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Harris Corporation Cuts Engineering Change Time in Half to Accelerate Time to Market

Harris Corporation is an international information technology company focused on providing assured communications - anytime and anywhere. Harris found that it already learned a lot of lessons about its supply chain downstream - for example, from which vendors it should purchase supplies, which parts it should use, and how its...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Harris Corp., Product Development, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

US Census: The future is paper

So it's not just elections. Seems that paper is the way to go for the national Census, as well. A $600 million contract to Harris Corp. to design and create handheld computers for the census takers is now just yet another government IT fiasco, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, plans to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Government, Handhelds, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau

  The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Harris Corporation Streamlines Manufacturing Assembly Operations

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, serves government, defense, and commercial markets. Harris Corporation wanted to provide product design, implementation, and testing teams with instant access to product data and information and communicate change requests and assembly instructions. The challenge was to unlock highly technical information to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Manufacturing, Government

Case studies 2008-03-01

Additional Resources

FAA hit with network glitch; Flight plans go manual

Another glitch with a linux network? Its hard to believe people still use it for anything critical like the FAA and flight tracking. Its a toy OS and should not be used when the lives of people are dependent upon it.Cisco supplies the network backboneIt will be interesting to see...

Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, network, FAA, operating system, Flight Plan, network glitch, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Rockefeller makes support for open source explicit

Rockefeller makes support for open source explicitWhat's the difference?You state: "While introducing his bill Rockefeller did not mention Medsphere, whose software is installed at many state hospitals. Instead he focused on the Veteran Administration?s VistA system, and the NHIN-Connect system for linking medical records installed by Harris Corp., which includes...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, open source, Rockefeller, tax

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

News to know: RSA, AMD; Yahoo; Windows 8; $200 'Mac'

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. RSA Conference: Tom Foremski: A conversation with Check Point's Gil Schwed Symantec CEO: The future of security [video] RSA chief calls for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, RSA Security Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-04-22

3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage

Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...

Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-08-14

News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

News to know: Microhoo; Adobe patch; Windows bloat; AMD

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer? Garett Rogers: Google gets business from Yahoo...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...

Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-27

News to know: Office 14; Yahoo; Net neutrality; Android SDK

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14 to add more online document sharing MSDN subscribers: Vista SP1 to hit by the end of this week Robin Harris: Protein nanotech in next gen storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SDK, Net Neutrality, Microsoft Corp., EchoSign 3.0, Nanotechnology, Linux, Web Browsers, Federal Government, Middleware, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Government, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: final bonus round

Content is king Warner Brothers decision to abandon HD DVD is the confirmation - for those who needed it - that Blu-ray has indeed won the battle for dominant high-def video format. Now only General Electric Co.'s Universal Pictures and Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures support HD DVD. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Disk, HD-DVD, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, Sales Strategy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales Force Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-01-05

News to know: IE's future; QuickTime patch; Digg; 2.5 TB storage

Notable headlines:HP touts new mold for the chip industry. George Ou: Setting up the 2.5 TB hot-swap array. Robin Harris: How to REALLY erase a hard drive. Vonage requests retrial in Verizon patent dispute.Mary Jo Foley: Whats next for Internet Explorer? Microsoft opens up a little. Jasper: Dynamic languages meet...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Why Apple's board is standing by Jobs

Why Apple's board is standing by JobsCan you say DUH?Let's see, those that made the most money are standing behind the decision. Can you say DUH???Steve Jobs '08"...and an Apple on every desk."Take heartfor amongst this world of corporate corruption, greed and unethical behavior there shines a beacon of...

Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Marketing research, job, board, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., financial, vision

Discussion threads 2007-02-01

For the National Archive, a new e-records system built by Lockheed Martin

The National Archives has awarded a $308 million contract to Lockheed Martin to build an electronic records system. Computerworld quotes Ken Thibodeau, director of the Electronic Records Archives. The system will do three basic things. It will start modernizing the National Archives...

Tags: electronic record, National Archives, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-12

H-1B visa limit reached

H-1B visa limit reachedIf a company needs a H1BIf a company says they need a H1B....Get them to send their job spec to Immigration, Immigration can send it round the US job agencies and see if they can fill it with US staff.If they can fill it, then the company...

Tags: Group Inc., H1B, H-1B visa, H-1B

Discussion threads 2004-02-18