When agencies use shared information systems, rather than operating separate facilities and applications, they can save up to ninety percent of the total cost of ownership. The more participants, the greater the savings. This being the case, one might imagine…
In a panel discussion at the 2012 International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, former San Jose Chief Rob Porter talked about a project: Our department made the decision that we were going to customize a report writing software program,…
From IBM’s Center for the Business of Government. InterAct and I are mentioned on pages 21 and 34.
RATHER THAN BEING A HAZY CONCEPT, THE CLOUD CAN BE AXIOMATICALLY DEFINED AND RIGOROUSLY ANALYZED THROUGH A NEW APPROACH CALLED CLOUDONOMICS via Cloud Computing – Cloudonomics: A Rigorous Approach to Cloud Benefit Quantification.
Incorporating use of a read-only historical archive reduces the risk that conversion will be a stumbling block in CAD and RMS projects. Conversions are a costly and error-prone aspect of acquiring new CAD and RMS systems. Both CAD and RMS…
The 2012 NASCIO Survey includes the table shown here (I added the bar chart for clarity). Those describing themselves as “highly invested” only grew by 1%, but 65% more reported having some applications in the cloud and considering others. Furthermore, those…
Everyone in the public safety software business knows The Tiers. Agencies are ranked by population served. Vendors are classified according to their customers’ tiers. Exact definitions of the tiers vary but the concept is the consistent. Big cities are usually Tier…
Cloud Benefits for Public Safety Cloud Bene fits for Public Safety Ironically, cloud adoption by public safety has lagged many industries for which the benefit are not nearly as great. The nature of public safety applications is such that the advantages…
Read Part 1 Software as a Service In the SaaS model, a vendor takes responsibility for not only infrastructure, but also for all of the processes required to manage an entire application solution (patches, upgrades, backups, database management, systems tuning, performance management, etc.).…
Feature Bloat Epidemic Threatens Public Safety Systems
Based on this informal Linkedin poll, 70% of us agree with the proposition that we could live with half the features in our applications, and that performance and reliability are more important qualities. This is not a surprising result.…