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USDA Enhances Service Productivity With Server Based on 32-Way Intel Xeon Processor MP, New PCs and Notebooks

With shrinking headcounts and growing program mandates, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) faces ongoing pressure to administer its services - and mange its workforce - more effectively. But aging PCs and notebooks were draining productivity and morale, while an overtaxed human resources (HR) system struggled to keep pace with...

Tags: Human Resources, Notebook, PC, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies

Iowa State University & US Department of Agriculture Case Study: Atalasoft DotTwain Facilitates Implementation of Remote Sensing Survey Application

Iowa State University's Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology (CSSM) collaborates with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on an agricultural survey called the National Resources Inventory (NRI). The survey is conducted via interpretation of aerial photographs. To streamline the scanning and consistent naming of thousands of aerial photographs, developers...

Tags: Iowa State University, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing

Case studies

Diet Science (zip)

Diet Science feature includes Calculators included are: Body Mass Index; Daily calorie requirements by Age and Gender; Glycemic Index and Load of 125 common food items; Daily Glycemic Load calculator; Metabolic Syndrome. Nutritional Pyramids included are: Asian, Latin, Mediterranean, USDA, and Vegetarian. Diets included are: Asian, USDA with 7-day sample...

Tags: Food, Menu, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Amit Kshetarpal, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2008-03-06

Lexabean BYO Diet (zip)

Get fit, lose weight with your Pocket PC. Includes USDA Food DB with more than 7000 entries and many reports to track your diet. Based on your goals and vital information - our software will help you reach your body weight and fitness goals. Features include: the ability to set...

Tags: Protein, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2006-07-17

Beginners Guide to Linux Forensics

The core foundation of Linux is primarily text based. Several GUI interfaces can sit on top of this text interface, including Gnome, and KDE. From a forensic perspective, the user will be able to really dig in much deeper by using the old style command line interface. While the different...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2005-06-01

Recipe Archive (exe)

Recipe Archive is a powerful recipe storage system combining many advanced features with ease of use and flexibility in mind. It allows recipes to be stored in recipe books, which can be organized within the library much like real recipe books. It features the ability to handle multiple images per...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Recipe Archive, Storage, Storage Management, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet

Software downloads 2003-05-27

Contract vehicles: Money transportation in government contracting

The Federal Office Systems Exposition (FOSE) took place in Washington, D.C., the first week of April this year. It attracted 400+ exhibitors and most of the federal buyers and spenders. Every exhibitor was trying to get those buyers and spenders to buy its product.Due to the “full and open competition...

Tags: government buyer, RFP, Tom Watkins, transportation, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Technical articles 2003-04-21

Additional Resources

CD3WD Agriculture (EXE)

CD3WD is a collection of high-quality 3rd world development information on agriculture, health, appropriate technology, construction, food processing, crop storage, woodwork, metalwork, electrical trades, education, and computer skills. All material is HTM and PDF, and is therefore platform independent. This section covers agriculture.

Tags: Agriculture, CD3WD, Productivity, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2006-03-15

Internet Delivery of Short Courses for Farmers: A Case Study of a Course on Precision Agriculture

The Internet is changing the way society accesses and processes information. Farmers now have access to a wide range of information about many aspects of their farming systems, but it is often thought by scientists and extension specialists that many lack the skills necessary to use that information to improve...

Tags: Agriculture, Internet, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies

IT Group Deploys Remote Systems Management on BlackBerry for Business-Critical Systems

Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To better serve its clients, IS needed remote network monitoring and management of its Linux, UNIX and Microsoft servers. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server was installed, with the MDS feature and more than 80%...

Tags: Information Technology, RIM BlackBerry, Systems Management, Handhelds, Hardware

Case studies

Japanese bureaucrat gets reprimand for Wikipedia contributions

A Japanese bureaucrat was so obsessed with the popular animated series Gundam that he contributed 260 times to the Japanese language Wikipedia page on the topic. He has been reprimanded for shirking his duties in favor of the Wikipedia contributions about the robots, officials said. Here's an...

Tags: Ministry, Bureaucrat, Wikipedia, Agriculture Ministry, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Asigra Case Study: Morphotek, Inc.

Morphotek, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the generation of proprietary organisms for product discovery and development. The organization utilizes its own patented morphogenics process to expedite DNA mutations that can be developed for drugs, agriculture, and other life sciences or industrial applications. Morphotek scientists and biologist amass significant...

Tags: Morphotek Inc., Business Continuity, Organization, It Services, Biotechnology

Case studies

Infomercati Modernizes and Automates Business Processes to Increase Operational Efficiency

Infomercati is an obligatory association established in Italy under a 1996 law requiring creation and management of an information system for wholesale food and agriculture markets. Infomercati wanted to deploy a single tool for recording the prices of food and agricultural products, such as produce, fish, flowers, and meat and...

Tags: Business Process, Food, Open Standard, Oracle Corp., Italy, Infomercati, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Case studies 2008-03-01

Cisco's Wide Area File Services Technology Solves Centralised File Server Performance Problems for a Dutch Government Department

The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality had recently centralised file servers from multiple branch offices to three locations. As a result, the Ministry's staff started having severe problems accessing their files and applications. Implementing Cisco's Wide Area File Services (WAFS) has ensured that the Driebergen-Zeist office and other...

Tags: Branch Office, File Server, Cisco Systems Inc., File Servers, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-11-01

Syngenta: Collaborate to Innovate

With a commitment to sustainable agriculture, Syngenta touches over 90 percent of the world's population. HP is collaborating with standardization, consolidation and future innovations.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Strategic Planning, Leadership, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2007-01-01

Plantedirektoratet Automates Business Processes, Advancing Communication With Partners

Plantedirektoratet (the Danish Plant Directorate) is a state agency under the Department of the Food, Agriculture and Fisheries. The directorate's task is to help create a development-oriented industry for plants, seeds, fodder, and ecology. The directorate wanted to automate processes involving exchanges of data and services for better cross-agency integration...

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Partnership, Directorate, Plantedirektoratet, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Structures, Operational Planning, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Manufacturing

Case studies

State Agency Improves Decision-Making; Boosts Efficiency With Existing Infrastructure

The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) works to uphold the quality and safety of the state's animal feed-supply. Inspectors were using a paper-bound process for inspecting the state's feed manufacturing facilities, and for mailing inspection forms to CDA offices to be recorded manually. This double data-entry process was inefficient and...

Tags: Agency, Decision-making, Communications Decency Act, Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Microsoft Office, Government, Office Suites, Software

Case studies

CD3WD Complete (ZIP)

CD3WD is a collection of high-quality 3rd world development information on agriculture, health, appropriate technology, construction, food processing, crop storage, woodwork, metalwork, electrical trades, education, and computer skills. All material is HTM and PDF, and is therefore platform independent.

Tags: CD3WD, Consultant, Productivity, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2006-04-18

Microsoft Access Reports - Separating Information

I have created a report where specific information is ordered by department and I'm trying to get each department on a separate page in the report but I get the accounting department on one page and part of the sales department, and so on. I'd like to know how to...

Tags: RPosten@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Access

Discussion threads 2007-07-23

Create an IT Service Department/Section

I am the IT Manager for a company and I am considering starting an section or department to do IT Service. My target would be to support outside clients/customers. I would like some thoughts and ideas on the best way to form a department within the IT

Tags: Cweb, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-01-02