Harvard Business Review Editor Thomas A. Stewart has a thought-provoking list for you to contemplate, and its title doesn't lack for confidence: 9 Sure Bets For The Future. To give you a flavor, here are three of the nine trends Stewart thinks are sure enough for you...
SPI Labs has discovered a technique to scan a network, fingerprint all the Web-enabled devices found, and send attacks or commands to those devices. This technique can scan networks protected behind firewalls such as corporate networks. All the code to do this is written in JavaScript and uses parts of...
This introductory paper on PHP will explain what PHP is, how it works, and how a person can get started using it. PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. PHP script is embedded within a HTML document and the...
Meta data is perhaps the most neglected component of Information systems. Its obscure identity, relative to data itself, is fast being replaced by a rapidly rising role in messaging, publishing, the web, modeling, and data warehousing. XML is becoming the standard for representing and enabling Meta data language for data...
The Chairman, former Chairman, and Ranking Minority Member, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs asked GAO to review the Veterans Benefits Administration's VBA efforts to realign its compensation and pension claims processing field structure to improve performance. This report identifies the actions VBA has taken to realign its compensation and pension...
With the rapid growth of medical information and the pervasiveness of the Internet, online search and retrieval systems have become indispensable tools in medicine. The progress of Web technologies can provide expert searching capabilities to non-expert information seekers. The objective of the project is to create an alternative search interface...
The Chairman, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, asked GAO to submit a statement for the record highlighting findings from an examination of the Veterans Benefit Administration's VBA fiscal year 2005 budget justification. This paper assesses VBA's determination and justification of claims processing staffing...
This white paper addresses how combining accountability and design into the same process not only increases the productivity of the individual engineer, but also improves the reliability of reporting, and the efficiency of the overall organization. This approach enables the efficient decentralization of product development and manufacturing, faster time-to-market, more...
This paper discusses about the concerns over the potential for conflicts between the U.S. and Canadian laws which should not be considered as unmanageable. It states that it is open for any contractor and its client to address the risks through obtaining legal opinions and documenting the concerns that have...
Data synopses are concise representations of data sets that enable effective processing of approximate queries to the data sets. Approximate query processing provides important alternatives when exact query answers are not required. Synopses are a system designed to provide a run-time environment for remote execution of various synopses for relational...
In these times, XML has become the universal interchange format. Many investigations have been made on storing, querying and integrating XML with existing applications. Many XML-based commercial DBMSs have appeared lately. This paper reports on the analysis of an XML mediator federating several existing XML DBMSs. The authors measure their...
This paper describes about XML which provides the healthcare information systems with a cost-effective method for data consolidation. It provides a cross-platform way to represent data as a simple stream of text, allowing easy transmission and retrieval The .NET platform provides the bridge to link healthcare providers, payors and patients...
This white paper discusses the benefits & effects of single, integrated cross-product web-distribution platforms that go beyond mere improvements to trade processing functionality. Most significantly, cross-product solutions will finally empower managers to derive more accurate and meaningful information about their customer base. Cross-asset class solutions will enable the profitability of...
From the executive summary: ‘The pros and cons of outsourcing have been debated for years and managers are frequently faced with build versus buy decisions. Sometimes these decisions are simple, as in the case of cleaning services or payroll, but in most instances outsourcing determinations are based on an organization's...
Within the context of modern media content production and distribution, the fundamental requirements for automated Metadata systems have become well understood and the benefits that the integrated flow of Metadata can bring to the production and distribution chains are now obvious. This paper focuses on design approaches that can leverage...
Article states that with M&A activity hotting up in the IT sector, customers may want to redo their contracts with tech outsourcers. It describes the bump in M&A activity, which has serious repercussions for companies that outsource their applications hosting. To avoid unpleasant surprises, tech consultants advise finance chiefs to...
Sterling Fluid Systems needed to be more responsive to the demands of its customers, distributors and employees by providing a faster, more convenient way to interact with - and within - the company. The solution enables realtime transactions capability and information access between Sterling Fluid Systems and its customers and...
XML makes it possible for a desktop computer's web browser to also be used as a bank loan officer's user interface to the bank's mainframe systems. XML makes it possible for two legacy computing systems to speak with each other without expensive software changes to their code. XML makes it...
The REGNET Project aims to develop a formal information infrastructure for regulatory information management and compliance assistance. This paper discusses three components of current research and development efforts. The first is a document repository containing federal and state regulations and supplemental documents. This repository includes a suite of concept hierarchies...
A visual interface has been developed to provide a means for users to visualize the steel structure represented by a CIMsteel Integration Standards Release 2 (CIS/2) file. A CIS/2 file provides for the electronic exchange of data directly between various steel CAD software applications. Using a web-accessible translator, objects in...
