Why Government Must Revolutionize End-to-End-Application Security
Learn how agencies can block attacks to applications and prevent breaches by investing in technology solutions and approaches that can address this critical problem.
The Importance of Visibility to the End User Experience
Agencies need to be able to gauge performance everywhere, at all times, across a complex web of legacy, mobile, cloud and shadow IT components. But agencies struggle with real-time end-to-end visibility into pain points and areas of underperformance. This means it can be difficult to quickly detect, diagnose and defeat problems before they impede productivity.Read… Read more »
Security Without Limits: Unisys Stealth for Microsoft Azure
Download this new report to learn how Unisys Stealth®, a Zero Trust software suite that uses identity-based micro-segmentation to transform your existing network — both on-premises and in the cloud, can transform your agency into a zero trust network.
Migrating Your Medicaid IT to Cloud
For tens of millions of Americans, Medicaid ensures that they can afford health care despite their limited income and resources.
Shielding Your IT Operations With a Software-Defined Secure Network
SDSN is an approach that incorporates, unifies and automates security throughout the network to defend against today’s sophisticated threat landscape.
Accelerating DevOps in the Public Sector
Today, every government organization is a technology organization, regardless of mission. Fortunately, recent innovations and developments in process, technology and IT management provide opportunities to help the government deliver its technological products more effectively. Particularly, the public sector has begun looking at DevOps (or DevSecOps), a project management and software delivery approach and mindset, toRead… Read more »
Modernizing Applications to Improve Government Services
GovLoop partnered with IBM for this report to explore the challenges and benefits agencies face as they modernize their applications.
Insider Threats: The Danger Within
Most federal employees think their agencies are safe from insider threats – but they’re wrong. A 2017 Meritalk survey found that 42 percent of federal cybersecurity professionals said that their agencies were the target of cyber incidents perpetrated by insiders. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) defines insider threats as any “current or formerRead… Read more »
Improve Your Software Supply Chain With Next-Generation Asset Management
The federal government spends billions of dollars annually on software that supports mission-critical activities, such as public health, social services and cybersecurity capabilities. But despite the increasing amounts of money agencies spend in this area, the current methods used to buy, track and maintain software purchases lack transparency. Those methods leave agencies exposed to securityRead… Read more »
Addressing IT Compliance and Complexity with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Learn how to address compliance issues while reducing the complexity of today’s IT infrastructure.
How the Cloud Powers Disaster Recovery for Government
In recent years, federal, state, and local governments have faced unprecedented costs for disaster response and recovery efforts. “The federal government obligated nearly $300 billion across numerous departments and agencies during fiscal years 2005 through 2014 for disaster assistance,” according to the Government Accountability Office. “Extreme disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Sandy caused billions ofRead… Read more »
Creating a Real-Time Government with GIS
By adapting real-time government data via GIS platforms and analyzing that information, governments have the ability know what’s happening as it happens, react and make smarter decisions faster, and get alerts when events of interest occur.
The Next Generation of Government’s IT Infrastructure
In this research brief, we’ll dive into the results of our survey to examine the current state of government IT and how next-generation HCI can empower agencies to better meet their missions.
Converging IT to Meet Your Mission Needs
Learn how your agency can create a more seamless IT infrastructure through convergence.
Enabling Faster Application Delivery in the Intelligence Community with DevOps
Download this report to learn how leveraging automation and application development through approaches like DevOps can help IC member agencies as they address the challenges and opportunities of innovating faster through digital transformations to meet mission need.
Taming FITARA With IT Asset Management
To learn more about how federal agencies can get a better handle on their IT inventory and spending, GovLoop partnered with Cherwell, a company specializing in IT management software solutions, and gained insights from Jeff Kelsey, Director of IT Asset Management Product Management at Cherwell.
Modernizing Identity Proofing in Government
Identity fraud is increasingly on the rise in both the private and public sector. Learn how government should navigate the challenges of identity proofing and what strategies to use.
Enabling Digital Transformation in Government
This research brief examines the data from our survey to define the obstacles agencies face in pursuit of digital innovation. It also details the tactics and tools organizations can leverage to move forward and meet mission goals.
Leveraging Information Sharing to Improve State & Local Public Safety
GovLoop and Software AG, a leader in digital transformation, have partnered to offer this industry perspective. In the following pages, we’ll take a look at how state and local agencies can leverage real-time information sharing to improve public safety.
Modernizing the Tracking of State & Local Employee Initiated Spend
To better understand these opportunities and challenges, GovLoop partnered with Concur, a leader in cloud-based spend management, to survey state and local agencies and better understand what prevents them from modernizing technology to achieve a consolidated view of employee initiated spending.
How State & Local Governments Can Harness Data to Become a Smart Community
GovLoop and Splunk, a leader in realtime data analytics and Operational Intelligence, have partnered to offer this industry perspective. In the following pages, we’ll take a look at what a smart community means, and how data, a secure infrastructure and network, and a holistic approach are critical to this vision.
Dark Data Management: The Next Frontier for Government Data
To better understand the cost of dark data in government and how agencies can overcome it, GovLoop partnered with DLT Solutions and Veritas, a leader in data management, for this research brief.
Paving the Path for Government Digital Transformation via the Cloud
Technology is changing rapidly, and the pace of innovation is accelerating along with it. To understand how government can achieve digital transformation via IT modernization and cloud technology, GovLoop partnered with Infor for this industry perspective.
Enterprise Key Management: The Key to Public Sector Data Security
In this industry perspective, created in partnership with HPE, Chip Charitat, Senior Solutions Architect at HPE Data Security, explains that encrypting data-at-rest is a minimum standard of care for protecting sensitive data, and that effective encryption requires secure enterprise key management practices with automated policy enforcement that can scale with the enterprise.
The Power of Technology in Federal Agencies
To meet the directive to become more productive with fewer resources, federal agencies must reconsider the way they capture content, manage processes and allocate staff time. ECM can help leaders meet these objectives and transform operations.
Investment in Custom Security Processing Units for Federal Security
Encryption is an essential tool that federal agencies must employ to protect their networks and both the transient and maintained data on said networks.
Mitigating the Impact of Data Loss & Outages in Government
GovLoop has teamed up with Oracle, a leading cloud application and platform services provider, to discuss how agencies can best protect, store, back up and recover their data.
Connected Transportation: A Digital Infrastructure for the Public Sector
Connected and digital transportation offers a way to improve the efficiency, safety and livability of communities in a time when government is dealing with highway fatalities, increasing congestion, trends like autonomous vehicles and rising citizen expectations.
The Time for Public Safety Digitization is Now
Check out this report to learn how digitization enables public safety organizations by personalizing user experience, connecting communities and streamlining critical processes.
Achieving Real-Time Situational Awareness
In this industry perspective, GovLoop partnered with OSIsoft to learn more about the PI System and how it’s helped their government partners deliver greater operational improvements and breakthroughs that ultimately lead to comprehensive enterprise transformation.
Creating Smart Installations With the Power of GIS
Government installations – large-scale and complex government facilities – need to focus on becoming smart and taking advantage of technology to make better decisions and be more efficient.
Powering the Public Sector’s Next-Generation Data Center with Flash Storage
In this industry perspective, GovLoop, NetApp, a leader in flash storage solutions, and its value-added reseller partner, ThunderCat Technology, will discuss ways in which federal agencies can optimize their data centers.
The Pivotal Role of Technology in Federal Healthcare
Beth Meyers, Chief Nurse Executive, and Joel Rydbeck, Director of Healthcare Technology and Strategy at Infor, sat down to discuss tactics for federal agencies to consider with GovLoop. They said the answer lies in applying an integrated suite of tools that makes the most of the existing data, processes and systems of individual healthcare organizations.
The Storage Dilemma: Flash, Hybrid or Disk?
For federal agencies, today’s data explosion comes with a huge and complicated mandate: Gather data, store it efficiently and, above all, protect it. But how? Between budgets in flux, lagging legacy IT systems and the widely discussed and ongoing IT brain drain, the odds often seem stacked against federal IT teams. But data waits for… Read more »
FITARA Implementation & How Government Communicates IT Costs
In September 2016, GovLoop and Apptio conducted a survey of 295 public-sector employees to gain insight into how federal agency IT managers are reporting out and communicating issues around FITARA improvements and IT investments.
Preparing for the Data Deluge in the Public Sector with Better Data Management
Government agencies are facing a tipping point, where the currently accepted business practices will no longer keep up. Agencies faced with defaulting on their organizations’ goals will need to adapt new data management procedures to protect their budgets and their human capital.
The Changing Perception & Adoption of Flash in the Public Sector
To understand more about the use, perception and adoption of flash storage in government, GovLoop partnered with NetApp, a leader in public-sector data storage, to survey 156 public-sector employees about their storage needs and challenges.
Modernization of Workforce Development to Deliver Greater Outcomes
To help the public sector understand how it can modernize its workforce management, Salesforce, a leading customer success cloud platform company, partnered with GovLoop for this industry perspective.
Empowering Agencies with High-Performance Computing
The use of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures at federal agencies is growing rapidly. To successfully adopt this technology, the public sector must understand the similarities and differences between HPC and traditional IT infrastructure.
Achieving Compliance & Transparency in the Public Sector
LexisNexis’ public-sector solutions can change the way a government organization’s workflow runs.
Telehealth: Connecting Health Care and the Public Sector
Learn about the changing health care landscape, what it means for government agencies and how to apply lessons learned to your own telehealth program implementation.
Stop Data Hoarding: Why You Need an Information Governance Strategy
Information governance provides agencies with the analytical tools needed to move beyond a “store everything” mentality to a strategic data management plan, helping you keep your data organized and usable.
Converged Infrastructure: Putting Public Sector IT Ahead of the Curve
A converged infrastructure (CI) solution allows network administrators to have more flexibility in how their system is maintained and can enable admins to be more proactive in solving day-today issues, allowing them more time for long-term tasks.
Leveraging Your Video Data with Open Source
GovLoop partnered with Red Hat, a global leader in open source technologies, to shed some light on open source and how it can solve many agencies’ problems with storage and data sharing.
Enabling the Workforce of the Future
Check out this new report to to explore what the workplace of the future is and how your agency can achieve it.
Bridging the Gap Between IT Operations and Security
In this industry perspective, GovLoop and Splunk look at how government organizations can bridge the gap between IT operations and security to better meet agency mission and serve citizens.
Realize the Value of Virtualization: Optimizing Government Data Centers
Federal agencies are adopting virtualization to meet demands for optimizing performance, but legacy data storage creates bottlenecks that can undermine the benefits promised by virtual applications.
Why Securing Your Printers Matters for Government
The printer should be included in your agency’s overall security policy and compliance.
Reducing Fraud, Waste and Abuse in the Public Sector using GIS
Technology solutions can help agencies better identify and reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the public sector. Increasingly, agencies are turning to Esri’s geospatial technology — maps, analysis and geoenrichment — to address blind spots that allow these improper activities to go unnoticed.
Flash Forward: The Next Generation Data Center for Public Sector Organizations
Flash storage can play a critical role for the public sector in making high performance storage I/O achievable and affordable.
Application Transformation: Accelerating the New Face of Government
It is especially difficult for public agencies to innovate and meet their unique missions as successfully and efficiently as possible. But application modernization is not an impossible feat.
Finding FITARA Success With Better Governance
Billions more could be saved, the report states, if agencies consolidated more federal data centers, better planned their cloud-based computing solutions, imposed stronger investment oversight of information technology operations and maintenance, and better managed their IT investment portfolios.
The Future of Public Sector Cloud Services: IT-as-a-Service
ITaaS means running IT more like a business and improving IT production for business consumption. It’s the meeting place of the IT and business departments at agencies.
Advanced Threat Protection in the Public Sector: Addressing 3 Critical Shortfalls
This Industry Perspective will assess these challenges and offer insights into how existing solutions and technologies can help agencies address advanced persistent threats effectively.
Cybersecurity Risk: The Driver for IT Modernization
Replacing outdated infrastructure with modern secure technology not only reduces security risks but also improves efficiency, productivity and service delivery in our digitized world.
Build and Support Better Applications with Application Intelligence
Federal agencies are increasingly reliant on software applications to meet their varied missions. But as their IT environments become more complex with the advent of cloud services, virtualization and mobile devices, the challenge of managing and optimizing application performance is likewise more complex. This challenge is aggravated by the fact that agencies typically employ monitoringRead… Read more »
How Proper Authentication Can Enable Government to Be Productive and Secure
Check out this new report to learn how proper authentications can help keep your systems secure and your employees productive.
The New Standard in Fighting Public-Sector Fraud: Real-Time Detection and Prevention
For this research brief, we will examine how public sector professionals perceive the challenges and needs that exist in the fraud arena and then explore approaches to address those.
How Multimodal IT Helps the Public Sector With Agility & Stability
Multimodal technologies can help your agency solve the paradox of achieving both stability and agility. And there are solutions available to help your agency manage the transition from legacy to newer, agile technologies.
Putting Your Health in Your Pocket – How Gov is Investing in Mobile Health
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 »
Software-Defined Networking: Keeping Pace with Network Complexity in the Public Sector
Today, public sector IT must quickly deploy and run new applications (both within and atop their networks) to deliver results—all without disrupting their mission. Enter software-defined networking.
Improving the Quality of Experience for Critical Apps
We’ve all been there: You’re in the middle of a virtual meeting, and all of a sudden the audio gets choppy or — even worse — you’re dropped from the meeting entirely. It usually takes a minute for you to regain your bearings, reconnect to the meeting and try to dive back into the discussion.Read… Read more »
Implementing a Truly Unified Communications Solution: A Step-by-Step Playbook
Using the Life Cycle concept, this playbook will lay out the specific, actionable steps decision-makers can take to identify and prioritize their communication needs and, by using new interoperability solutions, knit together a true unified communications network.
How PaaS & Containerization Can Improve Government IT
Open source platforms improve cloud technology, help to end vendor lock-in and maximize efficiency.
Accelerating ICITE With Open Source
Read about the creation of an intelligence community cloud that relies on open standards and open source software so agencies are free to rapidly share, integrate and innovate as needed.
The Changing Needs of Government Printing
Better understand the changing needs of government printing, how to overcome current challenges in the field and more with this new research brief.
Improving Agency Networking with SDN
Think of all the applications agencies use to communicate with the workforce, respond to citizen requests, and carry out daily operations. It’s critical that those applications are readily available and maintained without disrupting the mission. Government IT organizations must ensure their enterprise networks can support those applications and cater to evolving agency requirements. The challengeRead… Read more »
Investing in a Better Storage Environment: Best Practices for the Public Sector
The public sector is facing the challenge of the massive growth of unstructured data — especially where and how to best store it so that it’s accessible and usable and retains its value.
Better Income Estimation for the Public Sector
In this resource, we focus on income data and how it affects the public sector’s ability to administer means-tested programs; explain why income data is difficult to assess but critical to do properly; showcase solutions to verify demographic data and prevent fraud; and discuss other unique tools to help battle program errors and fraud.
Global Hyper-Convergence: The Only Way Forward
Although every information technology infrastructure is designed differently to meet different mission needs, each system shares common components. Networking, storage, and compute are the building blocks of any information system. But how these building blocks are managed to support mission-critical agency functions is changing rapidly. As your agency moves into the 21st century and operationsRead… Read more »
Gaining Visibility and Control
Continuing to deliver services with reduced resources, doing more with less, is a fact of life for government IT leaders. The federal government’s information technology spending budget was cut by $2.4 billion in 2015 while state and local governments also suffered decreases in IT and support service budgets. Contrast that to IT spending in theRead… Read more »
Finding Your Right Cloud Solution
As an information technology (IT) professional, you spend significant time purchasing, managing, upgrading and administering IT services. Often, these responsibilities are time-consuming and pull you away from fulfilling the most important mission-critical objectives at your agency. That’s why many IT departments have looked to the cloud to transform their operations. An Oracle white paper reportsRead… Read more »
Platform & Infrastructure as a Service: Creating New Efficiencies
It’s undeniable that cloud computing has changed the way that government does business. With the cloud, agencies are now able to gain new efficiencies, quickly deploy IT services, and transform their operations. Everything from HR, financial reporting, and government transparency have benefited from cloud deployments. Along with considerations on the proper deployment model like hybrid,Read… Read more »
Software as a Service: The Key to Modernizing Government
On all levels of government, public sector agencies are looking to the cloud to re-imagine their business processes and power new innovations. Through effective cloud deployment and management, organizations can reduce costs, deploy services with agility, and identify new ways to accomplish the complex missions of the public sector. With the cloud, organizations have gainedRead… Read more »
High-Resolution Imagery: Helping City Managers Better Serve Their Communities
A city manager’s job is continuous and complex. Whether it’s zoning, new construction, taxation or disaster planning, citizens depend on their city manager to understand their community, past and present, in great detail to prepare for future needs. In an environment of decreasing budgets and limited resources, geospatial technologies are an invaluable resource for betterRead… Read more »
Accelerating Government Transformation with Network Modernization
The movement of applications to the cloud and increasing cyber threats mean that government IT departments need to re-evaluate their network infrastructure. These trends are driving the need to scale bandwidth, increase network flexibility and increase network security. However, these initiatives require funding and unfortunately, government IT budgets are not able to keep up. PresidentRead… Read more »
Accelerating Your DevOps Journey in the Public Sector
In the public sector, programs can run slowly and inefficiently. The government’s information technology systems are growing more outmoded while the public’s expectations about technology, speed and delivery are rising. As the private sector pushes IT boundaries and experiments with improved services, the public sector faces challenges of regulations and constrained financial resources. Additionally, unlikeRead… Read more »
Building Healthy Communities: Making a Difference With GIS
It’s not news that the health of today’s population is at a precarious junction. We are experiencing an epidemic of unprecedented proportions in terms of poor nutrition and physical inactivity across the globe. In fact, the youth of today may, on average, live less healthy and possibly even shorter lives than their parents. Improving theRead… Read more »
Knowledge Transfer: Becoming an Informed Cloud Buyer
Conversations about cloud computing are a lot different today than they were four years ago. Back then, definitions for this new business model varied, and some people questioned if cloud solutions could ever be as secure as the government’s internal hosting environments. Additionally, agencies were coming to grips with the implications of infor- mation technology-as-a-serviceRead… Read more »
Simplicity, Scalability, Efficiency: The Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
The past decade has brought a new era to government — and more importantly, to government information technology. Organizations, in the face of fewer resources and more budget cuts, have looked to transform their IT departments into efficient, flexible enterprises that can respond faster to the needs of policymakers, organizations and constituents while reducing ITRead… Read more »
Storing the Data to Power Your Agency
Every day, government agencies grapple with new data challenges. Constrained resources and increased workloads require organizations to become more efficient in how they acquire, store, use, and analyze data. Transparency initiatives mandate agencies to provide access to data sets in open, machine-readable data formats. The public expects a new level of service in which dataRead… Read more »
Zero Trust: The Network Security Infrastructure of Tomorrow
In our interconnected and highly-globalized world, agencies must deploy emerging technology to improve service delivery and connect employees to data anywhere, anytime. But as trends like cloud, virtualization, telework and mobile continue to gain traction in government, cybersecurity cannot be an afterthought: it’s mission critical. And now, more than ever before, mitigating the impacts ofRead… Read more »
Convergence: The First Step to the Internet of Everything
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 »
How Open Source Cloud Technology Can Eliminate Silos & Centralize Workloads
Imagine a government in which IT systems connect citizens to services, data moves easily among agencies and public-sector employees, and information is truly open and accessible. A government with systems like these would better serve its citizens, be more efficient, and free agencies to focus more on agency mission. Information technology administrators are getting closeRead… Read more »
Telehealth: Save Lives, Cut Costs & Deliver Better Care
Doctors are using iPads to record information instead of scribbling notes on a paper pad. Nurses are browsing through electronic medical records instead of file drawers. Hospitals are adopting the cloud to store patient data so that it’s accessible to care providers anytime, anywhere. The entire field of health care has been completely transformed byRead… Read more »
Government Workforce in Focus: Closing the Data and Analytics Skills Gap
Standing between the federal government and improved delivery of services is the data skills gap. Federal managers worry that prospective employees entering the job market lack the analytical skills, statistical competencies and technical proficiency needed to understand the federal government’s large and complex datasets. The data skills gap comes at a time when federal governmentRead… Read more »
The Foundation for Data Innovation: The Enterprise Data Hub
Centrally managing data has long been a goal for IT managers. Now, with emerging technology and improvements to the way data can be stored and hosted, centrally managing data is finally a reality for organizations. As such, more and more agencies have been adopting an architecture – known as the enterprise data hub (EDH) –… Read more »
The Last Mile of Big Data: Delivering Meaningful Answers From Your Data
Public sector agencies at all levels are beginning to understand the enormous effect of data. With the click of a mouse, it is now possible to view the central role that data plays in government work, from the Census’s data visualization tools to data.gov, which houses over one hundred thousand unique government datasets for publicRead… Read more »
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Enabling a Cost-Effective and Flexible Workforce
As IT administrators and chief information officers, you face a particular challenge: facilitate the ability for your agency to work remotely, while reducing costs, protecting your data and assuring compliance. Your employees need flexibility in the way they work, as well as the ability to connect to resources anywhere, anytime. Thanks to advances in technology,Read… Read more »
Before, During and After an Attack: An Integrated Strategy for Cybersecurity
The world of cybersecurity is immense. The jargon surrounding the subject is nearly as varied. Here are a few examples: There’s malware, damage, espionage, regulation, education, viruses, advanced persistent threats, partners, reputation insider threats – and that’s just a small sample. Adding to this complexity is a common disconnect between technology experts within the organization,Read… Read more »
Making Smarter IT Investments: Customizing the Cloud
Today, cloud computing offers government the opportunity to re-imagine how services are delivered. But a word to the wise: not all cloud platforms are created equal. Cloud solutions depend on both solving the right organizational problems and selecting the right kind of cloud offering. By doing so, you can enable your agency to fundamentally changeRead… Read more »
Harnessing the Power of Big Data
Big data has revolutionized the way government agencies store, manage and collect data. Agencies can no longer rely on stable and structured data as a means to meet mission need. The way citizens engage with government has evolved, and the kinds of data processing services available have changed. Today, agencies must be able to quicklyRead… Read more »
How GIS Helped Secure Super Bowl XLVIII
This industry perspective tells the remarkable story of collaboration and technology that kept tourist and residents safe during the Super Bowl, including the technology solutions provided by Esri and PenBay that were deployed during Super Bowl XLVIII. We also feature interviews with: Deputy Commissioner Joel Golub, Chief Information Officer, FDNY Captain Steven Pollackov, FDNY GISRead… Read more »
GIS: A Platform for Enhancing Policy and Civic Engagement
Elected officials face the constant challenge of describing complex and intricate policies to constituents. In turn, constituents want to know answers to important questions, such as: how is a policy going to affect our community? How is legislation helping to bring economic development to our district? Has funding been used wisely? For the myriad of… Read more »
Are You Prepared for Your Next Crisis?
GovLoop, in partnership with RSA and Four Points, conducted a survey of 204 public sector professionals exploring how to create an effective Continuity of Operations (COOP) program. The findings from the survey are highlighted in our executive research brief. The research brief provides an overview of COOP in the public sector.
Investigating the Cloud for the Public Sector
This GovLoop and Oracle executive research brief provides you with the unique opportunity to learn how to reinvent your agency through cloud computing.
“Smart” Houses are here, is a “Smart” Government Next?
In GovLoop’s latest industry perspective, iFuture: The Internet of Everything Has Arrived in Government, we looked at how the IoE has transformed the way government operates.
Put Your Agency On The Map
In this Industry Perspective, we discuss how visualizing data using mapping technology delivers unique insights to your agency.
Do You Know What Your Building Data is Telling You?
With this industry perspective, you will begin your journey to explore how effective management of your building’s data creates new insights for your organization. This allows you to listen to what your building is telling you.
Are You Participating in Government’s Latest Cyber Defense Program?
As your agency continues to adopt new and innovative technologies, you must take the proper steps to secure information. Since information networks are becoming increasingly complex and connected, there are more opportunities for information to become compromised.
Smoother, Faster, Cleaner, Safer: How Big Data’s Driving the 21st Century
Desiring to look deeper into the impact of big data on transportation services, we reached out to Dante Ricci, the director of strategy and innovation at SAP Public Services. In GovLoop’s latest industry perspective, we share Ricci’s valuable insights and explore case studies that demonstrate the extent to which big data is changing transportation in… Read more »
Providing Secure Mobility for Federal Agencies
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.
Important Weapon in the Cyber War: SecureView MILS Workstation
Cyber threats are rising rapidly and government needs an alternative, secure solution to the present operating environment where multiple machines are required for multiple types of information. This Industry Perspective explains the robust, unparalleled advantages of SecureView, a low-cost, MILS (Multiple Independent Levels of Security) workstation with accredited cross-domain security developed in close collaboration between… Read more »
6 Benefits of the Best Kept Secret in IT: Thin Clients
In today’s fiscal climate, government agencies are making strategic IT investment decisions to spur efficiencies and innovation to meet growing agency demand. Specifically, agencies are deploying thin client solutions as part of their IT investments since they allow government workers to access information from anywhere on virtual desktops.
Integrating Multichannel Communication in Customer Service
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.
Building Safer Communities in the Digital Age
Analytics has transformed the way public safety organizations fight crime and keep our communities safe. Today, GovLoop and IBM have released a new report, Smarter Cities: Public Safety in the Digital Age, which explores how new analytical approaches has re-imagined the way the public sector protects communities. As governments are faced with shrinking budgets andRead… Read more »
Finding New Efficiencies through Big Data Analysis
Government is in the midst of a transformation. As government is collecting, managing, and storing increasing volumes of data, agencies are challenged to find actionable insights from the tsunami of data they are collecting. With the explosion of data from social media, online transactions, and internal systems, government has more opportunities than ever before to… Read more »
The Impact of the Consumerization of IT
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.
Creating a Modern Workplace Environment
In today’s digital landscape, leaders are looking to technology solutions to enable an increasingly mobile workforce and to create an environment that allows employees to work anywhere, anytime and on any device. Recently, I spoke with Michael Rau, Vice President and CTO, Borderless Network Architecture at Cisco. Michael Rau’s expert insights identifies that the unified… Read more »
Microsoft 8 – The Power of Windows To Go
For IT professionals, there is an opportunity for government IT to be instrumental in creating a modern, agile, and efficient government agency. However, IT professionals have great responsibility to support agency-wide success and meet federally mandated initiatives. With the launch of Windows 8, government agencies are even better positioned to be more agile, mobile andRead… Read more »
3 Keys to Big Data: Quick Wins, Clear Scope, Communicate
For centuries, government organizations have been collecting data from a variety of sources, and using the collected data to inform their decision-making. With the boom in non-traditional forms of data such as social media, video, digital photographs and email, government agencies are now challenged how to best collect, manage, and drive decisions from data. Today,Read… Read more »