Arkansas's approach may prove one of the most popular business models for funding and operating government portals today, but it is not a sustainable option, says Robert Atkinson, director of the technology and new economy project at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization with the mission of advancing the government's agenda for the information economy. Governments that aren't willing to pay any money into electronic services can get up and running and put some applications online, ... Most jurisdictions in this country don't have the expertise to do this in-house. The risk of the outsourcing model is that they're getting the revenue from the users. Ultimately, I don't think the consumer is going to be paying for this. You don't pay now when you go to look at a deed.
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They would be managing the business efficiency of the outsourced relationship, which in many instances can involve multiple vendors and be more complex than running the show in-house.
We bring the imagery from our vehicles back in-house and then we review it for spatial accuracy, for clarity and to make sure that we've captured everything within a collection zone.
I don't see it having a big impact. The whole point of mutual funds is to avoid the Wall Street bias and most shops have their own in-house research. Big firms, like a Fidelity, have 200 professionals across the world so they never cared about the Street research to begin with.
We believe this action is necessary to protect the intellectual capital we have worked hard to develop in-house since 1996. Although we have been focused on innovation and building value for our customers, we cannot ignore companies that we believe are infringing our intellectual property.
If our competitors want to do the same things, they really have to become payment system operators. They'd have to integrate it in-house and then get approval from the Fed to do settlement, and that's a big step.
Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing.
The Total Cost of Ownership for in-house applications has gotten higher over the last three-to-five years. Hosted applications are definitely a money-saving proposition because companies can start out slowly and grow their business around it.
I think the instruction is Rome's answer to all the different pressures brought to bear on it, ... It's presented in a somewhat ambiguous fashion with in-house vocabulary that allows for a range of interpretation to be taken from it. A lot will depend on where the bishop falls on the issue beforehand.
Clear Channel Television Interactive (CCTVI) required an in-house solution we could host ourselves that performed well in a Microsoft environment, ... While other competitive solutions only supported limited operating environments, AdManager proved to be a scalable solution with a flexible architecture designed to meet all of our business needs.
We had no idea we would be considering Cisco we had no idea they were even in the SAN business. It took us three months to train them on SAN I prefer not to bring in a barrage of consultants. We have a lot riding on the SAN and wanted the expertise in-house.
If the unions and their members are able to commit to extensive across-the-board labor reform, there may be an opportunity to retain some wide body airframe maintenance capacity in-house.
The situation, along with his punishment, will be handled in-house, and some elements have already been handled. In the meantime, we'll let the legal process run its course before taking further action.
There were a number of questions along those lines, and I don't know if all the answers were ready. I wanted to keep the baseball in-house.