"If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible, " said Jimmy Ray, director of Harris County's Justice Information Management System (JIMS).

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Bhatia says that TigerText is a targeted solution that can accommodate the devices that doctors and other workers want to use, and is also far less expensive than large-scale Hospital Information Management System software or integrated tablet-software solutions from vendors like Cisco or Alcatel.

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What is an Information Dissemination Management System?

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Agencies must use a performance based management system that provides timely information regarding the progress of an information technology investment.

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As for Janrain, it has a full-blown user management system, which processes huge amounts of information from sources like Facebook (NASDQ:FB), Twitter, LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).

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Microsoft Dynamics empowers Australian Reef Pilots by putting in place a robust safety management system, giving its employees access to almost real-time information on their reef pilots and the ships in their charge.

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Complementing a central HR system implementation, products like SharePoint server can act a central hub for collaboration and information management, while Yammer can facilitate social networking and performance management, and Lync can enable VoIP, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and more.

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