Author Archive
David Essex
Infrastructure
Radio everywhere
The Arkansas Wireless Information Network incorporates legacy and new radios in a digital, interoperable system that works statewide.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
EPA's meta(data)-morphosis
The Environmental Protection Agency's geospatial metadata system makes information more accessible and useful while enforcing federal mandates.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Models for business
BPM tools get to work on workflow and collaboration.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Group think
Web-enabled collaboration software gives you powerful new ways to get people and information together.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Everybody's in pictures
As online video becomes increasingly popular for meetings, training sessions and otheruses, agencies look to video management systems to help them keep track of it all.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Double vision
Project management tools can combine the long view with fine-grained details.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Putting Web 2.0 to work
2008 GCN Technology Leadership Award winner Nancy Sternberg's use of new technology tools gives Business.gov an edge.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
Get smart with your data
State, Coast Guard, FDA put business intelligence to work.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
Agency Award'Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | The 13 percent solution
2007 GCN Award: CMS team develops a centralized accounting system to get a handle on an eighth of the federal budget.
- By David Essex
Cybersecurity
ERM and document security
Enterprise rights management does more than just control access to your network. It also can help protect the data inside.
- By David Essex
Cybersecurity
The power of one password
Single sign-on systems help IT managers tighten security, cut help-desk costs and keep users happy.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Turning point
With its new version of SharePoint, Microsoft may have solved the problems that had hampered its use as a collaboration platform.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
ITAM Solutions
Selecting the best ITAM solution for your organization requires a close look at your infrastructure, reporting needs and integration requirements.
- By David Essex
Cybersecurity
Sum of the parts
Asset management tools help you make the most of what you have ' and deliver compliance reports, too.
- By David Essex
Cybersecurity
Bringing it all together
SOA design plays a key role in paring down secret data-sharing links.
- By David Essex
Cybersecurity
Widgets for digits
Fingerprint technology is a logical choice for ID cards, but interoperability questions stand in the way.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
Talking virtual reality
High definition tools, desktop software take conferencing by storm.
- By David Essex
Infrastructure
Enter here
No longer the 'next big thing' of the late 1990s, Web portals are back.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
Google Earth gives flight control a new dimension
Much of the U.S. Forest Service's Automated Flight Following pizzazz comes from Google Earth Pro client software.
- By David Essex
Digital Government
Air traffic control on the fire line
The U.S. Forest Service's Web-based tracking system and Google's 3-D imagery help make fighting wildfires safer and more efficient.
- By David Essex