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posted 20 Jul 2004
Japanese to deploy e-government communications network
Citizens in Kaneda Town in Okinawa, Japan are one click closer to e-government after authorities there selected a network that will allow people to exchange educational, administrative and community information freely.
Kaneda’s citizens will be able access linked public facilities, such as the town hall, resident associations, welfare associations, police departments and hospitals.
Alcatel has provided Kaneda with fifty OmniSwitch 6600 switches at the edge of the network in over 40 places to utilise an authenticated virtual local area network (AVLAN) for enhanced mobility and security. The AVLAN technology will allow people to access those facilities from designated terminals within any linked facility, once their identity and password are verified.
www.alcatel.com
British Land deploys Plumtree
The UK’s largest publicly-listed real estate company, British Land, has chosen
Plumtree to implement its corporate portal.
British Land’s corporate portal is said to have improved both internal and partner communication and reduced cycle times across 15 business processes.
The portal was designed to centralise the organisation’s applications for knowledge sharing and information processing into a single web-based environment.
www.britishland.com
www.plumtree.com
High-speed on the high seas
Connexion by Boeing, a division of Boeing, will test a high-speed internet connectivity program with maritime shipping over the North Atlantic beginning in August 2004.
Connexion will provide Vancouver-based Teekay Shipping with a 2.5 mbps connection to a vessel and a 256 kbps connection from a vessel – a speed much faster than the more common narrowband communication systems.
The capability will allow users to access the internet and firewall-protected corporate intranets, send and receive e-mails, open large attachments from incoming e-mails, and access news, weather or destination information.
www.boeing.com
www.teekay.com
Bechtel picks Documentum
Engineering and construction colossus Bechtel has standardised their operations by choosing Documentum’s Enterprise Content-Management Platform for all their global content.
Bechtel will use Documentum’s Records Manager software to identify, protect and capture business-critical records and content, and implement procedures for secure disposition.
www.documentum.com
www.bechtel.com
Police national legal database picks PDMS
The UK Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has awarded Isle of Man-based firm Professional Data Management Services with a contract for supplying content management and database software.
The PNLD acts as a legal training and information resource for all police forces
in England and Wales, and organisations such as the British Transport Police, the Ministry of Defence and the National Criminal Defence Service.
www.pdms.com
Lufthansa opts for Eedo
Eedo Knowledgeware Corporation’s ForceTen system has been chosen to develop learning content for training and knowledge transfer at German airline Lufthansa.
The strategy is designed to allow the airline to capitalise on existing training personnel to maintain levels of quality and availability of training with reduced budgets.
www.luthansa.com
Intranet provider offers solution to convention clutter
Intranets.com, a US-based provider of on-demand collaboration services, will provide its service for free to Boston-area businesses affected by the July 26-29 Democratic National Convention.
Through August 31, Intranets.com will offer its service free of charge to help commuters work productively from remote locations during the convention.
The company’s collaboration service allows workers to share documents, schedule meetings, exchange database information, assign tasks, post announcements, or conduct real-time meetings – all online – without having to be physically in the office.
Any DNC-affected area company can take advantage of the offer, which includes premium services such as web conferencing and 300 free audio-conferencing minutes.
www.intranets.com/dnc
NCAA steps towards digital records
The governing body of American college sports has decided to digitise 21,000 pages of paper records for three sports.
Starting with baseball, softball and outdoor track, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) hopes to develop an online searchable archive of statistical data on teams, scores and biographical information on student athletes from 104 years of championship games.
Using content-management provider ThomasTech Solutions, the NCAA plans to build a web-based interface that will allow users to search by year, sport, school, athletic conference or student athlete. Users will also be able to search for individual events, box scores and student athlete statistics.
www.ncaa.org
www.thomastechsolutions.com
Museum looks to expand online operations
The Natural History Museum has chosen to expand their online operations by switching the management of their website to Percussion Software’s Rythmyx 5 content-management system.
When combined with in-house resources, the new software will allow for more updating and customisation of information.
www.nhm.ac.uk
Engineering firm improves regional e-mail
Arup, the worldwide engineering consultancy firm, has managed to double network WAN capacity in their African offices.
The company installed two separate versions of Peribit’s Sequencer Reducer unit in its London, Lagos, Gaborone, Port Louis and Johannesburg offices, and avoided the steep costs associated with bandwidth upgrade in Africa.
www.peribit.com
www.arup.com
Working with Business shows off solution
The National Working with Business Project has demonstrated a new solution for municipal governments wanting to set up an area on their websites dedicated to business customers.
The website is delivered as a package of software tools to enable installation of a ready-made, but customisable area for business users within the authority’s main website. It has its own structure, layout and navigation, a content management facility, e-forms, and pre-populated content including a feed from the Small Business Service.
www.workingwithbusiness.org.uk
Portsmouth joins up online services
The authority of Portsmouth will join up its online services by upgrading search facilities on its website and intranet.
The move to upgrade is designed to improve the speed and effectiveness with which citizens can communicate with the council either online or over the phone.
APR Smartlogik will provide the authority with the Semaphore system, a taxonomy management, automated categorisation and intelligent search solution. It will be integrated with the council’s existing content-management system.
www.portsmouth.gov.uk
