BearingPoint Inc. announced the appointment of Bob Hickes as director of homeland security for state and local government. He has over 30 years of experience in criminal justice and public safety at the state and local government levels, most recently as the Pennsylvania State Police deputy commissioner of staff. In that role, Hickes was responsible for overseeing and managing the Pennsylvania Justice Network, also known as JNET, an integrated criminal justice system that has served as a model for other government organizations around the country.
"We are pleased to bring someone with Bob's experience in state and local government to our team," said Ron Salluzzo, senior vice president, state and local government. "His tremendous accomplishments in law enforcement and criminal justice operations and information management will bring real value to our clients." BearingPoint is the systems integrator for the JNET system in Pennsylvania, a nationally recognized program. Hickes is based out of the company's Harrisburg, Pa. office.
Fast Search & Transfer announced that the city of
Chicago has deployed FAST Data Search on its
government portal site enabling residents and users to quickly search and retrieve highly relevant public information. Currently fully deployed on the Department of Procurement Services page, the city is expanding its use of FAST Data Search across all of the 46 departments on the portal.
The scalable enterprise search solution was deployed as part of Chicago's transparent government initiative, which is intended to increase public visibility into city operations, make city services more accessible and convenient, and enable Chicago residents to more easily search and retrieve information about their city.
"The City of Chicago's portal site provides the public with a wealth of information from all of the city's departments, including the Mayor's Office, the Department of Health and the Chicago Public Library," said Christopher C. O'Brien, chief information officer for the city. "While scalable enough to handle the large amounts of data offered by each of these departments, FAST Data Search has also proven to be flexible enough to link the wide variety of data sources with data we have stored in Oracle databases. We are very confident in FAST's capabilities and look forward to having it quickly deployed across the entire site."
In a landmark new deal involving an initial order of just over $5 million,
MicroStrategy Inc. announced that the U.S. Postal Service will deploy the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform enterprise-wide for reporting, analysis and information delivery. "The Postal Service is investing in business intelligence to improve the service we provide our customers as well as the efficiency of our operations," said Robert Otto, chief technology officer for the Postal Service. "This platform will eventually be used by up to 30,000 employees to enhance efficiencies in areas that include retail, financial and network operations, transportation logistics, and supply-chain management." The Postal Service purchased over $5 million of the company's software licenses, education and software support services in June 2003. Additionally, the Postal Service has acquired options to procure consulting services, education and software support services over the next five years.
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