Web host sees bright future with 100% solar-powered data center

(Source: Computerworld) Web hosting company Affordable Internet Services Online in California claims to be running the only data center in the U.S. powered entirely by solar energy.
Premier 100 Closeup: Systems in Concert

(Source: Computerworld) Trans World Entertainment's IT team had to integrate point-of-sale systems in 335 Musicland stores with systems that served TWE's 800 existing stores -- all in 30 days. Here's how they did it.
Honors Program: The J. Paul Getty Trust

(Source: Computerworld) For more than two decades, the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural and philanthropic organization devoted to the visual arts, has produced a suite of electronic resources to support its commitment to making art information accessible to all. These resources provide access to information on the visual arts and related disciplines by promoting standards and practices, and by developing tools and guidelines for creating, managing, preserving and delivering information in electronic form.
Honors Program: Social Security Administration

(Source: Computerworld) In 2001, the Social Security Administration made improving service to its disability claimants a priority as it faced a pending wave of disability claims from the aging of baby boomers. Its goal was to make the processing of disability claims paperless.
Honors Program: Germany's Labor Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit)

(Source: Computerworld) In order to support Germany's very high number of unemployed, the German state Labor Agency, the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA), established the "Virtual Labor Market." This scheme was launched to help better link unemployed workers with employers and to support the BA's staff in their efforts to help these unemployed workers to get back into the employment market.
Honors Program: Iowa State University

(Source: Computerworld) Deciphering the genome of corn, or maize, is a complex scientific challenge that is currently being addressed by the scientific community. The maize genome will be the foundation supporting decades of future research by scientists on higher yields, improving nutrition and biorenewable fuel.
Honors Program: Bulgarian National Electric Company

(Source: Computerworld) The Web portal project for the National Dispatching Center of the National Electric Co. is the first successful system of its kind for a utility company in Bulgaria. The Web portal provides information on the services and the activities of the Bulgarian Transmission System Operator, which manages the Bulgarian Energy System.
Honors Program: QlikTech International

(Source: Computerworld) The Computerworld Honors Program honors QlikTech International.
Best in Class 2007: U.S. Government Accountability Office

(Source: Computerworld) The GAO's Hurricane Central helps coordinate the efforts of 13 disaster teams. By Drew Robb
Best in Class 2007: State of Michigan

(Source: Computerworld) Michigan's IT department integrates data from multiple repositories into a single data warehouse, helping investigators identify $8.7 million in fraud last year.
Best in Class 2007: New York City Police Department

(Source: Computerworld) The New York City Police Department's online database, which houses more than 120 million criminal and arrest records, has been used by detectives to work on more than 3,500 cases thus far.
Best in Class 2007: Wells Fargo & Co.

(Source: Computerworld) Via a Web portal, Wells Fargo customers can make deposits from their desktops, saving time and money.
Best in Class 2007: Bonhams 1793

(Source: Computerworld) Auction house Bonhams 1793 bucks conventional wisdom, developing from scratch a comprehensive auction management system that combines the functions of ERP, CRM, auction catalog production and more.
Best in Class 2007: The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

(Source: Computerworld) The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center improves patient care with an electronic medical record system that brings a patient's clinical and research data to bedside PCs.
Best in Class 2007: VF Corp.

(Source: Computerworld) Many acquisitions later, apparel giant VF runs a best-of-breed supply chain that has reduced planning cycle times by 75% and increased customer service by 15%.
Best in Class 2007: Tata Consultancy Services

(Source: Computerworld) Collaboration took a giant leap forward with VoIP technology at Tata Consultancy Services, which used a set of collaboration tools plus VoIP to cut travel costs by 40% and telephony costs by 60%.
Best in Class 2007: U.S. Maritime Administration

(Source: Computerworld) The U.S. Maritime Administration uses its automated procurement system to make 25,000 purchases a year online, with no harm to trees
Best In Class 2007: Georgia Aquarium

(Source: Computerworld) Despite the crowds, Georgia Aquarium's visitors rarely wait in line to see exhibits, thanks to the aquarium's Web-based reservation and ticketing systems.
Case Study: Acxiom Corp.'s Homegrown Grid

(Source: Computerworld) A grid computing project at Acxiom speeds delivery of data such as customer prospect lists to its business clients.
Mission: Education -- Australian military standardizes training with Web tool

(Source: Computerworld) The Australian Defence Organisation's Defence Online Campus delivers courses to nearly 100,000 military and civilian personnel, earning it a 2005 Computerworld Honors award.

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