This “case study” is the latest in a series of articles aimed at helping public companies understand how other organizations are using technology to comply with new regulations and standards. These are not advertisements or marketing vehicles for the companies mentioned; Compliance Week’s editorial staff speaks with the public company that has deployed the technology, and the article is written without the input—and in many cases the knowledge—of the vendor.
GeoEye can discern the difference between a car and a sports utility vehicle from Earth orbit, but earlier this decade it couldn’t tell precisely how its own accounts payable department functioned. In early 2005, Hugh Klipp joined the company to change that.
