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Thursday, February 19, 2004
SAIC Opens New Division in Hawaii :: The T Sector :: Everything Tech San Diego - Magazine, Web, Events
SAIC Opens New Division in Hawaii :: The T Sector :: Everything Tech San Diego - Magazine, Web, Events:
"The mission of the Pacific Technology Division is to provide advanced technology solutions for government and commercial clients in the Pacific region, primarily operating in the state of Hawaii. Current clients include the University of Hawaii at the Maui High Performance Computing Center, the Pacific Missile Range Facility, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Hawaiian-owned companies such as Akimeka. The employee-owners working at this site will include the division manager, Stephen A. Karwoski, program managers, administrators, engineers and computer scientists."
Data Model Dictionary
Data Model Dictionary: Nice little resource that answered my question on identifying and non-indentifying relationships. Now I can talk the talk!
adaptive path » six steps to better interviews and simplified task analysis
adaptive path » six steps to better interviews and simplified task analysis
Always looking for ways to focus analysis and get the necessary information when interviewing people, for whatever reason. It's always more interesting to get to the 'why' when talking to someone, and it seems to be more productive,
"Acknowledge your limitations, and encourage the interviewee to explain the mysterious points. You’re not looking for an explanation of the coefficient of gravity, but you are after the goals and steps the scientist employs. Goals and steps are easy to explain, even to someone with a limited grasp of physics."
Goals are the why...
Modeling the enterprise data architecture
Modeling the enterprise data architecture:
"We believe it is important to create powerful, simple, and effective models of the data structure from an enterprise viewpoint ? a set of models known as the 'enterprise data architecture.' This article describes a new approach, based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which we believe meets the real requirements for modeling an enterprise data architecture. "
This articles gives an overview, and some detail, of what is contained in the artifacts they consider a data archtecture. The following graphic illustrates what the components of the data architecture are...
And while they discuss the artifacts from business to technology, the suggest an approach to documenting the data architecture that sounds a little more realistic,
"...the data architecture is usually developed from the "middle-out," working from the data requirements of specific system interfaces and rationalization exercises, and not based on an exhaustive top-down process and information requirement analysis. This allows it to develop to address specific tactical and strategic requirements without unmanageable dependencies, and provides a cross-check to data analysis originated on the basis of separate top-down and bottom-up modeling exercises. "
Finally, they itemize a set of data principles that could be used in a common requirements vision document,
- Wherever possible, data must be simple to enter and must accurately reflect the situation; it must also be in a useful, usable form for both input and output.
- Data should only be collected if it has known and documented use(s) and value.
- Data should be readily available to those with a legitimate business need for it.
- Processes for data capture, validation, and processing should be automated wherever possible. Data should only be entered once.
- Processes that update a given data item should be standard across the enterprise.
- Data should be recorded as accurately and completely as possible, by the most informed source, as close as possible to its point of creation, in an electronic form at the earliest opportunity, and in an auditable and traceable manner.
- The cost of data collection and sharing should be minimized.
The enterprise, rather than any individual or business unit, owns all data. - Every data source must have a defined custodian (a business role) responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and security of that data.
- Data must be protected from unauthorized access and modification.
- Data should not be duplicated unless duplication is essential for practical reasons. In such cases, one source must be clearly identified as the master, there must be a robust process to keep the copies in step, and copies must not be modified.
- Data structures must be under strict change control, so that the various business and system implications of any change can be properly managed.
- Whenever possible, adopt international, national, or industry standards for common data models. When this is not possible, develop organizational standards instead.
Stern’s ’John’ to Announce ’Tonight Show’
Stern’s ’John’ to Announce ’Tonight Show’:
"Besides announcing, Melendez will be in sketches and will go out on interviews. Melendez is famous for embarrassing the people he talks to, but he won't be doing that sort of interview for Leno, the spokeswoman said."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Nokia sees powerful mobile future
BBC NEWS | Technology | Nokia sees powerful mobile future:
"There will be more products coming onto the market very soon that will make use of both mobile net and wi-fi, he said.
'In hotspots where wi-fi is available you can access that technology, but when you're on the motorway or at your home and you don't have wi-fi access, you hook up on to the cellular.' "
Greece may seek NATO guard at Olympics
Greece may seek NATO guard at Olympics :
"An American security firm, SAIC, is installing more than 1,300 closed-circuit television cameras on Athens streets and at athletic facilities. They will be linked to a centralized computer system that is capable of tracking cars and other vehicles across the city. The streets and athletic facilities will also be monitored by an airship, or blimp, hovering silently overhead.
David Tubbs, a former FBI agent who now works for SAIC, said one particular challenge for Athens is geography.
'Greece happens to have a lot of water, a lot of ports,' Tubbs said. As part of its E255 million contract with the government, SAIC is installing surveillance equipment, including underwater sensing devices in harbors."
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy:
"...the combined companies will begin the integration
of Version 1.0 of Onstream Media's platform with additional software that
Onstream Media has acquired from Virage, indexing and security technology
developed by SAIC and the additional hardware and software of Visual Data's
new Digital Asset Management service offering. The result will be a fully
robust Digital Asset Management system with a comprehensive feature set that
virtually any company, government agency or other entity having a need to
manage rich media content will be able to utilize in an affordable and highly
secure environment."
Roadblocks could slow RFID | CNET News.com
Roadblocks could slow RFID | CNET News.com:
"...in the rush to launch RFID projects, businesses may be overlooking a crucial element necessary to allow the technology to work smoothly: Making sure back-end databases and business applications can handle the massive amounts of information generated by RFID-enabled systems"
and closer to home...
"Other companies that stand to benefit from this effort are giant systems integrators such as Electronic Data Systems and SAIC, who aim to help aspiring RFID users pull together all the necessary pieces from various vendors."
Techweb > News > Vendors Bulk Up Instant-Messaging Wares > Instant-Messaging Products Target IT Departments > February 18, 2004
Techweb > News > Vendors Bulk Up Instant-Messaging Wares > Instant-Messaging Products Target IT Departments > February 18, 2004:
Here are some excerpts:
"IMLogic unveiled IMLinkage Preview Edition, designed to meld the now-divergent worlds of America Online, Yahoo and MSN instant messaging within corporate CRM, SFA and other applications. In addition, IMLogic's IM Manager product adds control, security, reporting, archiving and compliance functions to the consumer messaging services. "
"Websense Enterprise Instant Messaging Attachment Manager, a module that integrates into San Diego-based Websense's enterprise management console to impose restraints on attachments and files sent via instant messaging. "
"Convoq showed off its flagship Convoq ASAP Web conferencing product, which incorporates IM-like presence capabilities into Web conferencing.
