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The PKI Payoff

Get your customers past the difficult early stages, and then technology will deliver benefits.

  • By Edmund X. DeJesus

They're back

Portals return as agencies standardize and seek a return on investment.

  • By David Essex

No stopping wireless

Integrators to plan for secure access as demand grows.

  • By Drew Robb

More than road maps

Standards are key for bigger geographic information systems.

  • By S. Michael Gallagher

IPv6: The future is now

The clock is ticking on Uncle Sam's next-generation Internet implementation.

  • By Dan Tynan

Integrators expand BPM with tools, services

A business process is not a single application, but rather a flow of tasks and, often, documents that typically involve many people, departments and enterprises. Even if automated, the process probably taps into many databases and programs. But that kind of ubiquity can make business process prone to the errors and inefficiencies that come from poor coordination, communication and data integration.

  • By David Essex
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On all the time

Disaster recovery was a low priority for many government agencies until the flood of terrorist attacks, hurricanes and other disasters of recent years. Now disaster recovery, ensuring that IT works uninterruptedly, is a key component of the continuity of operations plans that government expects industry to help it carry out.

  • By David Essex

Data warehouses need integrator's touch

To further a spirit of cooperation, agencies also are beginning to share information from disparate databases by sending some of that data to common data warehouses, where it can be merged, queried and analyzed.

  • By Drew Robb

VPNs wanted, but which kind?

Many government agencies, if they have not already done so, soon will face the issue of what technology they should use to connect remote workers, and they'll be looking to integrators to help make a decision.

  • By David Essex

Online extra | VPNs, literally speaking

Looking to help an agency implement a virtual private network? Experts recommend the following considerations when answering a request for proposals.

  • By David Essex

Calm amidst the storm

Bill Geimer has a big, big security problem ? a planet-sized security problem ? at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

  • By David Essex

So much promise, so much challenge

If ever a technology seemed tailored to the needs of government, it is service-oriented architecture. SOAs link disparate systems, but still make federal agencies think.

  • By S. Michael Gallagher

RFP Toolkit: Stand out in the crowd

Identity management systems can help agencies meet security mandates

  • By Dan Tynan
Featured eBooks

Open your eyes to anti-spam options

In a few years, unsolicited bulk e-mail has blossomed from a mere nuisance into an epidemic that threatens all enterprise messaging.

  • By J.B. Miles

Make IT assets support your mission

Now that government agencies are getting a handle on aligning IT portfolios with business goals, here comes the hard part: execution.

  • By David Essex

EA helps mind the money

Intelligence is an imperfect science. Just ask CIA or the 9/11 Commission. Or EDS Corp., the contractor tasked with wrangling thousands of legacy systems into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. When EDS started the job, the Navy thought it had about 5,000 applications to integrate. EDS found more than 100,000.

  • By Drew Robb

Content management grows up

Government Web sites have changed dramatically over the past five years.

  • By Michael Gallagher

Savings is latest feature of multifunction printers

Consolidation is an architecture strategy popular with government IT shops.

  • By J.B. Miles

Bush mandates direct financial apps spending

Recent developments in financial software for government are closely tracking directives that emphasize lines of business, strategic plans and project portfolios.

  • By David Essex

JUST LIKE BEING THERE

At some point, you're not just working, you're working with others. Ideally, your colleagues are wherever you are, whenever you need them, with access to all the materials and resources needed for the task at hand.

  • By Edmund X. DeJesus

Bandwidth wranglers

Ethernet has surpassed all other networking technologies in speed, scalability and ease of implementation.

  • By J.B. Miles