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Enterprise Architecture Practice: Case Study

The Office of Single Family Housing SFH in collaboration with the HUD's EA Team developed an information technology blueprint. SFH was deemed a high priority based on high system maintenance costs and poor support for field operations and emerging business requirements. Implementation of the SFH blueprint will reduce the number...

Tags: Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture, U.S. Department Of Housing, Single Family Housing Blueprint, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management

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Following the money

It's time to follow the money, and there may be a lot of it to follow as it flows from China, Saudi Arabia and Japan to Washington and then is recycled into states and cities across America. Last week Departrment of Housing and Urban Development HUD started doling out...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Insulation, Money, HUD Website, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Where's Bin Laden? New theory, Google Earth offer clues

A couple of geography professors at UCLA have done some legwork that just might help the U.S. get closer to capturing Osama Bin Laden. The professors, John A. Agnew and Thomas W. Gillespie, today published a theory on the MIT International Review site PDF that identifies three...

Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Professor, Theory, Google Earth, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Who keeps failing their FISMA compliance?

The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA. From a cyber espionage perspective, the lack of prioritization of departments that must...

Tags: Compliance, FISMA, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Real estate deals online: U.S. Government fights for your rights

The U.S. Government believes you should get the best price on your next real estate transaction and is taking on the National Association of Realtors to help make sure you can use the Internet to get it.United States of America Department of Justice, Antitrust Division v. National Assocation of Realtors...

Tags: NAR

Blog posts 2006-08-22

Will digital libraries hasten the end of the textbook?

Could textbooks be a thing of the past? It’s unlikely that the formidable textbook industry will slip quietly into the night as more scholarly works come online. Increasingly, as portable learning devices are being incorporated into classrooms, one can envision the textbook becoming a bit obsolete. Campus Technology reports...

Tags: textbook

Blog posts 2006-05-03

Red Cross: San Francisco unprepared for big quake

Red Cross: San Francisco unprepared for big quakeDoesn't take a geniusto figure out that there will PROBABLY be a big quake in the area before 2032. That's what, a 26 year window for something to happen? California gets hit by mini-quakes ALL of the time. The magnitute...

Tags: caliber, quake, shotgun, Medium caliber, Red Cross

Discussion threads 2006-04-14

Protecting copyright in an academic environment

Since its inception, copyright law has always recognized a certain amount of flexibility not only for purposes of teaching but also for purposes of comment and criticism and for news reporting. Since the 1970's, a "fair use" doctrine has been codified into U.S. Copyright law to include not only reproduction...

Tags: reproduction

Blog posts 2006-02-27

U.S. agency urges revocation of EDS contract

U.S. agency urges revocation of EDS contractwhat's next" The General Accounting Office has upheld a protest from Lockheed Martin Information Systems, which had challenged the Department of Housing and Urban Development's decision to award an information technology services contract to EDS. Lockheed Martin offered a lower bid than EDS for...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Strategy, Electronic Data Systems Corp., U.S. Agency

Discussion threads 2004-01-07

Nonprofit Organization Streamlines Accounting Tasks With Integrated Software

Helping low to moderate income residents of rural Georgia purchase permanent housing is the goal of Agape CDC of Winder, Ga. A nonprofit organization that partners with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Agape CDC provides housing education and acquisition services as part of the federal government's "Home...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

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New Data Warehouse to Buoy 7 Terabytes for State of Alaska

The Alaska Department of Revenue, Permanent Fund Dividend PFD Division, managed a multitude of disconnected and continually failing technologies, housing several terabytes of data, with only a six-person IT staff. It needed a new data infrastructure to support its operations, which includes the distribution of between U.S.$500 million and a...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Terabyte, Microsoft Corp., Image, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

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