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- New Solution Gives Swedish Municipality a Way to Increase Security, Save Money
- Horby Kommun is a municipality in southern Sweden. The municipality's IT services department manages an infrastructure based on the Windows Server 2003 operating system. This IT environment includes a portal system for local residents and an IT network used by the municipal employees as well as the region's schools. Horby...
- Tags: Security, Network, Information Technology, Municipality, Horby Kommun, Portals, Strategy, Networking, Internet, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- IRS tapes missing in Kansas City
- Please Lose My InfoTo those who stole the "missing tapes," please find the one with names that begin with C and lose it - again. My eternal thanks.Giving tapes to a local municipality ranks right up thereNo offense, but local municipalities more often then not leave things laying in...
- Tags: drdoolittle2800@..., Internal Revenue Service, local municipality, municipality, security, tape
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Supporting Municipal Business Models With Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solutions
- Outdoor wireless networks are playing a vital role in helping municipalities deliver critical services to citizens. In addition to evaluating access technologies, governments must consider the best business model for their specific funding and support needs. This paper defines emerging business models, and identifies the managed services model as the...
- Tags: Municipality, Cisco Systems Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Public Services Simplified With Restructured Processes and Single Point of Contact
- The Vale do Sousa Digital project was launched by six municipalities to simplify and improve the quality of their public services and information by reengineering back-office processes and developing regional portals for citizens, businesses, and tourists. Under a tight deadline, the municipalities developed the portals using the Microsoft .NET Framework....
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Organizational Structure, Internet, Human Resources
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Project Automates Services in 14 Municipalities, Boosts Regional Knowledge Economy
- The Association of Municipalities of the District of Evora AMDE, in partnership with the Regional Development Agency of Alentejo, University of Evora, and Evora City Council, is leading the Evora Digital District Project to help the growth of the regional knowledge economy and to bring its 14 associate municipalities and...
- Tags: Knowledge, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Central Environment and Web Portals Improve Service Delivery to Tourists and Citizens
- Managed by Globalgarve, a public-private regional economic development agency, the Algarve Digital project was launched to provide online tourism and public administration services in the Algarve. A central technology environment based on Microsoft Windows Server System integrated server software supports regional portals for tourism and e-government services as well as...
- Tags: Environment, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Web Portal, Algarve Digital, E-government, Portals, Web Technology, Servers, Government, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Danish Municipality Cuts Word Document Templates With Customised Template Management System
- The Municipality of Aarhus administers local government services to citizens in Denmark's second biggest city. The council wanted to take advantage of a migration to Microsoft Office 2003 Editions and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, to improve the management of templates for its officers and caseworkers. Advised by Ementor, the municipality...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2003, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Hardware
- Case studies 2005-11-28
- Nortel Network Case Study: Arendal Municipality
- The Arendal town hall is the administrative centre of the municipality of Arendal, one of 15 municipalities in the county of Aust Augder, which is one of 19 counties in Norway. The company wanted: to enable employees to hot-desk freely in the new town hall; to provide them with a...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Municipality, WLAN, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2005-10-20
- Municipal Infrastructure Construction Discussion Paper
- Municipalities have raised recent concern about escalating prices and the general availability of resources to undertake ramping up infrastructure rehabilitation and municipal works programs. Municipalities fear that the buying power of the funding they have long awaited will be significantly diminished or lost due to rising prices. Municipalities wish to...
- Tags: Municipality, Engineering, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-10-03
- From a Travesty of Justice to Poetic Justice
- From a Travesty of Justice to Poetic JusticeIn my opinion, one of the biggest travesties of our judicial system, at least among the more recent travesties, is the court support of various jurisdictions concerning their implementation of the states' power of eminent domain. The power of eminent domain is the...
- Tags: domain, eminent domain, legal, maxwell edison, municipality, off-topic, political, revenue, tax, tax revenue
- Discussion threads 2005-06-30
- Portuguese Municipality Cuts Citizen Waiting Times by Half With New E-Government System
- Camara Municipal de Abrantes in Portugal wanted to provide integrated and cost-effective services to its citizens online and through its caller centre and improve the quality of life for residents. Prior to 2004, customer-facing services in the municipality - such as fire and rescue, leisure, sport, and libraries - were...
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., E-government, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Directory Services, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Enterprise Software, Government, Marketing, Software
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- Data Management Automation System Improves Swedish School Administration
- The Swedish municipality of Sundbyberg was having difficulty administrating student data in schools. Because information had to be entered manually into various applications, employees were losing time, and the risk of errors was high. With a solution based on Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, the municipality has automated and centralised...
- Tags: Administration, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Data Management Automation System, Data Management, Workforce Management, Storage, Databases, Human Resources, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Spanish Municipality Streamlines Services With New Document Management System
- The Sant Andreu de la Barca Municipality in Catalonia, Spain, wanted to modernise its administration and document management systems to provide better citizen-centric services to a growing population. After assessing several specialised solutions, the municipality decided to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, with consultancy advice from Microsoft Gold...
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- Municipality Adopts Web-Based Infrastructure to Provide Round-the-Clock Public Services
- The Municipality of Karlskrona in Sweden wanted to create a new Web-based system that would give its citizens access to public services at all times. Its IT infrastructure, based on Novell, was too fragmented and complicated to upgrade, so, with the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners HP and Cornerstone,...
- Tags: Web, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
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- Meeting Danish Municipality's Demands for Full Uptime With Symantec Data Protection Solution
- Hvidovre Municipality is one of the largest municipalities in Denmark. To ensure that citizens receive the best possible service and that the authority delivers on its efficiency remit, Hvidovre needed to re-evaluate its storage infrastructure: bottlenecks and other issues that were in danger of compromising high availability. By implementing an...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Municipality, Uptime, Hvidovre Municipality, Storage, Security, Hardware
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- Municipality Streamlines Public Parking for Citizens With Automated Parking Solution
- The public utility company "PU Parking" in Subotica, Serbia, is in charge of organizing, collecting fees, and managing parking services in Subotica. In order to adequately solve the problem of crowded vehicles in the central city zone and to increase profit, PU Parking selected a solution from technology provider Pakom...
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., SMS4Parking Solution, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Networking
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- City of Burlington Manages Growth With Activity-Based Costing
- Located west of Toronto, the city of Burlington is a growing municipality with a long-term vision to manage growth and development in a way that maintains a strong network of residential neighborhoods, a diverse economic base, a sound infrastructure, a fiscally stable metropolis and an environmentally sensitive community. Land development...
- Tags: Burlington, Municipality, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Pricing, Finance, Marketing
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- Nortel Networks Case Study: Arendal
- The Arendal town hall is the administrative centre of the municipality of Arendal, one of 15 municipalities in the county of Aust Augder, which is one of 19 counties in Norway. Arendal's new town hall required a sophisticated, yet cost-effective, converged voice and data solution, including high-quality wireless IP Telephony....
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Municipality, Arendal, VOIP, Business Structures, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Finance
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- Bergen County Utilities Authority Improves Public Relations by Implementing New Speech System
- The Bergen County Utilities Authority BCUA is a public utility providing sewage disposal for 46 municipalities, as well as solid waste services for 70 municipalities, in Bergen County, New Jersey. The BCUA's new system needed to meet several criteria such as incorporate over 150 names and departments and monitor and...
- Tags: Municipality, Avaya Inc., Bergen County Utilities Authority, Speech Recognition, Public Relations, Monitors & Displays, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components
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- Novell Case Study: Municipality of Epe
- The Municipality of Epe is located in the Province of Gelderland, in the central-eastern part of the Netherlands. Setting its sights on phasing out the traditional "One window, one product" approach to serving its citizens, the municipality looked to enable greater flexibility and responsiveness in the delivery of information. The...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Municipality, Construction
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