Cloud solution provides clear benefits

After talking extensively with many solution vendors working on projects in states across the union, it is clear that the country is wasting an enormous amount of money tripping over the same integration APIs and system requirements for each implementation in all 50 states.

State governments are undergoing a system upgrade called the Unemployment Insurance Modernization, for which each state is spending between $25MM to $100MM+ to install one-off systems, sometimes leveraging maintained frameworks and source code. In the end, all the solutions are one-offs that will need to undergo individual and costly upgrades again at some point in the future.

Why not have one solution hosted on a cloud environment with 50 virtualized environments? You can have data centers distributed across the U.S. to provide redundancy in the event of disaster, etc.

This one solution could potential cost only $100MM to $200MM to set up once. Each new state setup with virtualized environment could probably be done at well under $100K, and would have configurable business rules to allow each state to implement custom functionality without modifying the source code. The solution would run the same maintained source code, which receives standard maintenance upgrades.

This type of solution with virtualized environments to allow individual "instances" is very doable. As a matter of fact using this separation of source code from business rules, I designed a system for 3M in 2003 that allowed all new product introductions globally to run through one framework and source code deployed to 47 divisions and 39 countries. Cloud computing adds an additional, high-speed improvement that can support vastly more transactions and users.

Cloud computing holds many promises and this kind of business case could save the U.S. in the ball park of $1 Billion.

Select-a-Box or Out-of-the-Box?

When you answer “what you do”, people are waiting for you identify yourself in one identifiable category. What if you can select several diverse categories?

• Technical Strategist
• Program/Project Manager
• Business Analyst
• Journalist

System overload – crashing, crashing!

The world has become a place of specialists where it takes a generalizing specialist to pull together the the big picture, the multifaceted cross-industry picture.

This is what KEMH LLC can provide: diverse experts that can see “The Big Picture” and can help your organization think “out of the box” to meet its goals.

See the KEMH LLC Capabilities Deck to see how diverse skills can be brought together to leverage world-class solutions.

Wireless Wonderland

So, the business case is that professionals on the road want to have access to present a PowerPoint presentation, but don't want to have to schlep a laptop to every remote location.

No problem! Since 2007, Impatica has provided the firmware and hardware connector that allows you to present a PowerPoint directly from your BlackBerry to the projector via Bluetooth, no laptop or back strain required.

But what else is coming? Based on buzz in the mobile and wireless community, check out the linked presentation below:

Click here to see a mobile roadmap of how presentations delivered from a BlackBerry mobile handset directly to a projector prompted the discussion of the end of the desktop PC.

When I'm out on the road pitching to organizations and need to project a PowerPoint, all I'll take with me these days is my BlackBerry Curve and my ShowMate.