop will sometimes use only Microsoft Windows even in its graphics department even though it would reduce problems and the need to rework by having the graphics department work on a Macintosh. It is decisions like that one, and the hundreds that...
[June 6, 2005, 11:45]
Five Steps To Secure Your Desktops
News The results of this evaluation should be discussed with your organisation's safety department or building management. In making such an evaluation, your IT department should seek input from the employees in the company who have the clearest...
[July 22, 2002, 14:02]
Build A Patch-management Policy
News The department will also assess the affected patch for criticality relevant to each platform (for example, servers, desktops, printers and so on). If NetOps categorises a patch as an Emergency, the department considers it an imminent threat to XYZ...
[August 29, 2006, 17:20]
Hacking Fears Hit E-voting Plans
News But a spokesperson for the Department of the Environment, which is responsible for e-voting, said the government fully intends to push on with the programme. The department is happy that the proprietary system which had been "developed over a...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
