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August 6th, 2012 by Scott Roth
Like many, Armedia has customers who are upgrading their desktop computing environments from Windows XP to Windows 7 (Did anyone use Vista?). We recently ran into an interesting situation with one such customer who was using a customized WebDAV solution to allow users to quickly retrieve and edit documents from a back-end content management system. Their WebDAV solution had worked flawlessly for years with Windows XP, but with Windows 7, two really annoying problems cropped up. The first was that the user was prompted to authenticate with the WebDAV server three times. The second problem was that even after authentication (3x), documents were always retrieved in read-only mode and could not be saved back to the repository. Thus started the adventure to make WebDAV work with Windows 7.
After searching Google and other sources, two things became apparent:
- lots of people were having issues with WebDAV and Windows 7
- no one was using WebDAV quite the way we were.
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Tags: Windows Development
Posted in CMS, Content Authoring, Content Management, Enterprise Content Management, Information Sharing, Java, Open Source, Solution Integration, Solutions, Web Content Management, Webapps | No Comments »
February 2nd, 2012 by Allison Cotney
In the IT project world, conversations are technically based. In the business world, focus is on applications and business needs. This can (and often does) lead to the true personal value of these systems being overlooked.
Armedia had been awarded a contract with FederalConference.com (FedCon) who was in need of a system to aid them in event management after a sudden increase in their workload. This increase came after FedCon was selected for the Army Strong Bonds program, which orchestrates 3,000 events every year. This increase to FedCon’s events meant that they needed a system that must:
- Drive increased efficiencies throughout the Event Management Process
- Enhance Office Automation
- Provide real-time 24/7 access
- Standardize records keeping and centralization of event files
It was clear that FederalConference.com needed software for case management to help them with their issues.
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Tags: Information Sharing, Solution Integration
Posted in Information Sharing, Project Management, Solution Integration, Solutions, User Experience | No Comments »
December 13th, 2010 by kmcfadden
I call it “the question”. You’re in a crowded conference room and someone asks, (and it’s usually with the senior manager present), “could you give me a definition of content management?” Everyone looks at you, the learned professional for some wise insightful definition and you’re thinking wow how big is big. This would appear to be an easy question to answer. But, in reality it is not.
Experience shapes perception and everyone around the table has a different experience base when it comes to the idea of managing content. Research firms such as Gartner consider content management as part of the essential infrastructure enterprise landscape. But the term doesn’t generate the same instant recognition or understanding as, say, enterprise resource planning. Why is that? It’s simple; the company wouldn’t exist if it weren’t managing its financial resources. The fact that I’m in the room being asked “the question” confirms my suspicion that the company hasn’t developed a strategy for managing content.
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Tags: Content Management, data management
Posted in Enterprise Content Management, Information Sharing | 1 Comment »
January 19th, 2010 by James Bailey
As it relates to Case Management, NIEM is very important. The need for sharing information is vital for the war on terrorism as well as combating domestic crimes (i.e. drugs, sexual perpetrators and etc.). Law Enforcement agencies have to be able to share case related data and NIEM sets the framework for accomplishing that. Given that each agency has its own Case Management system that supports its business processes, security model, data structure and etc., there needs to be a common language/schema for these systems to export and import pieces or the entire case. NIEM is that standard.
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Tags: Information Exchange, XML
Posted in Case Management, Information Sharing, NIEM, Records Management | 1 Comment »
January 13th, 2010 by Jim Nasr
Those of you with affinity to old British pop culture or the unforgettable Madness of 80s fame (ahem: “my house in the middle of my street…”) will probably remember the infamous ”my name is Michael Caine” circular. Long before Rick Astley Rickrolling, poor old Michael was flavor-du-jour of everyman comedians looking for a quick, omnipresent quip. Well, forget all of that. These days, my name is NIEM!
NIEM which stands for the, inevitably, not so sexy sounding National Information Exchange Model is a formal information exchange schema developed by the US government (specifically DOJ and DHS) to further information sharing across Federal, and in time, State and Local government agencies and their business constituents. NIEM builds on from the much more bulky Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) model; an off-shoot of post 9/11 information sharing initiatives. The idea of NIEM (currently in version 2.1) is to provide a consistent, non-redundant, open standards based XML schema that has some well defined entities and activities for improved inter-agency communication and information sharing.
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Tags: Compliance Management Solutions, GJXDM, Information Exchange, records management, Taxonomy, XML
Posted in Case Management, Government IT, Information Sharing, NIEM, Records Management | 7 Comments »
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