Many of us may know that some of the federal agencies and its leaders are facing many challenges in today’s economy. Innovation has been identified to be a key change agent when facing these obstacles. Can these agencies embrace innovative technology to better meet their missions? The answer is YES, we currently see many federalRead… Read more »
By: Andreas Muno In the last post, we discussed how Government/Public Sector enterprises are the laggards in the mobility race. This week we’ll take a further look at some of the challenges that come from lagging behind and some of the benefits that come from embracing mobility. Security Agencies often try to prevent data leakageRead… Read more »
By: Andreas Muno Over the next few weeks, this blog series will explore the reason why government should go mobile, and identify strategies that have been successful. But first let’s discuss the state of government mobility. So, what are government organizations already doing? In the US for example, many federal, state and local agencies alreadyRead… Read more »
Sprint has a reputation for being a leader in the industry when it comes to location-based services. For over a decade we have been helping innovative companies vastly improve the way they manage assets, track people, improve service levels and act as positive agents for societal change. The proof is in the expansive range ofRead… Read more »
Authored by Bob Hansmann of Blue Coatand originally published on Blue Printblog. Remember a time when the office shut down for the holiday season, really meant that the office was shut down? When desktops and workstations sat idle and server lights barely blinked with the lack of network activity? Those days seem like a longRead… Read more »
Let’s face it, we live in a world that is growing more accustom to having information instantly at their fingertips. This has caused an overwhelming push for government to embrace mobility…and fast. SAP Public Services is inviting the GovLoop community to join us in a casual online chat to help you with some of yourRead… Read more »
Last Thursday (9/29), GovLoop and SAP hosted a training webinar on “The Future of the Mobile Agency”. During the training we discussed mobile apps developed by NIH and Salt Lake City and learned about how SAP is supporting it’s government partners in “going mobile”. Below please find key resources related to the training session: 1.Read… Read more »
Government agencies not only experience the budget squeeze, they feel mobility demands becoming ever more sophisticated increasing pressure from two sides: Their ecosystem increasingly uses mobile devices and demands for respective accommodation by the government, and, mobile devices and the productivity-enhancing apps that run on them become broadly affordable, a development sometimes dubbed as theRead… Read more »
I attended a session on social bicycle lead by Ryan Rzepecki founder of SoBi. Bike sharing is the new hot topic in transportation. SoBi has created a more cost effective means of deploying bike share at a cost of $1100.00 per unit compared to $5000.00 per unit of a rack system deployment. Each bike hasRead… Read more »
iPhones, iPads, Droids, etc., Everyone wants to use their own personal devices to connect and collaborate, but is their data protected and more importantly how are you as an agency protecting Government data on these non-blackberry smartphones? Please share your thoughts and I can provide you a solution.