"Best Solutions" Awards announced at GTC West's Conference on California's Future.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- GTC GTC See: Good 'til cancelled order GTC See good-till-canceled order (GTC). West's Conference on California's Future, the largest and most respected technology conference for state and local government, will present nine companies with "Best Solutions" awards during its expo at the Sacramento Convention Center The Sacramento Convention Center is the main center for events happening in Sacramento, California, USA, which encompasses three venues: The Exhibit Hall, The Community Center Theatre and the Memorial Auditorium. External links
The awards recognize industry technology solutions designed to address the needs of State and Local government. The firms honored and their solutions are listed below and will be showcased at the conference expo: AT&T - Provided the Sacramento Area Sewer District with a wireless solution which allowed better monitoring of water quality for over 45,000 households in Sacramento County. - Assisted the City and County of San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. with communication network solutions in the face of the 2007 Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, wildfires. Delegata - Managed, developed and implemented the Enterprise Tables Project (ETP ETP Eligible Termination Payment (Australian finance) ETP Equivalent Temps Plein (French: Full Time Equivalent) ETP European Technology Platform ETP Employment Training Panel ) which enabled the CA Department of Justice to easily maintain and share enterprise data. - Delivered a management project for the California Public Employees' Retirement Systems (CalPERS) which enabled implementation of its new pension operations platform, while simultaneously maintaining existing project schedules. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) - Helped the City of Syracuse, N.Y. Police Department have IT wireless access for its officers, from the field to their own network, creating increased public safety and communication among its officers. Kiefer Consulting, Inc. - Provided the CA Department of Fish and Game with project management and technology mentoring to build its Office of Spill Prevention and Response's first web-based application See Web application. for inland reporting of incidents. LuraTech, Inc. - Overcame data overload for two N.Y. State Departments by significantly reducing storage and network traffic requirements using highly compressed PDF/A PDF/A Portable Document Format Archive files. Natoma Technologies - Designed, developed, and implemented, for the CA Department of Health Care Services, the first Service Oriented Architecture suite of reusable web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. for any CA state department. Sharp Electronics Corporation - Developed an information management solution for the San Diego Fireman's Relief Association to instantly capture documents, increase indexing and archiving efficiency, and ensure greater security of documents. Trofholz Technologies, Inc. - Developed for Newcastle Elementary School Newcastle Elementary School is the only school located in the affluent city of Newcastle, Washington and serves grades kindergarten through 5th. Newcastle Elementary is part of the Issaquah School District and is a feeder school for Maywood Middle School and Liberty Senior High "Computers on Wheels", which overcame facility space problems, increased hands on time to students, increased content control by teachers and resulted in increased computer and software competency and learning by students. Verizon Business - Produced with the CA Department of Transportation, an automated Interactive Voice Response service updating highway conditions every minute, processing it into speech format and distributing the update to the calling public, thus ensuring up-to-the-minute highway information. For detailed information on each award visit: http://www.govtech.com/events/bestsolutions.php?id=128081 About GTC West's Conference on California's Future: The Conference is produced by e.Republic, Inc., the nation's leading publishing, research, event, and new media company focused on information technology for the state/local government and education markets. www.erepublic.com |
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