No longer can government employees be expected to tackle all of their responsibilities from a desk chair. Now, everything from emails to data-heavy applications needs to be available from anywhere – at any time and on any device.
To discover how geographic information systems (GIS) technology, paired with a thoughtful mobile strategy, can transform state and local government services, GovLoop partnered with Esri, a leader in GIS, for this industry perspective.
Today, nine out of 10 Americans own a mobile phone. Of that group, more than 65 percent own a smartphone. And these days it seems like you can do everything on that smartphone. Everything from email to banking to dinner reservations can be done with the swipe of a finger. And now those smartphones are… Read more »
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, Aristotle said, long before the Digital Age was a possibility. And yet his observation applies today perhaps more than ever. The proliferation not only of technological devices, but also their capabilities and interconnection holds new levels of promise for improving the lives of people allRead… Read more »
Everywhere government looks, budgets are shrinking. Federal government’s IT spending will be cut by $2.4 billion in 2015. State and local governments will also suffer decreases in IT and support service budgets. Contrast that to IT spending in the private sector, which is predicted to increase to $3.8 trillion as technology companies continue to offerRead… Read more »
Federal IT professionals are faced with providing secure technology solutions in a quickly changing IT landscape. In this industry perspective, we explore the Dell Latitude 10 Enhanced Security (ES) tablet, powered by the dual core Intel® Atom™ processor Z2760.
With the growth of the web, social media and technologies, providing seamless, consistent, and responsive customer service requires multiple channels of engagement. The GovLoop and Oracle report elaborates on how government agencies can integrate multichannel communication to improve customer service.
The consumerization of IT is a trend that is not being taken lightly within government. With the speed at which technology changes, new devices, strategies and technologies have emerged in the workplace. Consider this, a computer in the early 1970s was a device that could fill an entire office.