"Shovel-Ready IT Infrastructure"

We Americans are about to make a massive investment in physical infrastructure: roads, bridges, buildings, tracks, turbines and other forms of concrete, wood and metal. Good. But we would be making a huge mistake if we did not also invest aggressively in our “virtual” infrastructure—the information systems that are an increasingly vital part of our economy. Read Swan Island Networks’ suggestions.

Public Sector Solutions

Change. The new watchword of American politics is coming to government IT systems. Swan Island Network’s managed service TIES delivers smart new solutions to meet the change imperative.

• Managed Services: Low-cost, agile commercial-off-the-shelf information services are quickly replacing expensive proprietary systems.

• Agile Mashups: New Web 2.0-style geospatial systems are dynamically fusing together a variety of information sources—and providing flexible new views of changing conditions, in real-time.

• Communities of Trust: Requirements for cross-agency, cross-jurisdiction information sharing services are met with new community-based information access models.