Operations Management Reducing Recidivism with Project Fresh Start and VEOCI November 5, 2015 by Julie Reynolds Each month, the City of New Haven receives over 100 parolees, probationers and others who have completed their sentence. Unfortunately, for 2014, the State of Connecticut had a 40% rate of recidivism among adult probationers and a 60% rate among juveniles. Read more »
Emergency Management State vs. Local Emergency Operations Technology Needs October 28, 2015 by Julie Reynolds Interacting closely with various municipal, county and State Emergency Operation teams over the years has revealed that significant differences exist in their technological needs. Read more »
Emergency Management El Niño, El Desastre: Part 3- Preparation October 14, 2015 by Julie Reynolds Our latest update (the yellow dot on the graph below) on El Niño from NOAA confirms earlier concerns; 2015-16 is going to be an extreme El Niño year and may equal or even exceed the devastation from the 1997-98 season. Read more »
Emergency Management El Niño, El Desastre: Part 2- UPDATED October 6, 2015 by Julie Reynolds El Niño 2015- a graph that says it all: be prepared. Read more »
Emergency Management El Niño, El Desastre: Part 1 September 22, 2015 by Julie Reynolds If you've spoken to a Californian lately or have been following the exceedingly weather-related news from the West Coast, you've heard about El Niño. El Niño has emergency managers along the West Coast worried. Read more »
Communication & Collaboration Katrina Response: A Failure to Communicate September 2, 2015 by Julie Reynolds At this time ten years ago, the United States was hit with one of the worst natural disasters in its history. In a previous blog, we posted a graph that showed Katrina to be in a league of its own among Hurricane damage. Read more »
Veoci News Updates Being a Team Player: Software System Integration August 6, 2015 by Julie Reynolds The new world of software is all about combining "services" provided by specialized systems to create a less expensive and more efficient solution. Interacting with other systems is the way we work today. Read more »
Veoci News Updates The Software Revolution – Winners & Losers July 28, 2015 by Julie Reynolds Since the discipline began with programming in Cobol and Fortran, software development has mostly followed the same path as other new product introductions. Read more »
Emergency Management Healthcare Is Your Hospital Ready for Hurricane Season? July 21, 2015 by Julie Reynolds While is it that time of the year again, the good news for 2015 is that the National Hurricane center predicts a below-average hurricane season with zero to two Category Three hurricanes. Read more »
Veoci News Updates Veoci’s Chat Tool Patented July 14, 2015 by Julie Reynolds We are pleased to announce that on July 7th, 2015, Grey Wall Software LLC was issued its first patent: US Patent No. 9,076,129 "Methods and Systems for Managing Group Chats among Team Members" Read more »