Management Training Targets Contractors - by Michael Hardy & David Hubler
Date: December 4, 2006
Client: Helios HR
Summary: Government contractors face special workforce challenges that arise from their close association and collaboration with federal agencies, according to several training firms that have moved into that niche. Helios HR, a human resources outsourcing and consulting firm, has joined forces with Workforce Learning, a management and leadership instructional company, to establish a management and leadership training program to help government contractors cope with their workforce challenges. |
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VoIP is Key Component in New Project Management App - by Ted Stevenson
Date: November 15, 2006
Client: CommuniClique
Summary: Tech-startup and Big X-consulting veteran Andy Powers heads up the team that today unveils a new web-based project collaboration application, CommuniClique.
According to CEO Powers, at its core, CommuniClique contains the task-tracking, recording, and reporting apparatus associated with traditional project management software—complete with dashboard style management-level rollup views—but with an added emphasis on communications tools, both real-time and asynchronous.
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CommuniClique Arrival Heralds VoIP, On-Demand Project Management - by Cindy Waxer
Date: November 15, 2006
Client: CommuniClique
Summary: Properly organizing and managing resources can ensure that a company completes projects on time and within budget. Hoping to pair this type of project management with VoIP, CommuniClique, a provider of on-demand collaboration utilizing VoIP and other leading communication tools, has announced the company’s formal launch. The new CommuniClique solution enables users to easily manage projects and teams through numerous Web environments including VoIP communication. |
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Helios HR Acquires Rival HR Advantage - by Neil Adler
Date: November 10, 2006
Client: Helios HR
Summary: Two human resource services firms in Northern Virginia are combining operations. Reston-based Helios HR, a provider of outsourced human resource and consulting services that has been in business since 2001, acquired Vienna-based HR Advantage for an undisclosed amount. HR Advantage, founded in 2003, provides customers with expert human resource, consulting, administration and recruiting support.
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Management Training Program Aims at Fed Contractors - by David Hubler
Date: November 1, 2006
Client: Helios HR
Summary: Helios HR, a human resources outsourcing and consulting firm, has joined forces with Workforce Learning, a management and leadership instructional company, to create a management and leadership training program designed to help government contractors cope with their workforce challenges.
“We launched this program about a week ago and generated a lot of interest from our client base,” Albarado said, adding that many of the clients are small to midsize government contractors. |
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K2M Climbs New Mountain - by Elizabeth Hofheinz
Date: October 2006
Client: K2M
Summary: The innovators at K2M have traversed the valley and conquered some tough cliffs. Now, K2M, Inc., known as the Surgeon Driven Design™ company, is announcing the launch of the MESA™ Spinal System at the 2006 North American Spine Society conference in Seattle. According to the company, this completely new pedicle screw technology transmits no torque to the spine during implant locking and has the lowest profile of any pedicle screw on the market. Already successfully used in 200 surgeries, the MESA Spinal System comes with specially designed instruments to provide surgeons with more versatility.
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K2M Launches MESA Spinal System
Date: October, 2006
Client: K2M
Summary: K2M has launched the MESA Spinal System, a revolutionary advance in stabilisation technology used in the treatment of spinal disorders. MESA will be participating in the US$850 million annual US spinal stabilisation market.
Dr John Kostuik, chairman and chief medical officer of K2M, stated, "I have been working with clinicians and spine patients for over 40 years, and MESA is the first true change in spinal instrumentation for fixation of the spine in the last decade. This system gives the surgeons new instruments and techniques for treating everything from standard surgery to the most complex spinal pathologies, including deformity. We are designing products that make a difference in patients' lives." |
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Crossflo Wins Through Focused Anticipation - by David Hubler
Date: September 11, 2006
Client: Crossflo Systems
Summary: Crossflo Systems says information-sharing software is a hot commodity in today’s security-minded environment. But the San Diego-based small business isn’t chasing federal procurement officials to make a sale. It prefers to let its “big boy” partners pave the way for its share of business.
Roger Hawkes, Crossflo’s vice president of federal solutions, said the company’s strategy is to focus on agencies in which major procurements originate, especially the Defense, Homeland Security and Justice departments, and to secure partnerships with the big companies that usually win those contracts.
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New COSO Guidelines Give Small Businesses Much Needed Compliance Help
Date: September 8, 2006
Client: BWise
Summary: With Luc Brandts, founder and CTO of BWise, a compliance and risk management software provider. BWise's new template-based product, EZ Control, is complementary to the new guidelines for small businesses and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance recently released by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). |
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Compliance Newsflashes: Trintech Teams Up With BWise to Deliver Transaction, Risk and Compliance Management - by WS&T Staff
Date: July 27, 2006
Client: BWise
Summary: BWise gives organizations the ability to increase corporate control by strengthening accountability; and financial, strategic and operational efficiencies for measurable business performance results.
Within the joint solution, Trintech's AssureNET GL, a general ledger reconciliation and certification solution, will provide the necessary information to BWise's consolidated Compliance Dashboard to execute the proper controls as defined for the general ledger and reconciliation process.
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One for N. Virginia: K2M Closes on $21.5M - by Neil Adler
Date: June 27, 2006
Client: K2M
Summary: Leesburg-based K2M, a developer of next-generation spine technologies, said Tuesday that it has closed a $21.5 million investment round led by Greenwich, Conn.-based Ferrer Freeman and New York-based Beta.
"We were very impressed, and frankly pleasantly surprised, by the mature business structure of K2M created by K2M's experienced management team," says Keith Longson, a partner with Ferrer Freeman, who will join K2M's board of directors. |
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Software Firm ServiceBench Gets More Venture Capital - by Ben Hammer
Date: June 20, 2006
Client: K2M
Summary: ServiceBench, which provides an online platform for customer service, closed a $7.3 million fourth round of venture capital. The Fairfax company offers Web-based applications for management of service calls, field service, parts and repairs, and warranties. "This capital infusion will accelerate the next phase of our growth into new markets and enable global expansion," says company CEO Michael Dering in a statement. |
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Warranty Claims Automation
Date: April 4, 2006
Client: ServiceBench
Summary: "So in 2001, we decided first of all to go with ServiceBench to help us get rid of all these issues," Patterson said. Whirlpool immediately implemented the ServiceBench warranty management module, which helped them to automate both claims processing and warranty registrations. Then in 2002, they added the electronic dispatch module to automate the process of making service appointments, and also to help them manage two different major recalls that were happening at the time. Then in 2003, Whirlpool added a module that allowed them to more closely monitor their independent service companies. |
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Budget & Tax News - by Steve Stanek
Date: April 1, 2006
Client: Coalition for Tax Fairness
Summary: There are two ironies common to most of those in Cena's position, and one irony that may be unique to him and his fellow former coworkers.
First, the IRS never would have known about the stock options had the taxpayers not voluntarily reported them. The companies that issued the stock options were not required to report them to the IRS.
Second, in many instances, if the incentive stock options had been traded to avoid losses, the individuals could have been prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for insider trading, according to Tim Carlson, senior counsel at Texas Instruments and president of the Coalition for Tax Fairness. |
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NASA Discovers an SOA for Earth Data - by Joab Jackson
Ageny’s early foray into Web services technology nets a fully functional service-oriented architecture
Date: February 6, 2006
Client: Blueprint Technologies
Summary: Service-oriented architecture wasn’t on the minds of NASA personnel in 2000 when they started updating a directory of Earth science data. In fact, most hadn’t even heard the abstract term. They only wanted to do a better job of addressing a widespread audience with diverse hardware requirements.
“We’re letting different organizations make their wares available. It is sort of like a marketplace for science,” said Michael Burnett, senior software architect for Blueprint Technologies Inc. of Fairfax, Va, which did architectural design work for ECHO. |
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LAPD Turns to Data Analysis to Fight Terrorism - by Heather Havenstein
Date: January 16, 2006
Client: MEMEX
Summary: The LAPD Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau will use the $1 million system to gather, track, analyze and distribute intelligence information, including tips and leads. It said it will also use the system to analyze data related to organized crime, gangs and money laundering.
The system is being built for the bureau by Memex Inc. and will include its data mining, analysis and visualization tools.
Those tools allow users who may not be sure where the data is housed to quickly search multiple databases simultaneously, said Mike Himley, general manager of Vienna, Va.-based Memex's western region. Memex, which specializes in analysis tools for law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is installing a similar system for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation. |
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Tool Time for Service-Oriented Architectures - by Alan Radding
Date: January 1, 2006
Client: Blueprint Technologies
Summary: Michael Burnett, principal architect at Blueprint Technologies, is building reusable services for the NASA-sponsored ECHO project using Microsoft's Visual Studio and tools from Eclipse. For the registry, the company opted for Systinet. "We use the registry to publish, find and bind," Burnett says. "Those are the fundamental interactions you want from the registry. I guess we could roll our own using an XML database, but there is value in adopting something UDDI-compliant." |
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