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- Assessment of Data Quality
- Veterans Affair's (VA's) ability to accomplish its mission is dependent on the quality of its data. Each day, VA employees use data to make decisions that affect America's veterans. In delivering medical care, processing benefits, and providing burial services, data accuracy and reliability are paramount. Each program office has initiated...
- White papers 2005-11-17
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- The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa Is Preventing Identity Fraud
- South Africa's Department of Home Affairs is responsible for the central registry of all citizens and permanent residents, maintaining their birth, death, marriage and related records - no small task in a country with 43 million citizens. The fact that South Africa's government and private sector each lose approximately U.S....
- Case studies
- Getting over laptop loss
- why is that kind of information being stored on a laptop?in this day & age of high speed internet connections, secure vpn connections to workplace networks why is the FBI of all people storing highly confidential/sensitive data on more than 26 million U.S. military veterans on a laptop pc that...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Implements Getronics Easily Configurable IT Support System
- The Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs employs approximately 2,800 people worldwide. Their IT systems are the absolutely critical means of contact with the Brussels headquarters. It must be available 24/7 days, without fail. They wanted to set up an IT support system that is easily and extensively configurable and...
- Case studies
- Stolen VA Laptop has been recovered
- The WashingtonPost reports that on June 29th officials announced that theLaptop stolen from an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs had beenrecovered. The Laptop hosted a databasecontaining the personal details (names, dob, social security numbers etc) ofmillions of current and former personnel. The recovered laptop and external hard...
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- India's Ministry of Home Affairs Improves Policing of Remote Areas
- The Immigration Section of the Andamn and Nicobar Islands Police Department authorizes, monitors, and reports on visits to the islands by foreign travelers via Port Blair. They wanted to overcome problems associated with the slow transfer of information from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the remote Andaman and Nicobar...
- Case studies
- Oracle Case Study: United States Marine Corps, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Manpower Information Division
- The United States Marine Corps, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Manpower Information Division wanted to maximize the use of technology to disseminate information within the Manpower Department of Headquarters Marine Corps and to Marines and civilians worldwide, and present a contemporary and intuitive Web presence for public access to Manpower Information....
- Case studies
- Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Builds Integrated Service Delivery Platform
- The Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources promotes competitive, high quality communications services in Ireland, manages maritime and coastal affairs, and handles mining rights. The department wanted to gain an integrated view of Ireland's land and marine resources and ensure that European Union directives on sustainable fishing and land...
- Case studies
- Chatham House Brings Its Affairs 'To Order'
- Chatham House, formerly known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) is one of the world's leading institutes for the analysis of international issues. Founded in 1920, Chatham House is an independent research institute, think tank and membership organisation for individuals, corporations, governments and NGOs. Microsoft Dynamics GP provided...
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Tax: Creating Value or Managing Risk? - Opposing Forces or Effective Allies
- The tax affairs of organistaions are rarely perceived as glamorous. Compliance with tax laws and regulations involves necessary but mundane activities. So why is it important to manage an organisation's tax affairs? The obvious answer is that effective tax management can have a material impact on an organisation's bottom line....
- White papers 2005-05-25
- Personal data of 26+million veterans stolen
- Well, some idiot has doneit again (carelessly handled other people's private information) and this time someone needs to serve some serious prison time if onlyto set an example and put an end to this absurd situation where schools,hospitals, and government all demand our personal information before rendering services and then...
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- VA Senate Joint Oversight Committee hearing today
- V.A. Sec. Jim Nicholson is testifying before the Senatesjoint oversight hearing. Hear it online (CSPAN-3) NOW at: http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30 The audio and video feed will also probably be available in C-SPAN archives later._______________________Equifax has offered special services to everyone who may havebeen affected http://www.equifax.com/siteAssets/productPromos/veteran/veteran_breach.htmTo place an initial fraud alert on...
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- DIMA Speeds SAP R/3 Rollout With Mercury Application Testing Tools
- The Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) is responsible for managing the movement of people in and out of Australia. The large government facility with thousands of remote users needed to ensure flawless performance of their SAP R/3 system before going live. DIMA purchased Mercury Interactive's TestDirector and...
- Case studies
- Denmark's Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs Standardizes Desktop
- Denmark's Ministry of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs enjoyed a 33% consolidation of its file and print servers after deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to replace a mixed network infrastructure of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. The Ministry also used automation features such as Remote...
- Case studies
- More on Veteran Data Theft
- Full information is finally seeping out and it turns out thatthe records were mostly of veterans and families of veterans discharged after1975.Although I suspected we werent being told the whole story simplybecause I was a Washington-based reporter, I didnt want to say it withoutevidence but apparently the VA delayed telling...
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Managing Student Affairs With Perl at the University of Papua New Guinea
- In 1999, the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) restructured its academic year from two semesters per year to three trimesters, with a week between each term. The change in the academic calendar led the School of Natural and Physical Sciences (SNPS) to re-evaluate the data entry process for student...
- Book chapters
- SAS Works for Slovenia: Slovenian Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs Meets EU Employment Policies With SAS Software
- Implementation of the newly adopted European employment policy and indicators is a demanding task for all EU member states. For Slovenia, the answer is the Labor Market Indicators System (LMIS) application, developed by the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs. SAS provides the analytic solution behind LMIS, which Slovenia...
- Case studies
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs Lays the Foundation for Results Oriented Public Management and eGovernment With SAP
- The main task of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA) is to facilitate an efficient Dutch economy with a strong and dynamic private sector. MEA set out to improve the effectiveness and integration of its business processes and management reporting enabled by information systems. They had already implemented SAP as...
- Case studies
- Slovenian Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs Meets EU Employment Policies With SAS Software
- Implementation of the newly adopted European employment policy and indicators is a demanding task for all European Union (EU) member states. It is especially difficult for new members of the EU, which may be still adapting to dramatic changes that encompass almost every aspect of life as they make the...
- Case studies
- VA Exposes active-duty records
- Just what is the definition of treason?I started thinking about that when I learned that not only has the other shoe dropped, an entire closet full of shoes may be cascading onto the floor in the VA data scandal.You see, it turns out that the information given out by the...
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
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