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The Business of Government: The Balanced Scorecard in the Public Sector

The SAO is a legislative agency providing audit and assurance services to the Texas Legislature. There are interesting challenges as SOA works to provide efficient and effective services to legislators, agency management, and ultimately to the citizens. The Scorecard has helped SOA to organize their challenges and to do business...

Tags: Agency, Government, SOA, Performancesoft, SAO, Scorecard, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Balanced Scorecard, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Marketing Research

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IBM expands cloud computing footprint

IBM on Wednesday said that it has opened four new cloud computing centers sprinkled around emerging markets. The latest additions give Big Blue 14 cloud computing centers. Specifically, IBM rolled out cloud computing centers in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bangalore, India; Seoul, Korea; and Hanoi, Vietnam. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-23

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)ProximityWhile North America tends to have affluent and poor areas of town, many countries don't work that way. You can walk along a canal of slums in S.E.Asia and hit the entrance to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods. They're not ten meters apart.Inclusão Digitalpost duplicadoInclusão DigitalParabéns pela...

Tags: Vertical industries, city name, slum, Paulo Perantunes, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

A 'Social Silicon Valley'

Brazilian Journalist Gilberto Dilmenstein has transformed Sao Paulo's Villa Madelena neighborhood from one filled with crime to one filled with learning.

Tags: Sao Paulo, News, ina fried, microsoft, pc, south america, brazil, ibm, software, google, internet

Videos 2008-08-27

Unique corporate service relies on good human nature

Last week I was on a call with Frank Hannigan, Managing Director of YouGetItBack.com, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of Ireland since Guinness. YouGetItBack is a lost and found company, the idea created in 2004, probably from a drunken...

Tags: phone, mobile, service, yougetitback, o2 bluebook, advertising & promotion, marketing, zack whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Banking Leader Updates Operating System for Enhanced Security and Productivity

Founded in 1943 and based in Sao Paulo, Banco Bradesco is the largest private bank in Brazil, with nearly 3,200 branches, 27,000 ATMs, and more than 51 million customer accounts. Banco Bradesco executives decided early on to migrate their highly mobile and widely distributed workforce from a largely Windows 98,...

Tags: Security, Operating System, Banking, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-06-01

Branding Solutions Provider Enhances Efficiency, Mobility With New Operating System

Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cstore/Brandsupply is a leading supplier of branded merchandise and branding solutions. To maintain its competitive edge, Cstore/Brandsupply upgraded to the Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. Now employees work more efficiently and with optimized security whether in the office or on the road, and use the...

Tags: Operating System, Mobility, Branding, Marketing

Case studies 2008-06-01

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?Is "asset smart" the new term for "fabless"?Is the term "asset smart" another way of saying, "Fabless"? I mean, "Fabless" does have a negative connotation to it. "Asset Smart" sounds new and fresh and exciting. I like it !!! Perhaps it means...

Tags: Video cards, Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., graphics, chip, Intel Corp., graphics chip, new roadmap, Puma, asset

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?

AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Management, Manufacturing, Processors, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Federal University of Sao Paulo Upgrades and Saves With Extreme Networks Gigabit Ethernet Solution

The Federal University of Sao Paulo UNIFESP was running an obsolete Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI network that was continuously on the brink of crashing. Designed to serve just 200 users and connect only 46 computers, the system could no longer handle the demand generated by its 7,000 users, including...

Tags: Gigabit Ethernet, Extreme Networks, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking

Case studies 2008-04-01

RIP Ultimate Extras

RIP Ultimate ExtrasDon't forget...I know this article will make anti-MS headlines, but you shouldn't escape your responsibility to mention the 50+ features in Ultimate that are not in Home or not in Business when contrasted with each product.Home users, the 'Previous Versions/TimeMachine feature' and CompletePC are enough to justify the...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Games, English Version, RIP Ultimate Extras, DreamScene, language pack, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

How Cisco Uses IP Telephony and Wireless Technologies in Brazilian Office

The Cisco Sao Paulo office has grown very rapidly, from less than 20 people in 1997 to 132 people today. Because of this expansion, the Cisco Workplace Resources group struggled with options for housing its employees. New workplace solutions needed to be implemented to improve flexibility and mobility, supported by...

Tags: Workplace, Telephony, Wireless Technology, IP Telephony, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless

Case studies 2007-12-12

Parallel Processing Applied to the Design of Concrete Encased Grounding Electrodes

This work presents the authors' investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind of application justify the use of high performance computation. This...

Tags: Electrode, Sao Paulo, Parallel Processing

White papers 2007-12-01

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: Consumers, not IT, driving markets

Sun is holding an Emerging Markets Summit on its Menlo Park, CA campus. CEO Jonathan Schwartz led off the event with this statement: "The Internet is the most powerful social utility the world has ever seen." The "social utility" phrase is part of Sun's new view of...

Tags: Phone, Information Technology, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-29

Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150

Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150I sure as heck wouldThough I'd certainly look in the bargain bins for more memory and perhaps a bigger hard drive to plop in it. And I'm sure other less adventurous folk would add on an OEM copy of Vista or XP.Defintely: too...

Tags: Litigation, Notebooks, laptop computer, too-good-to-be-true, fraud, Fedora Project

Discussion threads 2007-07-25

Forward-Thinking Hospital Boosts Productivity and Potential Through Fixed and Wireless Technology

Hospital de Sao Sebastiao wanted to enable a large hospital to improve patient care through future-ready fixed and wireless LAN technologies. A highly available network core based upon an actively resilient configuration of the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. High-speed connectivity - vital for accessing and exchanging medical data extends...

Tags: Hospital, Nortel Networks Corp., Wireless Technology, Nortel WLAN 2300 Series, Healthcare, Wireless

Case studies 2007-07-03

Brazilian Stock Exchange Ushers in New Era With SQL Server-Based Infrastructure

Starting in the late 1970s, the Brazilian São Paulo Stock Exchange BOVESPA ran its mission-critical applications on ever-larger, ever-more costly mainframe platforms. By the early 2000s, with daily trading volume growing by 50 percent each year, BOVESPA IT executives decided to evaluate their technology investments and infrastructure. Seeking a more...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Stock Exchange, BOVESPA IT, Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

Case studies 2007-05-01

METALIS Cuts Losses, Increases Profits With Price, Stock and Credit Controls

As mid-size company, METALIS remains a long way from matching the revenue of leading international aluminum companies. But with its recent introduction of globally integrated business processes, this Sao Paulo-based metal sheets distributor is leading the way in terms of operating efficiency. Leveraging Oracle E-Business Suite applications, METALIS is building...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Stock, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Software

Case studies 2007-04-01

Avaya Case Study: AES Eletropaulo

AES Eletropaulo is the largest utilities and electric power company in Brazil, and the largest revenue-producing electrical energy distributor in Latin America. With an increasing number of calls to AES Eletropaulo's Call Center - distributed across two sites located in downtown Sao Paulo - the company needed a strategic provider...

Tags: AES, Avaya Inc., AES Eletropaulo, Network Security, Networking

Case studies 2007-04-01

Microsoft to use comics in antipiracy campaign

Microsoft to use comics in antipiracy campaignYou will need a goood sense of humor ...if you are running this crap!Choices.You have a piece of software in front of you and you have the choice of paying for it or not paying for it. What makes up your mind either way?...

Tags: antipiracy, Microsoft Corp., piracy, software

Discussion threads 2007-01-21