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selection to San Antonio, including Here are a few examples of how that is Today, Dynatorch clients include the availability of fiber optic net- happening now in western Kentucky. Nautilus and Kohler. Located at the confluence of the Credit Bureau Systems is an works, affordable energy rates, and work and life balance for our Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, Paducah outbound call center that handles has long been recognized as a strate- collections and billing services for employees that the city offered.” “Microsoft’s announcement in gic location for river operations. 90 hospitals in 21 states. Credit 2007 generated the cluster effect we Using IT in ways that are unique to Bureau Systems is now developing were hoping for,” says Mario Her- their industry, Seamen’s Church an Internet-based revenue cycle nandez, President of the San Antonio Institute created the first simulator platform for physicians. This WebEconomic Development Foundation. for river training and has utilized based technology addresses the The San Antonio region is an their computer-based simulation challenges of managing the billing area of 1.7 million people with a system to teach thousands of inland and collection functions in physiwork force of more than 927,000. mariners. Instructors use this tool to cian offices and combines Zir Med’s Surveys indicate that nearly expertise in healthcare 6,000 IT professionals are Electronic Data Interface employed at just 13 large solutions with Credit non-IT businesses. Bureau Systems 56 years of San Antonio sees the experience in healthcare growing need for IT procollections. fessionals and has made a Since 1965, Computer strong commitment to Services, Inc. (CSI) has training a 21st century helped financial institutions workforce. The Alamo and corporate entities simCommunity Colleges sysplify their data processing tem developed the Inforneeds in compliance, secumation Technology and rity, fraud prevention, Security Academy in 2005 A plasma cutter from Dynatorch is used by Howe and Howe Technologies to eBusiness and payment build military vehicles. This Ripsaw, designed to be effective in saving human for junior and senior high life and removing human operators from hazardous environments, is the solutions. “Anticipation of world’s fastest dual-tracked vehicle. faster data transfer has school students to obtain hands-on training in computer improve a mariner’s navigational and always been on the front burner at hardware, networking, program- bridge-management skills in a risk- CSI,” says chairman John Williams. The CSI communications netming and the fundamentals of free environment. A one-of-a-kind company, Matrix work, one of the largest in the Midinformation security. The University of Texas at San Antonio cre- Engineering is using IT to provide west, is built around a high-speed, ated the Center for Infrastructure energy solutions. Its radical innova- telecommunications system that conAssurance and Security in 2001 as tions in petcoke technology allow nects nearly 24,000 on-line terminals a research and operational unit of companies to utilize a mobile test including personal computers, teller the university’s Information Assur- unit and sophisticated software to terminals, ATMs and remote item evaluate the feasibility and effective- processing systems. ance program. CSI is the anchor tenant in the ness in using the significantly IT Companies Love cheaper fuel petcoke as an alternative 42-acre Technology Center, a camPaducah, KY to the higher-priced natural gas or pus environment featuring 1.5 to In the global economy of “I need it fuel oil. Matrix Engineering is the 3.5 acre available lots along with now,” IT is a 24/7 critical component leader in the industry and the only massive planned green space. Bellof business. Paducah/McCracken company offering the mobile test South maintains a self-healing fiber County in Kentucky exhibits a diverse unit and a “try before you buy” loop to the park that provides uninutilization of IT from intricate call opportunity. terruptible service. Another pristine Walt Tyler of Dynatorch says site in Paducah/McCracken includes center operations to complex manufacturing and software development “Without IT, my machines don’t do the Information Age Park, a premier to river operations management. anything.” His fast growing opera- light industrial and business park, Often, customization is the key to tion develops and manufactures high fully served by utilities and a redunoptimizing the value of information. performance plasma CNC cutters. dant fiber loop. 46 A S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S PHOTO CREDIT: GREATER PADUCAH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

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