The U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides clear principles for creating accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Modern Program Evaluation: A Catalyst for Successful Government Programs

This paper identifies nine steps to planning and executing the migration of content to a portal. By managing content migration via this step-by-step approach, efforts can be more effectively managed and tied into an integrated Portal Roadmap.

The purpose of implementing EIM is to elevate “Corporate Information” to “Corporate Asset.”

The Adaptive Insurance Data Warehouse helps the insurance industry manage changing risks, define and delivery new products, manage agency effectiveness and overall adapt to the demands of the market.

PPC's Methodology for Transitioning Contained Transportation Systems

Given today’s regulatory compliance requirements and SOA tendencies it is highly important that data be defined and disbursed throughout the enterprise consistently. To do this effectively a company must define its key data and govern how it will change.

Effective oversight is critical to good project management, and an integral part of effective oversight is Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) of project efforts.

While on the surface it may seem like a simple task, answering the mail turns out to be a complicated process.

Businesses are moving toward storage consolidation that entails moving file-level data from discrete file servers to scalable, highly available NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices that can hold terabytes of data.

A composite application is a software system that “mashes up” features, functionality, processes, and data from different systems all into one user interface.

At its heart, SOA is about a fundamental restructuring of the software systems that have historically empowered our business successes.

As organizations begin to deploy enterprise-wide solutions for managing key business processes, they are encountering many obstacles and challenges associated with cross-departmental interaction and collaboration.

A Portlet is a way to interface with other applications through a single Portal point of entry. The key is they can be easily customized and personalized to meet the end-user and business requirements in addition to being centrally administered.

Even in those cases where a taxonomy has been implemented, users frequently complain that documents are not “where they should be” in the directory structure.

BPM provides a springboard to business innovation, allowing organizations to dramatically improve such activities as recruiting and hiring, budget formulation and reporting, inventory management, and customer service and support.

This paper categorizes software systems that support different knowledge management activities based on their capabilities and functionality.

This white paper compares the capability of the existing DLT 8000 and LTO-1 tape drives with the latest LTO-2 technology for a large business and describes how LTO-2 tape drives can provide twice the performance and capacity of the current system.

Without portal governance guiding processes, developing policies and procedures, and maintaining authority, portal projects risk absolute failure.

Having recognised the need for master-data management what is the appropriate architecture for a company?

Assuming data are being analyzed from across the data landscape, commonly used analytical methods are not adequate to truly uncover important patterns and trends.

Taxonomies can be powerful tools. But too often, their complexity defeats the users they are supposed to help. The business taxonomy offers a simpler alternative.

In this book, authors from the Software Engineering Institute explain how their organization developed the CMMI model, how they present it, and how to use it.

A Study of Orthographic and Phonetic Algorithms for use in the Automated Method of Minimizing Medication Errors Due to Similar Proprietary and Established Names

It is not difficult to calculate the real costs incurred when critical business systems are down. More serious consequences occur when critical systems such as traffic control, medical life support, or health services systems are not functioning.

Growing needs in both enterprise data storage and data protection have accelerated enterprise storage spending worldwide. The value of enterprise storage lies in the intellectual property contained therein.

Knowing how the portal is being used, and mapping usage trends over time can provide empirical evidence of a successful portal initiative.

The effectiveness of any security system, no matter how technologically advanced, is ultimately determined by the training, reliability and integrity of the individuals who operate it.

Identity Management refers to all of the unrelated components in the owner-ownership equation and the process of electronically brokering the entire setup.

In his book The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge states, "Systems thinking is a conceptual framework to make the full patterns clearer, and to help us see how to change them effectively."

This white paper summarizes a statistical approach for estimating environmental cleaning cost uncertainty.

Part of the planning process to launch any new tool should include assessing the cultural and emotional impact of the tool and developing a plan to communicate, get buy-in, and set expectations with your user base.

In light of the events of September 11, 2001, there is an increased need to evaluate the possibility and impacts of a domestic terrorist attack with the primary objective of creating large-scale environmental damage.