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Too much information

If you don't pay close attention to how you put your business intelligence system together, you could find the whole thing more trouble than it's worth

Digital Government

Building for the future

In some ways, the future of business intelligence applications runs parallel to the expectations of other parts of the information technology field

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Taming the directory hydra

Solutions for managing directories take shape, but are still no silver bullet

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Metadirectories a matter of semantics

The ambiguity about what a metadirectory is has opened market space for products that don't conform to the classic definition, but perform similarly

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Technology isn't the only hard part

Developing a metadirectory is more than a technical challenge

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Texas awards telehealth pilots

Programs will study whether it's feasible to use telemedicine to deliver health services to low-income women

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Workforce Investment Act: Hard labor

States discover shortfalls of technology as they struggle to comply with a federal workforce mandate

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Oregon's 21st Century Government training program

Oregon training session outline

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One stop, but myriad problems

The question of how to integrate agency databases is entangled with how to integrate agency cultures

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IT 101 in Oregon

Training sessions prepare state executives to deal with technology

Digital Government

Web-enabling: Back to the future

A few years ago, the mainframe was supposedly on its way out, to be replaced by the smaller and less expensive client/ server platform

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Mainframes make Web connection

Interior Department uses Java to give old technology a new lease on life

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People matter, too

Don't forget the mainframe users when considering plans for Web-enabling legacy systems, advised Michael Colburn, who directed such an upgrade while chief of the National Business Center's applications planning and technology group.

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Weighing the options

Iowa pioneers method to judge the value of IT programs

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How IT projects add up in Iowa

Iowa attempts to take some of the mystery out of the return-on-investment evaluation process by using a scoring system to assess a project's standing in the overall information technology enterprise.

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State and local eyes focused on Iowa's test

Iowa's return-on-investment process could be the template for IT evaluation programs that other states might put together, according to Bob Glasser, president of the State Information Technology Consortium (SITC).

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Digging for data treasure

The Massachusetts school system knew it had valuable information locked up in the volumes of student data it collected, but there was no obvious way to get at it.

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Web mining: The next big thing

One aspect of business intelligence that's not a real factor now ? but certainly will be ? is Web mining.

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Direct to the top

Dells sales model is a perfect fit for procurement reform

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Reinventing itself

Emphasizing solutions, not PCs, keeps GTSI among the top 10 GSA schedule holders