WHAT'S COVERED The vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining, but are fully mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare. Of those who did initiate a modeling initiative, a recent data mining industry survey of predictive modeling practitioners reports that 51% of data mining projects either never left the ground, did not realize value or the ultimate results were not measurable. Despite its elus...

Operations, Maintenance, and Commissioning July 1, 2010 First Thursday Seminar #6 Operations, Maintenance, and Commissioning provides an overview of operations and maintenance (O&M) best practices with a focus on corrective, preventive, and predictive infrastructure requirements and commissioning for existing buildings. Date: July 1, 2010 Time: 1:30 ET Length: 90 minutes Instructor: Ray Pugh; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory FEMP Exp...

Agile BI: Making Business Intelligence Work for the Organization Attendees of this webcast learned how: Organizational and IT managers can work closely together to accelerate BI project success by addressing the primary challenges across accessibility, technology, and financial barriers Changing demands and requirements are associated with evolving data warehousing and analytics needs Agile techniques can be utilized to enable tighter collabor...

Learn How Governors’ Budget Forecasts and Earmarks Shape the Market; Find Winners and LosersJoin INPUT for an online presentation that provides detailed insight into potential spending initiatives to help state and local contractors. Through this webinar, service providers will gain critical information about the FY 2011 budgets, in order to make timely, well-informed business development decisions, and determine current and future proje...

The Government relies on the internet to distribute and provide access to information for citizens, staff, other agencies, contractors, etc. But the Internet’s shortcomings can critically affect day-to-day government tasks as well as national security. This webcast will cover how Akamai’s technologies are centered on mitigating the shortcomings of the internet to ensure optimal security and performance of websites, content delivery...

Smart, Secure, Productive TeleworkingRedefine Your Home Office with IronClad™ Imagine leaving the office at the end of the day and, instead of slinging a laptop bag over your shoulder, tucking a USB flash drive the size of a stick of gum in your pocket. When you get home, you plug the USB drive into your home computer and boot your entire desktop – operating system, apps, and files – with the confidence that your data is sec...

How to Meet the Top 20 Audit Controls in a Virtual Data Center As virtualization is expected to be in the forefront of upcoming certification and accreditation audits, it is important to understand how it impacts FISMA, DIACAP, and DCID compliance frameworks. Join us Wednesday, June 30th to stay ahead of the curve on the Compliant Virtual Data Center. The Catbird Federal Team will visit the Top 20 Audit Controls according to SANS and will also...

For state and local government organizations, the network has become a critical vehicle for delivering services to the community as well as to other government agencies. However, network managers are challenged to secure the network and deliver high quality of experience to all users in the face of increasing traffic, decreasing budgets and frequent cyber-attacks, as well as federal broadband initiatives. Please join Allot Communications for a...

Mocana, which secures the “Internet of Things,” protects the 20 billion non-PC devices that are increasingly connecting to networks across every sector of our economy including Federal and Medical. These devices already outnumber workstations on the Internet by about five to one. Each device represents a comparatively easy way to infiltrate the rest of the network as hacks, malware and viruses grow more numerous and sophisticated....

Improve Control of Your Project PortfolioHP Project and Portfolio Management (HP-PPM) is a centralized software tool and service offering that enables agencies to more effectively manage demand. This in turn will improve their ability to respond quickly to enterprise project requirements and legislative/regulatory mandates. A better view into the agencies’ IT project portfolio provides critical decision support information to administra...