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Virginia Leverages LogiXML Business Intelligence Products for Stimulus Website

The Commonwealth of Virginia has employed LogiXML Business Intelligence BI solutions in support of President Obama's Stimulus Package, leveraging its dashboard, reporting and analysis tools in an interactive web site. Created using Logi Info, the site reports project ideas submitted by citizens wishing to weigh in on how Virginia should...

Tags: Web Site, Virginia, LogiXML, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-06-12

Virginia DMV Enhances Decisions, Boosts Safety, Through Integration With Other Agencies

The Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles DMV wanted to see its data better used to help reduce the number and severity of traffic accidents in the state. But that idea required integrating its computer system with databases at other state agencies - and the department's aging mainframe couldn't...

Tags: Agency, Microsoft Corp., Integration, Virginia DMV, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Advertising & Promotion, Policies And Procedures, Mainframes, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Human Resources, Servers, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-05-21

Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia has given the green light for a large coal-burning plant to generate electricity. It's planned for the southwest corner of the state and is expected to require lots more Virginia coal. The utility has promised to burn only coal mined in Virginia Opponents...

Tags: Coal, Pollution, Plant, Virginia, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Enterprise Business Architecture: Version 1.0

Enterprise architecture EA in the Commonwealth starts with a strategic framework that is driven by the business of the enterprise, and the corresponding business strategies, visions and goals. An effective EA establishes a process that is focused on building and maintaining an enterprise-wide business, information, solutions, and technical infrastructure and...

Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Commonwealth Of Virginia, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-04-13

Additional Resources

Commonwealth fined $100k for not mandating antivirus software

If they will not force the use of AV softwarethen they will probally not force the use of alternate means of access.Hell, they should be fined for using Windows too!!NT.RE: Commonwealth fined $100k for not mandating antivirus softwareThey should be fined for not upgrading to the latest most secure version...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Commonwealth, antivirus software, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Virginia backs off demands for Facebook data

Minor nitpick..but VA is a Commonwealth...NTNTI am not a fan of people who claim to be injured that are not.I am not saying she is lieing or they are being overly burdensome with proof requirements. I think if they just spent the dough to watch her at her house,...

Tags: Facebook, privacy

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Max Baucus opens his kimono

PelosiObamaReidCare PORC is a Fascist Pig In a constitutional republic like ours, the government's powers are limited by a constitution that protects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. PelosiObamaReidCare PORC would violate the unalienable rights of patients, doctors, and business owners by forcing 1)...

Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, health care, Max Baucus, office visit, health insurance, kimono

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Petroleum Age continues

I recently blogged about a U.S. government report on energy resources on offshore energy sources. Currently the Interior Department is holding public hearings on the next steps toward exploiting those resources, from wind to oil. And in Virginia there's a business and political coalition saying, "Drill, baby, drill."...

Tags: Petroleum, Virginia, SEA, Taxes, Web Site Development, Telecom & Utilities, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Prince William County, Virginia: Cleaning Up a Mess of Paper Records

Prince William County is located southwest of Washington, DC, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The County was formed in 1730 by the General Assembly of the Colony of Virginia; it is home to more than 360,000 citizens and is home to such renowned sites as the Quantico Marine Base, the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Prince William County, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies 2009-02-01

Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation

Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigationPoints two and three are dubiousMind you, I tend to take the US Constitution a lot more literally than the US Supreme Court has during my lifetime, but..."Congress has violated the Constitution by putting the prosecution of a criminal statute in the...

Tags: Charlie Neeson, Constitution, Harvard, RIAA, RIAA litigation, U.S. Congress, litigation

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

Perceptive Software Case Study: Virginia Commonwealth University

No wonder Virginia Commonwealth University VCU is noted as one of the top 100 research universities in the United States. A Carnegie Research University, VCU has two major campuses in Richmond, Va., spanning more than 129 acres. Every year, the Office of Financial Aid disburses more than $130 million to...

Tags: University, Perceptive Software, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Process Improvement, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Quality, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-10-01

VA, MD responders get digital ID cards

Virginia and Maryland will be the first states to deliver high-tech credentials to police, firefighters and emergency workers to carry in a regional crisis. The program is limited to counties surrounding Washington DC. In Northern Virginia, 4,000 cards with digital fingerprints will be delivered to first responders. In Maryland counties,...

Tags: ID card, responder

Blog posts 2006-12-22

VA agencies skewered over weak security measures

The majority of Virginia government agencies are doing an unacceptable job of protecting the huge amounts of sensitive information entrusted to them, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on a state report. Of 104 state agencies surveyed, 80 percent had inadequate security programs, the report said. "There are significant risks...

Tags: Social Security, J. Kucharski, security, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, agency

Blog posts 2006-12-13

In VA, Webb's name cut off on some e-ballots

In Virginia, a computer glitch has caused U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb's last name to be cut off from the electronic ballot in in three major cities - Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. The mistake stems from the increased type size on the ballot,...

Tags: ballot

Blog posts 2006-10-25

The wrong way to do an assignment

A student at a Virginia University recently took the old adage "The only bad publicity is no publicity" to heart. In response to a school assignment to make his advertising teacher's six-year-old pug famous, the student posted a notice on MySpace that he would kill the dog, Tech...

Tags: VCU Adcenter

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Lithium buckyballs to store hydrogen?

Hydrogen fuel, which is an ideal energy carrier and environmentally friendly because it releases only water in the air, might one day power our cars and reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. But first we need to find ways to produce it -- and to store it. And now, researchers...

Tags: Virginia Commonwealth University, hydrogen

Blog posts 2006-07-26

States struggling to deal with digital documents

States struggling to deal with digital documentsPortabilityOfficial records should be platform and application independent. Kudos to Massachusetts for being the first and the best of luck to Minnesota. Hope this is just the beginning.Mass HolesThey can't even figure out if they are coming or going never mind set...

Tags: SECURITY, data format, open standard, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-25

Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?

Microsoft called Massachusetts' bluff and lost. One of Microsoft's biggest mistakes in what will prove to be a critical turning point for the Redmond-based company is that it sent the wrong men to Massachusetts' last hearing before that state set a new IT policy into stone: one that essentially...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Intellectual property, Commonwealth of Massachusett, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Blog posts 2005-09-26