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- The Business of Government: The Balanced Scorecard in the Public Sector
- The SAO is a legislative agency providing audit and assurance services to the Texas Legislature. There are interesting challenges as SOA works to provide efficient and effective services to legislators, agency management, and ultimately to the citizens. The Scorecard has helped SOA to organize their challenges and to do business...
- Tags: Agency, Government, SOA, Performancesoft, SAO, Scorecard, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Balanced Scorecard, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Marketing Research
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- Sao Paulo Gazes Into a Fiscally Sound Future With SAS
- Refining the tax system in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been an ongoing challenge for the state's Department of Finance. For the past years, officials in Sao Paulo have used SAS to run the payroll system for state employees. Recently, officials decided to study past revenue patterns and make projections about...
- Tags: Taxes, SAS Institute, tax, data analysis, payroll, tool, software
- Case studies 2006-10-20
- How Cisco Uses IP Telephony and Wireless Technologies in Brazilian Office
- The Cisco Sao Paulo office has grown very rapidly, from less than 20 people in 1997 to 132 people today. Because of this expansion, the Cisco Workplace Resources group struggled with options for housing its employees. New workplace solutions needed to be implemented to improve flexibility and mobility, supported by...
- Tags: Workplace, Telephony, Wireless Technology, IP Telephony, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless
- Case studies 2007-12-12
- State Agency Personnel Information Reports: A SAS/IntrNet Project
- Sometimes auditors need information pertaining to the employment status or authorized salary of certain individuals, as of a particular date. The source data for responding to such queries are contained in three different databases that are maintained by the State Comptroller's Office. Instead of executing a separate query against the...
- Tags: Agency, SAS Institute, Intranet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Companhia Hidreletrica do Sao Francisco Centralizes Information and Solves Problems in Real Time
- Companhia HidrelEtrica do Sao Francisco CHESF, a subsidiary of Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras S/A, was created in 1945 with the mission of providing, producing, and selling electric power to the northeastern region of Brazil. The company wanted to centralize administration around a common platform in all branch offices and integrate all...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Data Management, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software
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- A galaxy far, far, away comes to Brazil
- The Star Wars Exhibit Museum opened on March 5 on the "Porão das Artes" at the Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, where it will be until June 29.Children can take a course at the "Jedi Academy" and face Darth Vader himself at the end and adults can take a guided/scheduled...
- Tags: Star Wars, Geekend, off topic, Photos
- Image galleries 2008-03-18
- Improving Efficiency Through Modernization and Innovation
- Established in 1892, Brazil's Secretary of Finance - or Secretaria da Fazenda SEFAZ - is one of many public sector organizations in the state of Sao Paulo that has recently undertaken a modernization effort to improve efficiency. The challenge was of reducing costs and improving service by integrating smart card...
- Tags: Innovation, Smart Card, Unisys Corp., Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
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- ISMSRAT (zip)
- Main Objective of the applications is to assist in the implementation of ISMS (ISO/IEC27001) by offering a seamless set of procedures, policies, controls and assessment techniques with ease of use. Key benefits Classified Inventory of assets concerning to information security. Risk assessment. Risk treatment plan based on automated selection of...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Asset Management, Strategy, Security, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2006-05-22
- Applying Order to the Law: USC/Canterbury & Hewlett-Packard Automate the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office
- The State's Attorney's Office SAO of Baltimore City had no PCs and access to just one mainframe system via leased lines and dumb terminal s .To better oversee the entirety of the network they chose to use HP OpenView, a suite of enterprise management tools that discovers and maps the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Office, State, Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
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- MCP Success Story: Leticia Banffy
- As Leticia Banffy became more focused on technology, she also became aware of wanting more out of her future career. She thought pursuing a Microsoft certification would help and started working toward the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator MCSA certification. After earning that credential, Banffy earned both the Microsoft Certified Systems...
- Tags: Certification, Microsoft Corp., Quality, Business Operations
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- SERASA Invests in StorageTek Virtual Disk Storage
- SERASA, with headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the business that provides all of the creditor and financial markets with commercial information and decision-making support for credit contracts. SERASA maintains a presence in all Brazilian capitals and in the major cities of the world, with a total of 140 locations....
- Tags: Disk, Environment, StorageTek, Disk Storage, SERASA, Storage, Hardware
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- Ameren Uses Novell Security and Identity Solutions to Improve Security and Increase IT Efficiency
- AFRESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been dramatically increasing the number and scope of services it offers its members over the past few years. This increase has led to a need for the association to reformulate and update its processes to ensure it is able to continue providing the best...
- Tags: Security, Novell Inc., Information Technology, Ameren Corp., Association, Novell NetWare, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
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- SENAC Lowers TCO Through Messaging Server Consolidation
- The National Commercial Education Service SENAC promotes professional education in Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, SENAC has long been at the forefront of technological innovation in the educational field. Lately, SENAC focused on upgrading its messaging and collaboration systems in order to take advantage of new messaging features and reduce...
- Tags: Messaging, TCO, SENAC, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Hospital Moves Towards Patient-Centric Healthcare With Development Tools
- Sao Sebastiao Hospital in Santa Maria de Feira, Portugal, wanted to implement a unified technology environment to serve the needs of patients rather than depend on isolated systems for each healthcare professional and department within the hospital. First deployed in the emergency department, Medtrix EPR, an electronic patient record system,...
- Tags: Application, Patient, Hospital, Development Tool, Microsoft Corp., Tool
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- Forward-Thinking Hospital Boosts Productivity and Potential Through Fixed and Wireless Technology
- Hospital de Sao Sebastiao wanted to enable a large hospital to improve patient care through future-ready fixed and wireless LAN technologies. A highly available network core based upon an actively resilient configuration of the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. High-speed connectivity - vital for accessing and exchanging medical data extends...
- Tags: Hospital, Nortel Networks Corp., Wireless Technology, Nortel WLAN 2300 Series, Healthcare, Wireless
- Case studies 2007-07-03
- METALIS Cuts Losses, Increases Profits With Price, Stock and Credit Controls
- As mid-size company, METALIS remains a long way from matching the revenue of leading international aluminum companies. But with its recent introduction of globally integrated business processes, this Sao Paulo-based metal sheets distributor is leading the way in terms of operating efficiency. Leveraging Oracle E-Business Suite applications, METALIS is building...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Stock, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Software
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Brazilian Stock Exchange Ushers in New Era With SQL Server-Based Infrastructure
- Starting in the late 1970s, the Brazilian São Paulo Stock Exchange BOVESPA ran its mission-critical applications on ever-larger, ever-more costly mainframe platforms. By the early 2000s, with daily trading volume growing by 50 percent each year, BOVESPA IT executives decided to evaluate their technology investments and infrastructure. Seeking a more...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Stock Exchange, BOVESPA IT, Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Parallel Processing Applied to the Design of Concrete Encased Grounding Electrodes
- This work presents the authors' investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind of application justify the use of high performance computation. This...
- Tags: Electrode, Sao Paulo, Parallel Processing
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Brazil's Leading Engine for Economic Development Improves Productivity With a Secure, Converged 3Com Network
- SEBRAE Brazilian Service of Support to Micro and Small Companies helped make Brazil's economy the eighth largest in the world. As a forward-looking enterprise, SEBRAE sought to improve its own technologies. Their WAN posed its greatest challenge for employees at SEBRAE's Brasilia headquarters and its other main facility in Sao...
- Tags: Network, 3Com Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, WANs, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- Braganca Paulista City Council Reaches Out to Citizens Through New Oracle-Based Web Site
- Founded 208 years ago, one of the oldest city councils in Sao Paulo, Braganca Paulista City Council serves 120,000 residents. The council wanted to provide a graphic interface to support a new Web site and deploy a solution that helps create access rules and forms in addition to generating reports...
- Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Council, Web Site, City Council, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Application Servers, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Databases, Internet, Software, Marketing, Data Management
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