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Fannin County Land Development Puts a Stake in Its Future With Document Management, Imaging and Workflow Software

Located in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Fannin County was founded in the mid 1800s. By the time a Building Permit was approved (typically 2-3 weeks), the Land Development office had accumulated a paper file folder with 10- 15 pages of documentation and spent numerous hours processing...

Tags: Software, Document Management, Imaging, Building Permit, Workflow Software, FileVision

Case studies 2007-10-24

Nuremberg Building Authority Reduces Building Permit Processing Time by 25%

Builders know from painful experience that obtaining a building permit can sometimes take longer than building a house. To be able to process building applications more quickly and to integrate the participating departments simultaneously into the permission process, the Nuremberg Building Authority has replaced the paper-based process with an electronic...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Building Permit

Case studies 2007-10-01

Additional Resources

Nesox Email Marketer Business Edition 1.92 (Windows)

Nesox Email Marketer is a professional tracking supported e-mail marketing software and newsletter software for mailing list building, send and track personalized bulk e-mail and mass e-mail at your own computer. Email Marketer could be very handy for such areas as direct marketing, online marketing research, newsletter, customer relationship management...

Tags: Newsletter, Microsoft Windows, Nesox Solutions, Nesox Email Marketer, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Google Chrome Frame boosts IE speed up to Chrome levels

If only it was for Firefox......but still astonishing results!Could this be the start of hybrid browsers? Will there be a FF version?irrelevantNobody uses IE 7 or 8 because of security.Making a bad product worse is not what windoze users need.This shows again the virtues of FOSS vs proprietary software.Corporate IT...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome Frame, Google Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Putting a cloud into a box (container) the HP way

At the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas I got to a chance to tour a HP POD Performance Optimized Datacenter. A more suitable acronym would be "Portable Optimized Datacenter" because it is in a specially reinforced and equipped standard sized container and delivered on...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Building a vision for Government 2.0need for binding electionsIf Democracy 2.0 is only about more discussion then nothing is really going to change. We need binding elections on issues, that is, we need national ballot initiatives. In 24 states, we have ballot initiatives. Ballot initiatives permit public policy to catch...

Tags: Government, vision, ballot initiative, NI4D, National Initiative

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Intermedia - Pan Manager customer profile

Recently, I had a chance to exchange messages with Brent Rich, Intermedia's Director of Technical Operations. His organization has deployed a managed virtualized environment based upon Egenera's Pan Manager and a Dell hardware platform. Since I posted on the announcement of the Dell/Egenera relationship (see Egenera: New pals for PAN...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Solution, Intermedia, Egenera Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud

As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...

Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Does the Semantic Web matter?

My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum

Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)

Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)Witness reportedseeing a fat bald guy in his 50s running from the Apple campus. When he reached the street and looked back at the fire, the witnesses said he started jumping around the street - something like a...

Tags: 3G, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Can Silicon Valley's San Jose find its way?

San Jose suffered a massive calamity just a few years ago that cost it 225,000 jobs - nearly one quarter of its entire population - the worst job loss anywhere in the US since the Great Depression. The dotcom dotbomb from 2001 to 2003 was a period...

Tags: San Jose, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?

Microsoft unveiled its "End to End Trust" security vision and now the real work begins: Will anyone buy into it? At RSA, Microsoft rolled out a whitepaper that at the very least is quite the conversation piece. Reading through the whitepaper--something I encourage everyone...

Tags: Software, Audit, Privacy, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Identity, Accountability, Audit Data, Internet, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Windows Media Center meets cable TV in HD

Six months ago, after years of waiting, I finally had a chance to switch my Media Center setup over to a fully digital, cable-compatible, high-definition configuration. How has it worked out? Let's just say you'd have to pry the Media Center remote from my cold dead fingers. ...

Tags: Cable Television, Dell Computer Corp., Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, CableCard, Media Center PCs, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Microsoft+to+become+Micro-ad%3F

Microsoft+to+become+Micro-ad%3FVery, very risky acquisition. Just goes to show you how desperate MS is.This is a complete culture miss-match.The information superhighway......is getting cluttered with billboards. And it ain't pretty.I don't see the wisdom. Should buy Amazon.I could see a partnership revenue sharing with Yahoo to try to slow Google down, but...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usual

No nuces is good nucs? Blogosphere begs to differ with this blogger, as usualNuclear water useAs a pro-nuclear blogger working at Idaho Samizdat http://djysrv.blogspot.com, I get the question all the time about water use. It's important to note you walked into a current controversy over water use by...

Tags: Blogging, NEI, blogosphere, nuclear plant, fission

Discussion threads 2008-01-26

The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PC

The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PCNot a belt sanderThis version is way, way better than your wooden version. But wouldn't a random orbital sander work better? Belt sanders are pretty harsh.A very nice project however...I feel this blog is slowly losing relevance to the tech world. I...

Tags: Blogging, PC, LCD, belt sander, polycarbonate

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

China clamps down on video

Things just keep heading in the wrong direction for the Internet in China. The latest lovely throttling of people's communication rights is a new policy that only state-owned or controlled websites may show video, the AP reports. How'd you like to live in this society? ...

Tags: China, Online Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-03