The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of its IT investments as well. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization.
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.
You think the left hand and right hand at your organization doesn’t know what each other are doing? Imagine how much government agencies keep their information “close to the vest.” Territories, power and influence are magnified in the nation’s capital and make your organizational silos look like Lego blocks. Now, don’t you feel sorry for the people responsible for managing government IT departments?
Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army's Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.
ARINC Engineering Services, LLC sent three recognized experts in U.S. Department of Defense supply chain management to provide instruction and chair several sessions at the 2011 DMSMS & Standardization Conference this week.
Embracing open source, the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom has chosen a proprietary software system to implement its goal and fulfill the government's election promise to eliminate bias against open source software.
Looking for a new job? Do you spend hours a day on Facebook? Can you browse Twitter like lightning spotting new trends before others? The Pentegon might be looking for you.
In some ways the genre of government in relation to information technology is the same as every other business field. In some ways, they couldn’t be more different. One technology reporter muses on this pseudo-dichotomy and what he has learned from his years entrenched in government information technology.
The recent MarkLogic User Conference was a watershed event for the publishers in attendance, many of whom are just beginning to strategize about the application of semantic technology to their content. After years of hearing “the Semantic Web is coming,” the message this time was that it’s no longer about “what” or “why,” but “how” publishers will leverage this technology. It has been 10 years since Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler, and Ora Lassila announced the creation of the Semantic Web, so many of us were very excited to hear Jim Hendler’s update on current developments. Some key themes of his presentation were already covered in this article from August, 2010 in New Scientist: Google, Twitter, and Facebook Build the Semantic Web. With his trademark slogan, “A little semantics goes a long way,” Hendler added some further context, and described how these companies and others have tapped into social and commercial drivers to promote relatively simple approaches to solving the problem of getting content tagged, and thus increasing the ability for computers to understand the meaning of text across vast amounts of Web content.