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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Operating on the Cutting Edge
Science Systems and Analysis
Raytheon-Pasadena is responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of the Science Investigator Processing Systems (SIPS) for both instruments. We support data analysis, science software design, development, integration and testing. The TES and MLS missions are in their second year of measuring the Earth's greenhouse gases, pollution and aerosols in atmosphere. We also support the upcoming Orbiting Carbon Observatory.
Ocean science support, from model design and implementation, to data analysis and forecasting ocean events is another area of our expertise. The Regional Ocean Modeling team supporting JPL scientists has just completed participation in the very successful Monterey Bay summer modeling and measurement campaign MB06.
Above is an illustration of the Raytheon design for the Integrated Ocean Observing System performed under contract to NOAA which Raytheon Pasadena and Raytheon Aurora, both part of Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems business, collaborated on.
ConnX eHR
The Employee Services Portal (ESP) is the essential foundation for ConnX's eight HRIS modules and provides Employee/Manager Self Service to your workforce.
ConnX modules integrate with Meridian payroll software and can be added individually or as a fully integrated system, depending on the needs of your business.
After implementation is complete, our account management, support, education and consulting services will ensure ConnX e-HR continues to deliver value to your organisation.
Thales launches standards-based encryption key management appliance
TEMS is the first standards-based key manager available with draft IEEE P1619.3 key management standard support and will support the final specification, due out early 2010. Subsequent releases will also support the recently announced OASIS KMIP key management standard.
Earlier this year, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), headed by IBM, Thales, HP, and EMC, with support from Seagate, Netapp, LSI, and Brocade, proposed a standardized encryption management specification known as KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol).
Organizations have a desire to deploy encryption across the enterprise, explains OASIS in a KMIP FAQ. They often deploy separate encryption for different business uses – laptops, storage, databases, and applications. In general, enterprises have a lack of confidence that, once encrypted, IT managers will be able to actually recover the encrypted data when they’ll need to.
"As data breaches continue to embarrass companies and incur real costs, security initiatives have naturally focused on the storage infrastructure. The use of encryption within the switching fabric, back-up tapes, drives, arrays, and host adapters is rapidly becoming essential for safeguarding sensitive information, but many organizations are concerned about reliability and data recoverability issues," says Jon Oltsik, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group.
KMIP looks to solve this issue by offering interoperability across encryption and key management systems. The primary focus is to offer a way to standardize communication between encryption systems that need to consume keys, and the key management systems that create and manage them.
“KMIP enables the industry to have any encryption system communicate with any key management system. Through this interoperability, enterprise will be able to deploy a single enterprise key management infrastructure to mange keys for all encryption systems in the enterprise that require symmetric keys, asymmetric keys pairs, certificates and other security objects,” OASIS documentation explains.
TEMS, available in July, Thales said, will support legacy or proprietary key management interfaces to provide storage managers the flexibility to utilize encryption at various points within their storage environments and to take advantage of pre-certified integration with their preferred storage systems.
Business Unit of Tsukiden Software Philippines, Inc. as a Capability Maturity Model Integration
TSPI was recommended for CMMI 1.2 Level 3 by its Lead Appraiser, Dr. Vinit Maheshwari, Director of Maverick Quality Advisory Services Private Limited and CMMI-certified High Maturity Lead Appraiser last June 18, 2010. After 26 days, the recommendation was accepted and approved for public use by Carnegie-Mellon SEI.
The Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI for short, is an internationally-recognized process improvement approach that helps guide organizations to integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.
United Space Alliance Honors Dekker, Ltd.
USA Supplier Relations representative Gary Henderson opened the presentation with a brief history of USA’s position as NASA’s chief contractor responsible for the Space Shuttle program, and then turned his attention to the future of space exploration.
“We are going back to the moon and to Mars,” said Henderson, “It’s not fantasy anymore.” NASA will retire the Space Shuttle program in 2010, switching to a rocket-propelled vehicle called Ares for the upcoming Constellation missions to the International Space Station, the moon, and eventually to Mars, Henderson said.
Henderson expressed his esteem for Dekker, Ltd.’s recent efforts in supplying USA with project management training and software applications that enable sound earned value management and NASA 533 reporting, which NASA requires its contractors to provide. “We have noticed that things are going right, and we appreciate it,” Henderson said.
USA President, CEO and STS-34 (Atlantis) Shuttle Astronaut Mike McCulley then presented Dekker, Ltd. President and CEO Simon Dekker with the award, which consisted of a framed and embossed certificate, signed by McCulley, thanking Dekker, Ltd. for its dedicated service.
“What you are doing and how you are doing it is really key to us right now,” said McCulley, emphasizing the success that USA has enjoyed with the Dekker PMIS™ (Project Management Information System) software suite, education and consulting services. “You have been an excellent vendor; truly teammates,” McCulley said.
“Dekker, Ltd. software has been used by various NASA contractors since 1986, and I am proud to know that we will be on the last Shuttle mission and beyond to the moon and Mars with the Constellation program,” said Dekker.
McCulley and Henderson stressed the importance of Dekker’s role in providing sound project management and process control in performing space exploration missions safely and efficiently.
“The astronauts’ lives are in our hands,” said Henderson.
McCulley, a former Shuttle Astronaut, elaborated on the difficulties and the wonders involved in space travel. He described how a piece of foam traveling at 500 miles per hour could create a breach in the tough armor of the Shuttle exterior, an unforeseen phenomenon that caused the Columbia disaster in 2003. He then explained that the problem had since been solved, and that manned space flight has always been and will continue to be dangerous, but that scientists and engineers will continue to learn from the cumulative mistakes and successes of the past in order to better plan for future missions.
McCulley closed the presentation by fielding questions from the audience, one of which was, “Which do you find scarier: takeoff or landing?” McCulley simply said that the two were different. “In space travel you have three parts,” he said, “the getting there, the being there, and the coming back.” Each one has its own character, explained McCulley, and each has its own wonders and thrills.
Then McCully paused for a moment, recounting a memory that seemed to supersede his train of thought. “I remember one time in orbit,” he said, “I managed to get my eyes so close to the window that all I could see was space coming at me. Now, I’ve driven fast cars, flown fast jets and the like, and in all my experience with speed, it’s always been very rough and very loud. But looking out of that window, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour [or five miles per second], there was no noise. And the movement was smooth. I’ll never forget that – speed without sound.” He added, “I am truly the luckiest man alive.”
United Space Alliance has been a Dekker, Ltd. customer since the Fall of 2006, implementing the full Dekker PMIS™ suite of software tools, education and consulting support for a robust project, program and EVM component to the Constellation program.
ABOUT UNITED SPACE ALLIANCE
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, United Space Alliance, LLC (USA) is one of the world’s leading space operations companies. Established in 1996 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), USA is equally owned by The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) and employs people in Texas, Florida, Alabama and the Washington, D.C. area.
USA manages and conducts space operations work involving the operation and maintenance of multi-purpose space systems, including systems associated with NASA's human space flight program, Space Shuttle applications beyond those of NASA and other reusable launch and orbital systems beyond the Space Shuttle and Space Station. For more information on USA, visit www.unitedspacealliance.com.
ABOUT DEKKER, LTD.
Founded in 1984, Dekker, Ltd., is an Ontario, California-based project management education, consulting, and software company. Dekker has been a leading provider of enterprise project management (EPM), project portfolio management (PPM), and earned value management (EVM) solutions. Dekker provides commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software to commercial enterprises, government contractors, and government and civilian agencies to help build and maintain the discipline of an integrated project management process. The Dekker suite of project management tools provides maximum profitability and return on investment, while also enabling organizations to easily meet the requirements of regulatory standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, ANSI/EIA Standard 748-98A, and the OMB Circular A-11, 2003, Exhibit 300 reporting requirements.
The “New Model of Care”
However, the news in primary care is not all bad. Despite the stresses, and perhaps in part because of them, primary care physicians have been forced to reevaluate their work and to determine its true value to those that they serve, their patients. A new focus on quality with measurable improvements in health outcomes is driving physicians and health systems to define a “New Model of Care” that is patient-centered, safe, timely, effective, equitable, and efficient.
A pioneer in this effort, Dr. Ed Wagner, M.D., has described “The Planned Care Model”. This model of care, developed with the support of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation identifies the essential elements of a health care system that encourage high-quality care. These elements are the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support and clinical information systems.
Family Medicine of Port Angeles has embraced the planned care model while pioneering the use of the electronic health record on the North Olympic Peninsula. We have been measuring and improving the health statistics of the thousands of patients we care for and are redesigning our clinic to continue to provide measurable improvements in care. These changes are designed to streamline the process of care while fulfilling our mission: To provide our patients with the highest quality primary care in the world.
A pioneer in this effort, Dr. Ed Wagner, M.D., has described “The Planned Care Model”. This model of care, developed with the support of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation identifies the essential elements of a health care system that encourage high-quality care. These elements are the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support and clinical information systems.
Project Management Applications
You will propose, plan and execute a full-scale project under typical organizational constraints. Follow your project through the life cycle, resolving issues of performance, scheduling and control as you address questions of leadership and management. Each team member will take a turn as project manager, defining objectives and performing tasks and producing deliverables critical to the project’s success.
You will receive a complimentary copy of ESI’s Project Management Tools CD for your use, following the classroom experience.
Confirm your mastery of the core principles of project management in this experiential course and gain the hands-on confidence to practice new skills in your organization.
Participants in this course will receive ESI’s Earned Valued Formula Finder, which puts the information you need to determine cost, schedule, estimate at completion and estimate to complete values for your projects right at your fingertips.
ICERTIS
Computer Network Support and Management
Implementation and Management Support
It will be better to change some business process if possible, rather than customizing. When an organization changes their some business processes, change management expert is required. People resist change. Change management expert will guide how to change, and explain the benefits of changes to the employees. ERP system helps in changing the process; it is designed and developed by adopting best practices of specific industries.
Internal Change Management: An ERP implementation entails changes in business processes and reporting structure. Addressing this paradigm move is a process that the organization has to go through. This will help in achieving the acceptability of the ERP users.
Change Management Drivers:
Employees: Employees are the key players in any ERP implementation. The employees of the organization will be in the capacity of process owners, software users and administrators of the ERP software. The main challenge of an ERP implementation is to achieve the acceptability of the system to the employees and for them to perceive the benefits to the organization and to their way of working.
Process: One of the returns on investment (ROI) is adopting business best practices by virtue of an ERP system. Little change in the business process will reduce the chance of implementation failure. Minimum or no customization is very good for any ERP implementation. These processes impact the effectiveness levels to be attained by the organization.
Technology: Implementation of ERP system automatically entails adopting technology that will address easy scalability, eradication of distance and upgradeability to latest technologies.
Organization Commitment: ERP system has to be viewed as a process enabler rather than a software package to be installed and run. The implementation process is a journey towards achieving organizational effectiveness. This demands a very strong commitment of the top management throughout the entire process.
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CarieScan PRO
The CarieScan Caries Management Support Cycle can be delivered by the CarieScan PRO.
The CarieScan Caries Management Cycle helps the dental team co-ordinate caries management and explain the various steps to patients.
This technology employed in CarieScan PRO differs from conventional caries detection methods, which can sometimes lead to errors which allow caries to continue as irreversible and progressive decay leading, in turn, to early and then repeated restorations and spiralling costs.
The choice of clinical action(s) for individual patients will vary, according to their current caries status and risk profile, from preventive to restorative or combinations of both. The use of CarieScan PRO as part of a dental assessment can reveal established hidden dentine lesions (not seen as part of a careful conventional visual examination) which need prompt restorative care. CarieScan PRO may also detect initial lesions where preventive care can stablilse or even reverse the caries process. Most of these hidden and initial lesions would not be clearly evident to the dentist, even if radiographic examination were used.
To consider the CarieScan Caries Management Cycle in a little more detail, set out below are definitions and then key elements of the seven steps in the Cycle:
Presentation Folders and Business Activities
Almost all the large companies and businesses engage in various business activities. These are necessary to run various business projects. These activities include presentations, seminars, sales reports, meetings, conferences and many others of this nature. In these situations, the use of a presentation folder facilitates the situation in many ways by managing the documents properly.
Every company also likes to promote its business identity. They utilize various tools for this purpose. For example, stickers and banners can be used. For indoor marketing, the use of custom presentation folder also offers a good chance to serve the same purpose with good results. With their large sizes, they can serve this purpose with effective results and far wider reach.
The basic function of presentation folders is to manage documents in a manner that is effective for saving time and efforts. There are produced with such designs that are very useful in serving this basic purpose. With their pockets built on the inside of their covers, they can handle important business documents with safety and security.
These products can take advantage of various printing techniques. In fact, the printing alone can make a huge difference in the success of folder printing. This task requires the use of the best printing technologies. For example, full color CMYK printing process can be utilized to produce high quality products without any hassle.
One more thing that can make an impact is the use of customization options. Most of the printing companies offer them to their customers for better services. They can change anything in the design and shape of their product to make them more compatible with their needs.
Corporate Social Responsibility
There are many CSR initiatives running around the world representing the different corporations working across the globe. Earlier the purpose of the CSR department was totally different. It was not intended to bring up the name of the company. It was one of the most hated and difficult departments of the corporation to be in. Its major task was of fire fighting and resolving court issues. Employees in the CSR were thought to be amongst the most unfortunate of the employees working for the organization. Way back then, no one had ever thought in his wildest what a corporation will be doing through CSR.
Now CSR departments are being used though for the same purpose, but the model is totally different. Today CSR departments of responsible organizations are not sitting behind and waiting for the things to get worse. They are very proactive in what they do. They are always up and looking for any unseen situation arising out of the corporation's actions that might create problems for the communities with which their corporation works. Corporations with the time have realized their responsibilities. They can be seen playing very vital roles in the betterment of the communities with which they work. Some of the corporations offer education to the communities. Other organizations install recycling plants to minimize the damage that might be caused by their business operations. Corporate Social Responsibility with the time has become an effective way of collaboration between the communities and the corporations. In this way both cannot only convey their reservations but also build better integrated environments for each other to work. CSR department evolution took many turns the past. They have transformed themselves into front desks of businesses open for communities to talk, share, and sort mutual concerns as well as pressing issues.
The Importance of Logistics in Project Management
According to many, logistics is just the movement of goods. But this is a narrow view. The physical handling of goods is logistics. In general, this would include transportation of goods via sea, air or rail.
But there is more to it than this. In a much wider sense, logistics involves the physical layout, plant location, purchasing and even waste disposal. Effective logistics involves proper management and planning, accurate forecasting, inventory management, transporting, supervising of loading and unloading, customs clearing, cargo insurance, stowage supervision and warehousing. In short, logistics is the delivery of items accurately, efficiently and in a time bound manner to the place and person it is meant to be sent.
Since many projects these days are dependent on the timely delivery of inventory, proper logistics support is an important necessity. In any case, companies shell out approximately 10-35% of their total revenue on logistics. That is in itself evidence of the importance of logistics support in project management. Globalization, free market and high competition has made it imperative that companies deliver and receive with clockwork precision and on time.
Any project is a time bound assignment. Delays caused by faulty logistics cause not just loss of revenue but also lead to the loss of reputation and customer satisfaction. These are priceless assets, which are almost impossible to recoup once lost. That is why experts say that proper planning is the key to great logistics.
For reputed companies, project logistics involves the management and handling of large shipments on a global basis. These shipments would involve heavy equipment, oversized cargo and cargo that is completely time sensitive or requires a very high degree of security. To offer complete project logistics, companies often undertake feasibility studies and come up with customized, tailored solutions. This is the mark of a great logistics expert.
Some projects involve tricky requirements. It is up to the logistics team to orchestrate even the most complicated supply chains. To be viable and successful, a good logistics partner must bring with them several qualities:
- They must be competitive in their price while offering turnkey solutions that the project requires
- Route optimization must be a priority
- Complete planning and end to end solutions must be provided seamlessly
- Must provide single points of contact for all services through strategically positioned hubs.
Our project logistics team is specially set up to handle project cargoes for the civil construction and major infrastructure industries. Our operations allow you to focus on your core responsibilities.
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