The PKI Payoff
Get your customers past the difficult early stages, and then technology will deliver benefits.
They're back
Portals return as agencies standardize and seek a return on investment.
No stopping wireless
Integrators to plan for secure access as demand grows.
More than road maps
Standards are key for bigger geographic information systems.
IPv6: The future is now
The clock is ticking on Uncle Sam's next-generation Internet implementation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
RFP Toolkit: Stand out in the crowd
Identity management systems can help agencies meet security mandates
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.
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.
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.
Content management grows up
Government Web sites have changed dramatically over the past five years.
Savings is latest feature of multifunction printers
Consolidation is an architecture strategy popular with government IT shops.
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.
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.
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