Buy or build workforce apps? It depends.
Human resources tools now on the market are likely to offer some combination of analytical and predictive features.
Software helps police manage lawful access to forensics info
Cellebrite mobile permission management helps admins manage data access privileges to groups of users on a right-to-know or need-to-know basis.
Plug-ins ease the move to XML
Connecticut needed a way to keep its online regulatory code up to date and found a way to move it from Word to XML files.
Can big data solve government's HR challenges?
A new generation of workforce applications, from recruitment to insider threat analysis, promises to bring big data tools to government's complex human resources challenges.
GCN Awards nominations open
The annual GCN Awards honor public sector IT teams whose technical ingenuity, resourcefulness in the use of IT and tactics in managing projects have had an extraordinary effect on the ability of agencies to carry out their mission. Nominate your team's project today!
Treasury's Greenbook now available as e-book
With the e-book version of the Greenbook, Treasury joins the list of other agencies making the move to digital publications.
Making IT security a priority at VA
In the wake of 16 years of information security problems at the Veterans Affairs Department, Congress is considering legislation to focus management attention on the sprawling department's struggling security program.
WavePoint platform enables remote M2M networks
FreeWave Technology's secure networking system is designed to ease linking remote and hard-to-reach industrial sites using high-speed wireless Internet routing.
NARA plans online public access to relocated Alaska archives
The National Archives and Records Administration has begun consolidating a number of facilities using storage, digitization and networking technology so it can continue providing access to records that will be relocated.
XML, workflow tools ease the burden of managing regulations
Connecticut's e-Regulation project uses XML authoring and workflow management to bring the regulatory process into the 21st century.
DARPA office to grow defense technologies with biology
DARPA's new Biological Technology Office will create defense technology at the intersection of biology and the other physical sciences.
San Antonio goes to the cloud to speed up housing payments
The city's housing authority adopted Adobe EchoSign, a software-as-a-service e-signing application that cut the time to process housing assistance contracts by 98 percent.
When to move beyond relational databases
While RDBMSs will always be robust and powerful, consider document and graph databases to make applications easier to develop and faster to run.
Simulation and Game Institute opens at GMU
George Mason University and Prince William County have opened the Simulation and Game Institute on the school's Prince William Campus to encourage entrepreneurship in serious gaming.
Hadoop: The good, the bad and the ugly
Government IT managers should be wary of technology overreach and focus on Hadoop's known success areas.
Mecklenburg County extends employees' mobility, security
The North Carolina county combined Office 365, Microsoft Surface Pro tablets and Windows Azure to increase mobility and security – and save money.
Public interest labs to test open governance solutions
The Governance Lab at New York University and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network have formed a new research network, Open Governance, to study how to enhance collaboration and decision-making in the public interest.
Interoperability lab to test next-gen 911 services
Mobile technology provider TeleCommunications Systems Inc. will open an interoperability lab to help call handling services vendors test interfaces to next-generation 911 systems.
4 U.S. locales win smart city consulting
Winning cities get IBM expertise, consulting and recommendations to use to solve municipal problems through technology.
Penn State to auction its intellectual property online
Penn State will be the first university in the nation to directly oversee an online auction, where winners will receive licensing rights to patents derived from faculty research in the College of Engineering.
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