Author Archive
David Essex
Cloud & Infrastructure
Radio everywhere
The Arkansas Wireless Information Network incorporates legacy and new radios in a digital, interoperable system that works statewide.
- By David Essex
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
Cloud & Infrastructure
Models for business
BPM tools get to work on workflow and collaboration.
- By David Essex
Cloud & Infrastructure
Group think
Web-enabled collaboration software gives you powerful new ways to get people and information together.
- By David Essex
Cloud & 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
Cloud & Infrastructure
Double vision
Project management tools can combine the long view with fine-grained details.
- By David Essex
Cloud & 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
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
Cloud & 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
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
Talking virtual reality
High definition tools, desktop software take conferencing by storm.
- By David Essex
Cloud & Infrastructure
Enter here
No longer the 'next big thing' of the late 1990s, Web portals are back.
- By David Essex
Data & Analytics
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
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