IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- What if cities could improve services for their citizens without increasing costs? Cities are complex organizations, with numerous departments in charge of a wide range of essential functions, from water management to public safety. Collaboration across those groups is critical for addressing crises, successfully completing projects and enhancing the efficiency of daily operations. IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities offers a centralized, real-time collaborative environment for planning, organizing, ...

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Government by design - Using strategic planning to design the business of government [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- Government by design is the concept of applying strategic planning for government in a form that gives a comprehensive view of your entire organization and the services your organization provides. With repeatable and analytical strategic planning capabilities, your government organization can analyze capabilities and resources to achieve goals consistent with your strategy and priorities. This white paper introduces the IBM Rational? solution for government by design and describes how ...

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Smarter Cities: The Challenges in Overcoming Aging Infrastructures [ Source: IBM ]
May 2012- The modern city is a system of systems. To become smarter, a city must be transformed to optimize the use of largely finite resources. IBM Rational solutions help plan and deliver Smarter Cities by aligning city, business and citizen interests and by prioritizing investments with the ability to execute and govern for a smart future. This ebook describes the roadblocks which stand in the way of cities attempting to streamline operations, gain greater efficiencies and ...

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Opening up government [ Source: IBM ]
March 2012- The pressure on governments to make better choices, deliver results and demonstrate accountability is intensifying. Recent headlines reflect tensions on multiple fronts due to economic and fiscal uncertainty amid social and political change. They also highlight new dynamics in the relationships among citizens, organizations and their governments long in the making. "Open" principles such as accessibility, transparency, collaboration and participation lie at the heart of these expectations.

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Analytics for Achievement Understand success and boost performance in primary and secondary education [ Source: IBM ]
March 2012- Few would dispute that education paves the way to personal and societal prosperity. Education has the power to lift people out of poverty, it also helps us live fuller lives, make wiser choices and contribute to our communities in more meaningful ways. Education creates equality by opening up opportunities to everyone, not just those with privileged backgrounds. Most countries recognize the importance of investing in high-quality education. The United ...

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ROI Case Study IBM DC Water [ Source: IBM ]
March 2012- The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) provides water, sewer, and wastewater treatment services to nearly 600,000 residents, 1.6 million annual visitors, and 700,000 workers in the District of Columbia and parts of Virginia and Maryland. Nucleus Research examined DC Water's adoption of IBM Business Analytics and found that the deployment enabled employees to utilize more information when making decisions, resulting in lower contract labor costs, the recapture of ...

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Improve your buildings IQ with IBMsolutions forSmarter Buildings: Better buildings for a better bottom line [ Source: IBM ]
March 2012- In today's building management environment, organizations are stretching out capital improvement projects and delaying upgrades. At the same time, they still must maintain their existing assets and ensure tenant satisfaction. They are looking for ways to consolidate space and improve space planning. Concurrently, energy costs are rising. Commercial buildings consume more electricity than any other type of physical asset or structure -- and they generate approximately 10 percent of all ...

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Private Sector Cyber Security as a National Security Issue [ Source: Bloomberg Government ]
January 2012- In this revealing study, Bloomberg Government discusses the need for the U.S. government and corporations to plug cyber-security gaps that threaten the economy, sensitive data and military communications. Bloomberg Government defense analyst Rob Levinson examines the ongoing efforts to expand the government's role in securing non-government systems, and discusses concerns over costs and privacy issues.

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Colorado Community College System supports successful student enrollment with improved availability [ Source: HP/Intel ]
December 2011- Colorado Community College System resolves performance issues for mission-critical applications.

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Columbus State University serves extended community with flexible, scalable HP Networking solutions [ Source: HP/Intel ]
December 2011- Use a Converged Infrastructure of HP ProCurve networking solutions and a consolidated, virtualized HP server and storage environment to deliver high quality services to three remote campuses, power virtual classrooms, and support a projected enrollment increase of 25 percent.

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