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- Army Future Combat price tag rising
- The Army's exciting new Future Combat Systems project - which would put video cameras on soldiers' helmets and display wirelessly transmitted data to their goggles - is in big trouble, GovExec.com reports. The Congressional Budget Office figure the program could eat up as much as half of the...
- Tags: FCS, Army
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- CBO's Revised Method for Estimating and Projecting Potential TFP
- Potential total factor productivity TFP is a key input in the 10-year economic and budget projections that the Congressional Budget Office CBO periodically issues. This paper describes a change in the method used by CBO in its January 2005 Budget and Economic Outlook to estimate potential TFP over history and...
- Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Total Factor Productivity, CBO, Potential Total Factor Productivity
- White papers 2005-01-24
- Congressional economists tackle copyright issues
- Congressional economists tackle copyright issuesWish this article had more informationIs there a pdf? Where's the link? Any members of congress actually reading this?US Congress?We are talking about the US Congress, right? The reason I ask is that report sounded vaguely like common sense, so I assumed it must have...
- Tags: Asset management, Government, Google Inc., U.S. Congress, CBO, asset, John L. Ries
- Discussion threads 2004-08-10
- Cost Control: Inside the Oracle Optimizer
- Oracle's Cost-Based SQL Optimizer CBO is an extremely sophisticated component of Oracle that governs the execution for every Oracle query. The CBO has evolved into one of the world's most sophisticated software components, and it has the challenging job of evaluating any SQL statement and generating the "Best" execution plan...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cost Control, CBO, Tools & Techniques, Financial Services, Programming Languages, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- Did Congressional Budget Office call health IT savings bunk?
- The headline is the Congressional Budget Office says a claim by RAND Corp. the nation will save $77 billion through heavy use of IT in health care is bunk. But that's not the whole story. The CBO, a bipartisan body which helps Congress formulate...
- Tags: Information Technology, Congressional Budget Office, Blog, Health Care, Automation, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Upgrading From Oracle Database 9i to 10g: What to Expect From the Optimizer
- Since its introduction in Oracle 7.0, people have been fascinated and intimidated by the Cost-Based Optimizer CBO and the statistics that feed it. It has long been felt that the internals of the CBO were shrouded in mystery and that a degree in wizardry was needed to work with it....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle9i, Oracle Database, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?
- For those expecting medical spending to ride out the coming recession, a new Congressional Budget Office study should give you pause. The study's conclusion sounds simple and non-controversial: Better information about the costs and benefits of different treatment options—through research on the comparative effectiveness of those options—could...
- Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Children, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- The Internet must not be proprietary
- The Internet must not be proprietaryMonopolies are bad.I agree. Unfortunately the trend in North America is that choices are decreasing. This need not be a bad thing as long as the 'remaining' market players do a good job. But history has shown that once competition decreases, quality of service goes...
- Tags: Government, Govt, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-24
- Avaya Case Study: Midwestern Hospitals and Clinics
- In today's healthcare industry, the paperwork and coordination required between patient, facility and insurer can be daunting. The healthcare system needed a solution that would automate two critical applications for hospitals in its network. The hospital system selected an Avaya Interactive Response IR application and IQ Services, an Avaya DeveloperConnection...
- Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Avaya Inc., Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- What Is a Current-Law Economic Baseline?
- The Congressional Budget Office CBO produces forecasts for the U.S. economy twice each year. Unlike other forecasters, CBO is required to produce a very specific kind of forecast - called a current-law economic baseline - because CBO's forecast must be consistent with the conventions of a baseline for the federal...
- Tags: Baseline, Congressional Budget Office
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Migrating to the Cost-Based Optimizer
- In Oracle Database 10g, only one query optimizer is supported: the Cost-Based Optimizer CBO. Oracle's legacy optimizer, the Rule-Based Optimizer RBO, is no longer supported. While the majority of applications running on Oracle today use the CBO, some applications continue to use the RBO. This paper describes the steps in...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Understanding Optimization
- Since its introduction in Oracle7, the Cost-Based Optimizer CBO has become more valuable and relevant with each new release of the Oracle database while its counterpart, the Rule-Based Optimizer RBO, has become increasingly less so. The difference between the two optimizers is relatively clear: The CBO chooses the best path...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Optimization, Oracle Database, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-01-01
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