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- Firm Uses New Operating System, Adds Cost-Saving Features to Managed Workplace Services
- T-Systems uses the latest technologies to develop network and communications solutions for enterprise businesses and public sector institutions around the world. To remain competitive in the global marketplace, the company became an early adopter of the Windows 7 operating system. After the pilot program is complete, T-Systems expects to benefit...
- Tags: Public Sector, Workplace, T-Systems, Operating System, Cost Savings, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Mid-range European ERP portending the future?
- On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...
- Tags: Revenue, Public Sector, Vendor, SAP AG, Agresso, COA Solutions, COA, Maintenance Revenue, Saas/on-demand, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- The end of going AWOL
- To get people excited, technology must cut across an entire organisation. This Vodafone white paper explores how unified communications can empower public sector organisations to accelerate their existing change programmes, create opportunities to reduce capital investment, and improve people's lives.
- Tags: Public Sector, Vodafone Group Plc.
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector
- Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where tax receipts are naturally suppressed, provides very serious funding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation at the regional and national level is imposing additional duties and responsibilities on the public services...
- Tags: Public Sector, Pitney Bowes Inc., Public Service, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2009-08-20
- Windows Mobile-Based Partner Solutions Help Improve Public Sector Agency's Business Performance
- For years, the LCRA depended on paper-based work orders to manage its many responsibilities. The manual data entry processes caused bottlenecks and inaccuracies, and the LCRA needed a mobile solution that offered versatility and configurability to meet the company's data management requirements. LCRA leaders reviewed a number of mobile vendors'...
- Tags: Public Sector, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Performance, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Data Management, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-07-14
- Fraud in a Downturn: A Review of How Fraud and Other Integrity Risks Will Affect Business in 2009
- The impact of the credit crunch and the global economic slowdown is challenging even most robust institutions. Those charged with the governance of some of largest private sector companies have had to focus on short term measures to address the risk of corporate failure. Leaders of public sector institutions must...
- Tags: Public Sector, Risk, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-05-12
- Sercomtel S.A. Telecomunicacoes Realizes 25% Productivity Gains and Greater Financial Transparency
- Sercomtel S.A. Telecomunicacoes wanted to Comply with fiscal and tax regulations, as well as requirements imposed by Brazil's national telecommunications agency, Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes and make company systems compatible with the digital accounting public system, Sistema Publico de Escrituracao Digital, and with activity-based costing. The challenge was to increase...
- Tags: Public Sector, Oracle Corp., Financial, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Sun Solutions for the Public Sector: Maximizing the Value of Stimulus Fund Investments
- With the establishment of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA, vital funds are being allocated to state and local governments - particularly in the areas of municipal, educational, and healthcare projects. While economic pressures continue to affect organizations nationwide, it is believed that these monies might reduce...
- Tags: Public Sector, Fund, Sun Microsystems Inc., Investment, Vertical Industries, Government, Benefits, Healthcare, Federal Government, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Saudi Post Establishes Greater Budgetary Control and Cuts Reporting Times From One Week to One Day
- Saudi Post wanted to integrate data stores from geographically-dispersed branches and ensure on time budget preparation. The challenge was to establish greater budgetary control to meet requirements as a public sector organization, gaining the ability to track and report every transaction and accelerate completion of purchase orders to increase efficiency...
- Tags: Public Sector, Oracle Corp., Logistics, Supply Chain, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustible Improves Efficiency and Service While Reducing Risks
- The Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustible wanted to integrate information systems to automate data collection and improve efficiency within the public sector organization and automate procedures for authorized agents ' oversight and inspection reporting to improve service quality and reduce time to approve electrical project plans. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Public Sector, Oracle Corp., Accident, Policies And Procedures, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Linear Inferencing: High-Performance Processing
- Oracle Policy Automation provides complex eligibility and policy determinations using a patented linear inferencing algorithm for forward-chain inferencing. This algorithm is particularly suited to public sector organizations needing to make decisions based on legislation modeled in natural language and financial services companies that must model complex eligibility rules. In their...
- Tags: Algorithm, Public Sector, Oracle Corp., High-performance, Oracle Policy Automation, Engineering, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Microsoft SharePoint Solutions for the Public Sector
- The presenter explores features and functionality of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with a SharePoint expert. The attendee will learn more about SharePoint's search functionality, document management, business intelligence features, and more.
- Tags: Public Sector, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., CDW Corp., Content Management, Groupware, Collaboration, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Software, Marketing, Data Management, Management
- Webcasts 2009-02-01
- InstantAtlas Product Webcast
- The presenter of this webcast shows why more than 20 UK public sector organisations now use InstantAtlas Server as their platform to present, share and disseminate geographically linked performance indicators and local area statistics. Understand the range of solutions you can support with the product from relatively light-weight reporting to...
- Tags: Public Sector, Webcast, Performance, GeoWise, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- 2009
- Here are a few more projections of what could happen in greentech world during 2009. First some predictions about what could be up in the world of infrastructure. (I know that's a useful word but I sure hate it...how about big stuff, instead?) These are...
- Tags: China, Public Sector, Financial, Infrastructure, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- VeriSign Identity Protection for the Public Sector
- To build and promote the public's confidence in online government services, agencies need to deliver a higher level of online security - one that enables government organizations to maximize protection of citizens and businesses against fraud attempts and identity theft in cyber space. Now there is an affordable, effective answer...
- Tags: Public Sector, VeriSign Inc., E-government, Security, Government
- White papers 2008-12-02
- Webcast: Using EPM to Measure and Manage in the Public Sector
- Organization can manage projects & programs better and make better decisions. With the right processes, the right tools customized to the requirements, metrics that are meaningful to the organization can be available to and easily interpreted by key players and stakeholders. The attendee will learn through an actual case study...
- Tags: Public Sector, Metrics, Webcast, Productivity
- Webcasts 2008-08-13
- Securing Internal Networks: The Evolving Role and Requirements for Intrusion Prevention Systems for Public Sector Organizations
- This paper explores the prevailing conditions driving the need for enhanced, internal network security as a prerequisite for establishing a logical set of technical countermeasures that will help meet this increasingly common objective. The focus then shifts to one of the most promising of these countermeasures, the network Intrusion Prevention...
- Tags: Intrusion Prevention System, Public Sector, Internal Network, Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Details, Intrusion Prevention, Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-08-01
- DeviceLock: Standing Out in a Competitive Marketplace
- As protecting information assets become a major priority for private and public sector organisations the endpoint security market is getting increasingly crowded. The company needed to distinguish the DeviceLock software from the crowd, and work with their European partners to make sure messages were consistent in all countries. But they...
- Tags: Public Sector, U.K., Aspectus, Security
- Case studies 2008-07-23
- Microsoft Office System Webcast: Using Project 2007 Effectively in the Public Sector (Level 100)
- Managing the project workload with limited resources is no easy task, but doing that while managing stakeholders from different departments and managing the expectations of special interest groups requires the right planning tool. Microsoft Office Project 2007 can help. Using powerful, easy-to-use tools, one can set up the project plans...
- Tags: Public Sector, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-12
- The City of Edinburgh Council Saves US$8 Million in 2007-08 Through Intelligent, Automated Procurement
- City of Edinburgh Council wanted to optimize value of US$1.4 billion annual spend through smarter, transparent purchasing, electronic procure-to-pay processes, and efficient, collaborative supplier management and streamline compliance with government and EU public sector procurement legislation while sharing best practices with other local authorities in line with pathfinder council status....
- Tags: Public Sector, Sourcing, Oracle Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-06-01
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