One of the most important services provided by Shoor & Company is
placing our clients' products, services and experts in some of the
most respected trade, industry and business publications around. Many
placements appear both in print and online, and provide the exposure
necessary to raise our clients above the otherwise noisy marketplace.
Shoor & Company has earned a reputation for achieving frequent and
impressive media placements on behalf of its clients. Here are some
of the more recent examples of successful placements that can be
viewed online.
October, 2004 - In this candid Executive Q&A with
securitystockwatch.com, Ernst Volgenau, founder,
CEO and chairman,
SRA International, Inc,,
provides an overview of the companys background and gives readers
insight into the strategy and core ethics which drive its success as
one of the top government IT contractors and
five-time
winner in the
Fortune Magazine list of Best Places to Work in America.
October 28, 2004 - After 26 years,
SRA International, Inc founder,
chairman and CEO Dr. Ernst Volgenau is stepping down
from his post as CEO, handing the reins to SRA President, Renny
DiPentima. Voglenau, widely respected throughout the industry will
continue as chairman and leaves a strong legacy. Read more about the
recently announced senior management changes in this
Washington Technology article by senior editor Nick Wakeman.
October 25, 2004 - SRA
International, Inc. was recently named Large Contractor of the
Year at the 2004 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards gala.
CEO and Chairman, Ernst Volgenau cites the company's
values and culture as the distinguishing characteristics contributing
to its ongoing success.
Washington Technology profiles SRA and the other award winners
in this exclusive feature.
October 18, 2004 - Having a network that runs smoothly
depends on having the right tools to detect where bottlenecks and
other hindrances occur. Check out the
CRN review of
Visualware's
MySpeed Server, including a
CRN Test Center Recommendation.
October 8, 2004 - This year marked a new trend in IT
spending in the healthcare arena. Paul Grabschied, vice president of
strategic planning at
InterSystems, discusses InterSystems' role in
healthcare IT
in a front-page feature in
Boston Business Journal..
October 5, 2004 -
Anteon continues to progress
in its quest to join the ranks of the federal IT industry’s tier 1
contractors with back-to-back\$100M
plus contract awards. Anteon recently won a five-year $150 million
contract from the Army to provide specialized information technology
services for two multinational computer networks that support forces
combating terrorism, The company was also awarded a five-year $120M
contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command Services to provide systems
acquisition, business and financial management, configuration
management, and lifetime support for joint, Navy, and international
combat systems to support the Program Executive Office (PEO) for
Integrated Warfare Systems. Read about these latest awards in
Washington Technology.
October 4, 2004 - Any marketing professional knows that the
key to success is finding out what your customer wants and then
exceeding those expectations. One way companies are receiving this
knowledge is through the use of e-mail surveys. See how
Inquisite Web survey technology
stacks up against other survey software in an
eWeek
comparative review.
September 2004 – A growing debate among company's CIOs is
whether to buy or build their own business intelligence system. Allen
Hunter, CIO of Molecular Pathology, weighs in on this debate in Application Development
Trends, telling how his laboratory has successfully developed
its own laboratory information system using
InterSystems' CACHE
post-relational database.
September 2004 – A rural hospital in Ashland Wisconsin is
making aggressive strides in technology in order to provide its
patients with a higher standard of quality of care. Todd Reynolds, CIO
of Memorial Medical Center (MMC), discusses the progress made with
wireless technology at MMC using
InterSystems' Web-based post-relational database, CACHE 5 in this
Health Data Management article.
September 2004 – Nothing says Summer more than a day at the
water park, especially if it’s built just for you! Jeffrey Siebert,
director of strategic marketing for Paramount's Kings Island theme
park, tells how its water park has gone through a major redesign for
guests this summer based on feedback received from using
Inquisite Web-based survey
software. Read more in this
The Motley
Fool feature.
August 30, 2004 – The landscape of the federal IT market is
changing as female executives make headway into the heavily
male-dominated government sector. Deborah Alderson, president of
Anteon International Corp.'s systems engineering group and Kathleen
Adams, senior vice president and director of the civil sector at
SRA, and twenty-seven year veteran of
the federal government, are two examples of the strides women are
making in climbing the corporate ladder in the federal technology
industry. They share their insights on the factors influencing the
transition of the workforce and networking opportunities for women in
the industry in this
Washington Technology exclusive.
August 9, 2004 – Proponents of federal procurement reform
are encouraged by the latest developments in the push to experiment
with share-in-savings contracts. In a share-in-savings scenario, a
contractor only gets paid when the project results in significant
savings transferring much of the project costs to the contractor. The
government recently awarded six share-in-savings Blanket Purchase
Agreements. Dan Chenok, vice president and director for policy and
management strategies at SRA, a BPA
recipient, comments on the new tools the government has provided to
assess which projects are a good fit for share-in-savings contracts in
this
Federal Computer Week exclusive.
August 2, 2004 – Bioinformatics, the marriage of information
technology and biotechnology, holds tremendous promise for enabling
widespread information sharing among the scientific community, which
could hasten the development of cures and preventative treatments of
many diseases. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) recently awarded SRA
a contract to develop a Web-based database system to collect, store,
and analyze data used by biomedical researchers to facilitate the
study of their biology for biodefense and public health. In this
Federal Computer Week feature article, Kathy Adams, senior
vice president and director of the civil sector at SRA, shares her
insights on this exciting technology and the unique blend of skills it
requires.
August 2004 – Readers of The Whir are filled in on
the new internet security software, CallerIP, just released by
Visualware. Working in
conjunction with a personal firewall, CallerIP adds more protection by
monitoring ports left open and susceptible to Trojan Horses. Read
more about it at
The Whir.
August 2004 – Elliot King, of Database Trends &
Applications, interviews Trevor Matz,
InterSystems’ managing
director, application integration on the recent announcement of
InterSystems' sponsorship of the Integration Consortium. Read more at
DBTA's 5 Minute Briefing.
July 5, 2004 – Federal procurement reform continues to define
the way that federal contractors do business with the federal
government. A new rule tells agencies how to buy services off federal
schedules. Jeffrey Westerhoff, senior vice president for government
wide acquisition contacts, SRA
International, welcomes the new rule, which he argues eliminates
ambiguity by providing specific instructions. Read more in this
Washington Technology feature.
July 2004 – Peter Johnson, CIO at Dartmouth Hitchcock
Medical Center, reviews
InterSystems’ CACHE post-relational database. Read more in this
DM
Review article.
June 28, 2004 – Choosing the right subcontractor to team
with on a federal contract bid can mean the difference between winning
and losing the contract. Ken Guest, senior vice president of business
development and strategic planning,
Anteon Corporation, discusses the company's strategy with Tania
Anderson in this
Federal Computer Week exclusive.
June 14, 2004 – Despite the fact that the Clinger-Cohen Act
mandated that federal agency CIOs report to the agency's top
officials, a recent
Federal Computer Week survey found that fewer than half of the
CIOs in the nations’ 24 largest agencies report to a senior executive.
In this insightful article, SRA
President Renny DiPentima, a former federal CIO and well respected
member of the federal IT community, shares his belief that the CIOs
have access to agency secretaries or undersectaries to ensure that the
IT perspective is considered in the business decision making process.
June 7, 2004 – Share-in-savings contracting may slowly be
gaining acceptance among federal agencies and the federal information
technology contractor community. In this unique contracting method, a
vendor helps fund a development effort and then shares in any savings
resulting from implementation of the solution.
SRA International President,
Renny DiPentima, offers his views on share-in-savings in this
Washington Technology feature story.
June 2, 2004 – SRA
International and Anteon Corp.
are key participants in a pilot program sponsored by the Department of
Defense to test the interoperability of government and private-sector
identification credentials. Read more about this innovative program in
this
Government Computer News feature.
June 2004 – Under the leadership of chief executive officer,
Joseph Kampf, Anteon Corp. has
grown into a leading provider of government information technology and
services and is playing a pivotal role in homeland defense. In this
special report,
Chief
Executive magazine correspondent Peter Galuszka examines the
critical role of Anteon and information technology in the defense
industry.
June 2004 – Allen Hunter, Molecular Pathology Lab Network (MPLN)
director of software development, fills in
Bio-IT
World readers on the important role of
InterSystems’ CACHE
post-relational database in building its laboratory information
management system.
May 31, 2004 – Thanks to the efforts of
SRA International, pension filings
can now be accomplished online through the My PAA self-service center
at the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. The SRA team performed a
broad range of system development services including business case and
strategy development, requirements and design, system programming,
testing and deployment of the innovative eGovernment solution. Read
more about it in this
Federal Computer Week case study.
May 17, 2004 – SRA
International has demonstrated a Midas touch in attracting former
high level federal executives to its senior management team. Renny
DiPentima, SRA president, joined the company in 1995 from the Social
Security Administration. Judi Hasson speaks with DiPentima and other
industry leaders who have transitioned from public to private sector
and vice versa about the lessons they have learned in this
Federal Computer Week exclusive.
May 15, 2004 –
InterSystems is spotlighted as an industry leader in the
integration and middleware sector when the Ensemble universal
integration platform is selected for the
SD Times
Top 100.
May 10, 2004 – Anteon
chief executive officer and president, Joseph M. Kampf has held
several positions throughout his illustrious career. In this
Federal Computer Week profile, Kampf discusses the highlights
of his career and the lessons he's learned from the people he's worked
with that have helped shape his leadership philosophy.
May 2004 – Inquisite
President, Meg Murphy, joins other experts in speaking out about Web
surveys in
American Executive.
