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- Government in the Digital Age: Myths, Realities and Promises - A Candid Assessment and Road Map for Success
- This analysis focuses on four necessary components of any successful program: vision, governance, architecture and stakeholders. All of these factors are intertwined; all have to work together to create a viable e-government program. More importantly, their exact relationships and connections have to be determined and enacted locally, contingent on the...
- Tags: National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, Analysis, E-government, Government
- White papers 2004-11-04
- Innovation in E-Procurement: The Italian Experience
- This project looks at the e-procurement platform managed by CONSIP, a firm owned by the Italian Government and its impact on: public spending at the central administration level, spending procedures and, the organization of relations between public administration and businesses supplying good and services. The Italian experience is striking in...
- Tags: Innovation, E-procurement, Procurement, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Effectiveness Through E-Payments: Current Learning and Suggested Best Practices
- This paper focuses on e-payments which are the heartbeat of many e-government applications today. In order to transact business electronically with citizens, employees, other governments, and businesses, governments must develop secure ways to transfer value. Because citizens are skeptical about the security of electronic transactions, payment applications must convey competence...
- Tags: Payment, Electronic Payment, Best Practice, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, E-government, Government
- White papers 2004-10-19
- Identity Management: Are We All on the Same Page?
- Identity Management can include securely managing identities from identity theft, managing the dormant and orphaned accounts that may still be open/available for misuse in an organization, improving organizational efficiency by introducing administrative simplification, meeting regulatory and auditing requirements, and managing routine growth and constraints that may occur in the government...
- Tags: Auditing, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security
- White papers 2004-10-19
- Implementing Alternative Sourcing Strategies: Four Case Studies
- Over the next several years, the federal government will continue to face growing pressure to provide more and improved services while containing or reducing costs. In this report, the authors present four case studies that highlight how different organizations have implemented outsourcing, competitive sourcing, and public-private partnerships to achieve savings...
- Tags: Sourcing, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, Case Study, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Developments in Performance-Based Procurement for Technology
- This paper introduces the concept of performance-based contracting and how it works. In addition, it offers examples of how local governments are beginning to work PBC elements. Finally discussion on how performance-based contracting can affect what happens once a contract is awarded is also addressed. This white paper takes the...
- Tags: Performance, Procurement, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, Purchasing & Procurement, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2004-09-16
- ROI Lessons Learned for E-Commerce or E-Government Projects
- This paper attempts to outline what governments are doing to justify their e-commerce or e-government investments, trends for determining a project's ROI, as well as the rationale behind requiring ROI justification. Information gathered from both successful and not so successful projects is summarized in order to provide the reader with...
- Tags: ROI, National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council, E-business, E-government, Roi/Tco, Web Technology, Government, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2002-12-05
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- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- October Esquire magazine will use electronic ink
- Earlier this month I mentioned how Hearst is embracing the mobile web by offering much of their content on mobile phones. Hearst is now going to bring a bit of mobile technology to print media with their usage of electronic ink in the October issue of Esquire. The electronic ink...
- Tags: Electronic Ink, Mobile, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet
- I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...
- Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle
- On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...
- Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...
- Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio
- News items 2008-07-22
- StudyProf FlashCards (exe)
- StudyProf FlashCards is an electronic flashcard software that allows you to create multimedia flashcards on your computer. Once created, they can be studied using the widely proven Leitner memorization method spaced repetition mehod. You can use StudyProf for any subject creating question and answer-like flashcards with pictures and audio. Included...
- Tags: Felling Software Development, StudyProf FlashCards
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?FYI[url=http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/dell_adds_ubuntu_systems_updates_hardy_heron/]FYI[/url]Just curious Dana, are you running Linux? If so, why and which Distro?If not, why?Thanks for another 'good read'.P.S.[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2660]This article[/url] isn't clear about what O/S you use.RE: Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?The simple answer is a reassuring NO! Put simply,...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, Notebooks, Ubuntu, Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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