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eCOMvergence - Focus on Business Issues in Airports
IT Budgets Integrated with Networking to Security Operations and airport user Support A number of reports indicate that IT budgets within the services industries will focus over 25% of IT spending on security and safety issues in coming months. For the transportation industries, it is likely to be much higher. Budgets prior to 9/11 focused on customer facing solutions and much less on operations. Today, these budgets share equally between marketing and on operational systems that monitor, control and support facilities, staff and customer safety. Control and exit/entry tracking to public infrastructures such as airports, seaports, bus and rail terminals are receiving substantial investment in the coming months. Large exit/entry projects in the United States will enable potential global standards. We have been working with technology companies and directly with large systems integrators as consultants in assessment and analysis of document security solutions that encrypt existing information such as photo's and new biometric solutions. We will analyze application areas such as border management, passport, visa, national ID and secure document applications. Airport Growth of Integrated WLAN Communications - upgrading voice networks to IP Deploying airport wide IP networks is a a priority in airport networks expansion. As an example, Vancouver International has spent an estimated $4 M and will reduce annual network costs to its airline tenants by over 30%. Other services such as WiFi and new Intranet applications will soon follow. While eCommerce gets all the press, the real value, according to the Gartner Group, lies in business to business and internal Intranet applications. Are the current airport PBX systems limiting end user support? The cost of upgrading existing PBX infrastructure at large and small airports has up to now, been a costly and time consuming project to undertake. However, that may all be changing. This technology upgrade is moving toward integrated software and hosted IP PBX solutions. Indeed, airport investment in wireless can also be integrated into a single airport communications solution that is affordable for regional as well as major hub airports. Evaluation of all infrastructure costs is critical. eCOMvergence can provide airport DSL, T1 and higher bandwidth quotes with local vendors to establish the best possible monthly costs for the facility. Airport Network Planning - Making Network Bandwidth Decisions Airports are resource constrained to plan, analyze and implement both technology and process improvement projects. The fact that there are 100's of websites with supporting data and information on how to plan and support Intranet/ Extranets is in fact, a major issue. How can airport managers assess literally hundreds of factors to come up with a plan? A major task includes the critical task to analyze the bandwidth of the communications network to support voice, data, internet and security applications. eCOMvergence provides: Focused planning steps specific for airports Significant reduction in planning time and planning costs Free assessment of network requirements and network cost reduction. Well defined business planning with costs, benefits clearly defined Out-sourced proposal development and management to relieve pressure on already busy personnel resources Technology and best practices database Is RFID Technology providing the ROI in the Transport and Logistics Industries? "Miniature Mobile" RFID applications are emerging technologies today. Early adopters are creating pilot projects to evaluate and develop commercial and financial models for the expected return on investment. Within the Logistics and supply chain, large corporations such as Walmart have created end to end applications with their suppliers, often with the suppliers sustaining the cost of the infrastructure and a sacrifice on some profit. The a major part of the supply chain, RFID standards still need to be adopted that enable technology companies and each part of the supply chain to build solutions that are repeatable and common from vendors to end users. Technology issues on frequency, interference, use and placement of antennas, where and how to monitor moving RFID tags on packages or people as in the case of airports, are still being worked out and in the short term, the return on investment has not warranted full scale implementations. For example, at Manchester Airport, UK, a second RFID trial is planned. This time, the trial will be based on a lower cost solution based on UHF based RFID tags. We will continue to monitor these results and build our technology consulting services to support the advances. Focus on Project Implementation The larger the implementation project, the more likely it is to fail at some success criteria measurement. Management will have a reduced interest in projects that extend beyond 9 months to complete. Indeed, we could say that all implementation projects fail. A project can fail in a number of measured results. These include fail to implement on time, failure to meet the cost objectives, failure to meet corporate standards, failure to achieve user acceptance. eCOMvergence provides objective outside analysis to assist our clients to assess affects of corporate culture, skills and resources and end user requirements. Our skilled project management resources to supplement our client's professional services staff with time critical support. Projects often slip on schedules due to the lack of resources at critical stages, not because of skilled staff, support from management or correct business processes. eCOMvergence has customized off the shelf planning and assessment tools to simplify business and technology planning. We have integrated data gathering, interviews, data collection and report development steps from years of knowledge and sound, proven planning steps that are used by teaching institutions such as MIT. eCOMvergence integrates the insight of two proven planning approaches to our project management. To review management and operational projects, we have created templates modeled on PMP Project Management Methodology. For technology planning projects, we created templates modeled on Zackman frameworks. These are well documented and repeatable processes that benefit our clients return on long term investment.
A number of reports indicate that IT budgets within the services industries will focus over 25% of IT spending on security and safety issues in coming months. For the transportation industries, it is likely to be much higher. Budgets prior to 9/11 focused on customer facing solutions and much less on operations. Today, these budgets share equally between marketing and on operational systems that monitor, control and support facilities, staff and customer safety. Control and exit/entry tracking to public infrastructures such as airports, seaports, bus and rail terminals are receiving substantial investment in the coming months. Large exit/entry projects in the United States will enable potential global standards. We have been working with technology companies and directly with large systems integrators as consultants in assessment and analysis of document security solutions that encrypt existing information such as photo's and new biometric solutions. We will analyze application areas such as border management, passport, visa, national ID and secure document applications.
Airport Growth of Integrated WLAN Communications - upgrading voice networks to IP
Deploying airport wide IP networks is a a priority in airport networks expansion. As an example, Vancouver International has spent an estimated $4 M and will reduce annual network costs to its airline tenants by over 30%. Other services such as WiFi and new Intranet applications will soon follow.
While eCommerce gets all the press, the real value, according to the Gartner Group, lies in business to business and internal Intranet applications.
Are the current airport PBX systems limiting end user support?
The cost of upgrading existing PBX infrastructure at large and small airports has up to now, been a costly and time consuming project to undertake. However, that may all be changing. This technology upgrade is moving toward integrated software and hosted IP PBX solutions. Indeed, airport investment in wireless can also be integrated into a single airport communications solution that is affordable for regional as well as major hub airports. Evaluation of all infrastructure costs is critical. eCOMvergence can provide airport DSL, T1 and higher bandwidth quotes with local vendors to establish the best possible monthly costs for the facility.
Airport Network Planning - Making Network Bandwidth Decisions
Airports are resource constrained to plan, analyze and implement both technology and process improvement projects. The fact that there are 100's of websites with supporting data and information on how to plan and support Intranet/ Extranets is in fact, a major issue. How can airport managers assess literally hundreds of factors to come up with a plan? A major task includes the critical task to analyze the bandwidth of the communications network to support voice, data, internet and security applications. eCOMvergence provides:
Focused planning steps specific for airports
Significant reduction in planning time and planning costs
Free assessment of network requirements and network cost reduction.
Well defined business planning with costs, benefits clearly defined
Out-sourced proposal development and management to relieve pressure on already busy personnel resources
Technology and best practices database
Is RFID Technology providing the ROI in the Transport and Logistics Industries?
"Miniature Mobile" RFID applications are emerging technologies today. Early adopters are creating pilot projects to evaluate and develop commercial and financial models for the expected return on investment.
Within the Logistics and supply chain, large corporations such as Walmart have created end to end applications with their suppliers, often with the suppliers sustaining the cost of the infrastructure and a sacrifice on some profit. The a major part of the supply chain, RFID standards still need to be adopted that enable technology companies and each part of the supply chain to build solutions that are repeatable and common from vendors to end users.
Technology issues on frequency, interference, use and placement of antennas, where and how to monitor moving RFID tags on packages or people as in the case of airports, are still being worked out and in the short term, the return on investment has not warranted full scale implementations.
For example, at Manchester Airport, UK, a second RFID trial is planned. This time, the trial will be based on a lower cost solution based on UHF based RFID tags. We will continue to monitor these results and build our technology consulting services to support the advances.
Focus on Project Implementation
The larger the implementation project, the more likely it is to fail at some success criteria measurement. Management will have a reduced interest in projects that extend beyond 9 months to complete. Indeed, we could say that all implementation projects fail. A project can fail in a number of measured results. These include fail to implement on time, failure to meet the cost objectives, failure to meet corporate standards, failure to achieve user acceptance.
eCOMvergence provides objective outside analysis to assist our clients to assess affects of corporate culture, skills and resources and end user requirements. Our skilled project management resources to supplement our client's professional services staff with time critical support.
Projects often slip on schedules due to the lack of resources at critical stages, not because of skilled staff, support from management or correct business processes. eCOMvergence has customized off the shelf planning and assessment tools to simplify business and technology planning. We have integrated data gathering, interviews, data collection and report development steps from years of knowledge and sound, proven planning steps that are used by teaching institutions such as MIT.
eCOMvergence integrates the insight of two proven planning approaches to our project management. To review management and operational projects, we have created templates modeled on PMP Project Management Methodology. For technology planning projects, we created templates modeled on Zackman frameworks. These are well documented and repeatable processes that benefit our clients return on long term investment.
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