Author Archive

Mike Heck

Managing mobility

iMobile Suite 3.3 makes it easy to share data with portable devices

  • By Mike Heck

Back to the future with the whiteboard

Mimio transforms standard dry-erase boards into powerful tools for digital meetings

  • By Mike Heck

Take note of mimio

Virtual Ink's updated electronic whiteboard can help agencies reduce travel and make meetings more fruitful

  • By Mike Heck

Norton keeps systems, staff humming

Norton SystemWorks 2001 helps users defend against computer problems and lets IT workers do their primary job

  • By Mike Heck

Turning the tables on raw data

QQQ Software's TPL Tables would be attractive to agency workers faced with transforming raw statistics into clear tables for reports

  • By Mike Heck

NetVault 6

The adage that information is your most valuable asset rings especially true for government agencies.

  • By Mike Heck

Software takes stress out of data backup

The adage that information is your most valuable asset rings especially true for federal agencies. Unfortunately, many agency data repositories go unprotected because of the difficulty of using high-end backup solutions from brand-name vendors such as Legato Systems Inc. and Veritas Software.

  • By Mike Heck

Supported platforms

Supported platforms

  • By Mike Heck

Review: A friendly project management package

By keeping things simple, Project Office 3.0 from Pacific Edge Software ensures that your agency staff actually use this project management software

  • By Mike Heck

Making workflow less work

Ework's focus on forms makes it a good fit for agencies

  • By Mike Heck
Workforce

OCR gets paper into the digital workflow

ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge Pro 9.0 Business Edition provides fast document conversion and output to Web formats

  • By Mike Heck
Featured eBooks

Making Web meetings a snap

Web conferencing offers many benefits to large and small agencies

  • By Mike Heck

WebFort cuts cost of security

Whether your agency operates a World Wide Web site, extranet or intranet, chances are you post, or want to post, potentially sensitive data.

  • By Mike Heck

Making Web meetings a snap

Web conferencing offers many benefits to large and small agencies: Employees spend less unproductive time out of the office, managers reduce their organizations' travel budgets and workers in remote locations can quickly collaborate, which compresses decisionmaking cycles.

  • By Mike Heck

Desktop OCR market serves up two strong contenders

After years of widespread competition, the desktop optical character recognition (OCR) market has come to be dominated by two products: Caere Corp.'s OmniPage and ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge. Most recently, the options available to government agencies and departments have been winnowed by Caere's a

  • By Mike Heck