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Mapping Rand McNally's Way to the Classroom

Rand McNally, the most trusted name on the map, is an industry leader in the mapping, routing, geographic reference, and trip-planning tool marketplace. The company wanted to create a new technology service for educators that provided a complete, interactive "One stop resource" for teaching K-12 classrooms. Rand McNally used Pathfinder...

Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Pathfinder Development, Productivity, Games, Personal Technology

Case studies 2008-01-01

The $100 billion every politician craves

The $100 billion every politician cravesDo you think it true...... that electronic recordkeeping, and sharing of the information, could save $100 million? You spoke of the politicians' endorsement but not of your own.Me, I'm not certain what electronic recordkeeping is supposed to replace profitably. Though the equipment and...

Tags: Litigation, fraud

Discussion threads 2007-10-02

Sapotek's free Browser-based desktop OS (complete with apps) launches this month

While in New York City last week for Digital Life, I stole some time to head down to TechSpace in Greenwich Village (the "Silicon Valley of Manhattan") where I interviewed on video Joshua Rand, co-founder and president of startup Sapotek: the soon-to-launch provider of a free browser-based desktop operating...

Tags: Desktop OS, Desktop, Developer, Google Inc., Google Apps, Ingersoll-Rand, Operating System, Web Browser, Sapotek, Desktoptwo, OpenOffice, Desktops, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Rand McNally GPS Navigator

Tags: RAND Corp.

Product reviews 2006-11-01

Understanding the Insider Threat: Proceedings of a March 2004 Workshop

The Advanced Research and Development Activity ARDA within the U.S. intelligence community IC has several research "thrusts," including one on advanced Information Assurance IA. These proceedings contain an overview of the findings from this workshop and the display charts from briefings given to workshop participants. This paper should be of...

Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Insider Threat, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-01-20

Biometrics: A Look at Facial Recognition

Biometrics is used for human recognition which consists of identification and verification. The terms differ significantly. With identification, the biometric system asks and attempts to answer the question, "Who is X?" In an identification application, the biometric device reads a sample and compares that sample against every record or template...

Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Facial Recognition, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2003-02-04

Can Biometrics Help the Army Solve an Identity Crisis?

The Army is having an identity crisis, and it affects both its wartime and peacetime operations. Simply put, the Army needs to ensure that the right people, and only the right people-can get access to its information systems, its weapons, and its many databases that serve the Army community. Biometrics-that...

Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Army, Biometrics-that, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers

Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited Maximizes Customer Focus With Expanded CRM Capabilities

Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited is a global manufacturer for the climate control, industrial solutions, infrastructure, security, and safety markets. While Ingersoll-Rand held the number one or two position in nearly every market in which it competes, the company saw the need to constantly improve its customer relationships in order to maintain...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ingersoll-Rand, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Case studies

Ingersoll-Rand: A Smoother Road to Cost Savings and User Productivity

Ingersoll-Rand Company wanted to replace aging, expensive telephony system and outdated voice-mail platform in its Corporate Technology Center (Huntersville, NC) The company also wanted to develop a strategy for cost control and new business enhancing applications and deploy a new contact center technology for its employee benefits call center. To...

Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Cisco Systems Inc., Call Centers, It Operations

Case studies

Oracle Case Study: Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited

Ingersoll-Rand is a leading manufacturer of construction products and industrial goods, operating more than 80 production facilities worldwide. The company wanted to communicate more effectively - and as a single organization - to Ingersoll-Rand's multi-brand dealer network. The challenge was to simplify use of the network by reducing the number...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Ingersoll-Rand, Portals, Internet, Web Technology, Networking

Case studies

Additional Resources

There is no pony plan for health care

There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

I... B... Wha?

The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia --  which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...

Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Reduce cost and administration overhead with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Organizations are embracing server virtualization as a means of saving money and simplifying management of their network server environment. This sample chapter from Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed offers a detailed introduction to the capabilities of Hyper-V technology and best practices for getting the most out of it. ...

Tags: Sams Publishing, Microsoft Windows Server, Administration, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Book chapters 2008-09-04

With FCC testing due soon, Google pushes white spaces

Google launched Free the Airwaves, a public advocacy site dedicated to pushing for what product manager Minnie Ingersoll calls "Wi-Fi on Steroids," meaning TV white spaces. Google and numerous other high-tech companies are pushing for the FCC to allow unlicensed use of the white spaces, much as...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-18

|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit

[Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...

Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise

Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...

Tags: Republic, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

40% of global R&D spendingis done by the US

70% of foreign scientists and engineers who received PhD’s from US universities remained in the country after receiving their degree. US accounts for 40% of all scientific R&D spending in the world, employs 70% of the world’s Nobel Prize winners and houses 75% of the world’s top 40 universities, Rand...

Tags: R&D, University, Research & Development, Business Operations, AM

Blog posts 2008-06-13

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...

Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-05