Erica Melton has joined the technical department of North Gate Labs as a developer. Melton, brings four years of programming experience to the position and will be providing programming and technical services in support of the Web Sales Tool software.
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Archive for May, 2005
Two senior developer/analysts at TiBA Solutions LLC have each published books on advanced software development techniques using Microsoft .Net. Tobin Titus under contract with Apress, has published a book entitled “Pro .Net 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading”. Holding a MCAD and a MCSD “Early Achiever” certification from Microsoft, Titus has co-authored three other books for Wrox Press.
William Ryan is currently a co-author on two books for Wiley Press and has just signed another contract with Addison-Wesley. Ryan has two books scheduled for release, “Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL”, and “Windows Indigo, Avalon, WinFX, and Longhorn Developer Beta Preview”. Mr. Ryan is recognized by Microsoft as an MVP in ADO.NET and the Compact Framework.
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Google has launched a Personalize Your Homepage service that looks like it wants to be your portal page similar to the offering from Yahoo. As in every Google service, this one is labelled “BETA.” The service offers Google News, Gmail, Weather, and stock prices in a lean, clean interface that appears below a very prominent Google search box.
Learn more at http://labs.google.com.
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Nortel and IBM have announced the signing of an agreement designed to support customized products across a range of market segments. As the first step in this technology, research and services relationship, the companies will establish a Nortel-IBM Joint Development Center in Research Triangle Park, NC to collaborate on the design and development of new products and services.
At the Nortel-IBM Joint Development Center, personnel from both companies will enhance and extend current products, drawing from various divisions within Nortel and IBM. They expect to work initially on a new class of blade servers that combine IBM’s Server Technology and Nortel’s carrier-grade communications expertise.
Nortel expects to utilize IBM engineering and technical services, for a number of projects, all aimed at broadening Nortel end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications and wireless broadband offerings.
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Captaris, Inc. has announced that the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) Procurement Division has deployed Captaris Workflow to automate its procurement system as a step toward becoming a paperless operation.
“We handle millions of documents every year,” said Steve Collins, Information Technology Manager for SCDOT. “It was a paper nightmare keeping track of all that data.” Due to inefficient people-intensive processes, it sometimes took two weeks before the processing of an order requisition began. Buyers in the SCDOT Procurement Division were often on the phone calling associates to determine where a document was in its approval process—too often at the bottom of a stack of paper on someone’s desk. Multiple document versions complicated the process and, as is often the case with paper, documents were sometimes misplaced. The division also faced the issue of ever-expanding space requirements to store all the paper to comply with records management policies.
In 2004, SCDOT worked with Metalogix, a North Carolina-based solutions provider and Captaris partner, to deploy an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Captaris Workflow. Metalogix designed, developed, tested and deployed the initial EDMS delivery in 60 days. SCDOT wanted a workflow application that would leverage its investment in existing mainframe and Microsoft applications. A Microsoft .NET-enabled workflow engine, Captaris Workflow integrates SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with business processes (such as task lists and routing) from SQL Server, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 and Windows.
“By tightly integrating with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and other Microsoft applications and legacy systems, Captaris Workflow helps state government agencies like the SCDOT rapidly achieve ROI and streamline processes previously bogged down with paper and inefficiencies,” said Scott Suhy, general manager for U.S. Public Sector State and Local Government at Microsoft Corp.
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The InnoVision Technology Awards Program is the Upstate’s premier awards program focused exclusively on celebrating innovation and technological excellence
InnoVision provides high visibility and exposure for your organization amid the Upstate business community. Each finalist will be featured in a 30-second video at the InnoVision Technology Awards Dinner on November 9, 2005. Each finalist will also be featured at a Finalist Reception to be held September 27, 2005 at the Poinsett Club and at a 2006 InnoVision Technology Forum.
To submit a nomination, sign up as a sponsor, or receive more information about the Awards Dinner or Technology Forum Series, visit www.InnoVisionAward.org or send an e-mail to info@InnoVisionAward.org.
Deadline for award entries: July 11, 2005
Awards Dinner: November 9, 2005
Winners in each award category will be announced and featured at the Awards Dinner.
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The InnoVision Technology Awards Program is the Upstate’s premier awards program focused exclusively on celebrating innovation and technological excellence
InnoVision provides high visibility and exposure for your organization amid the Upstate business community. Each finalist will be featured in a 30-second video at the InnoVision Technology Awards Dinner on November 9, 2005. Each finalist will also be featured at a Finalist Reception to be held September 27, 2005 at the Poinsett Club and at a 2006 InnoVision Technology Forum.
To submit a nomination, sign up as a sponsor, or receive more information about the Awards Dinner or Technology Forum Series, visit www.InnoVisionAward.org or send an e-mail to info@InnoVisionAward.org.
Deadline for award entries: July 11, 2005
Awards Dinner: November 9, 2005
Winners in each award category will be announced and featured at the Awards Dinner.
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The IT Leadership Council will meet May 27th to discuss Data Privacy, Data Retention, and Intellectual Property Issues in the Real World. The discussion will be led by Paul Spencer of Ameco, and David Steinour, CIO of Furman University.
The IT Leadership Council, presented jointly by the GSA Technology council, and the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce is an invitation only peer level discussion of the strategic issues facing the upstate’s senior IT professionals.
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UPDATE: IT Leadership Council Information is now at http://www.gsatc.org/groups/it-leadership-council/
The IT Leadership Council will meet May 27th to discuss Data Privacy, Data Retention, and Intellectual Property Issues in the Real World. The discussion will be led by Paul Spencer of Ameco, and David Steinour, CIO of Furman University.
The IT Leadership Council, presented jointly by the GSA Technology council, and the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce is an invitation only peer level discussion of the strategic issues facing the upstate’s senior IT professionals.
To learn more or request an invitation, contact Damien Stevens at 864-585-2080 x 120 or visit http://www.gsatc.org/IT-Leadership-Council.
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