The U.S. federal government will increase its spending on customer relationship management systems and services at a compound annual growth rate of 17.5 percent between 2001 and 2006, according to a market research report.
MapInfo Corp. was picked by the New York City Police Department to provide its MapInfo MapXtreme mapping technology for its agencywide, intranet-based crime analysis system.
Wanted: Major integrator to build world's largest payroll personnel system. Requirements: Experience in PeopleSoft solutions and knowledge of Defense Department personnel systems.
When the storage area network first came onto the scene, its proponents promised that managing storage would be faster, simpler, easier and less resource-intensive. But many industry observers say the technology hasn't always lived up to its promise. Virtualization ? the next step toward automated data storage ? has finally arrived, and not surprisingly, its proponents are beginning to make their own lofty promises.
When the storage area network first came onto the scene, its proponents promised that managing storage would be faster, simpler, easier and less resource-intensive.
Local public safety agencies are relying on companies to help them maintain uninterrupted communications. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, these agencies are re-examining their communications architecture and policies, especially with an eye toward responding to future disasters. In the near term, public safety agencies will be looking for a massive influx of emergency communications equipment, such as radios and mobile computing devices, said Ray Lehr of TRW Inc.
The Homeland Security Council wants recommendations from the nation's top technology, intelligence and justice agencies for using advanced technology to prevent terrorists from entering the United States.
In the war on terrorism, American special forces hunt an elusive enemy through terrain characterized more by boulders and caves than well-marked roads or developed infrastructure.
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America has formed a Homeland Security Task Force to assess how advanced technologies may protect the country's roads and highways.
Seagate Technology Inc. has won a grant from National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop a new storage technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording.
Two surveys say 82 percent of Americans are willing to have their fingerprints scanned for increased airport security, and 86 percent favor facial-recognition technology to scan for suspected terrorists.
As federal agencies try to wrap their arms around the myriad data generated by government information systems, many are turning to decision support systems that gather data from across the enterprise to give a holistic view of an organization.
Analytic software provider Informatica Corp., Palo Alto, Calif., is providing the U.S. Geological Survey with a data integration platform to extract and integrate data on water resources analysis.
