The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

Big data can mean big insight, but to date has required lots of heavy lifting through extensive ETL processes and considerable pain to set up. How can you tap into big data to unlock new sources of insight for your business quickly and easily? View this informative web seminar to learn how you can leverage Birst agile business analytics to access, transform and visualize information stored in Hadoop to drive your organization’s big data...

Cyber Resilience: Leveraging Real-Time Analytics and Continuous Monitoring The administration underscored the importance of combating sophisticated or advanced cyber intruders by establishing FISMA priorities, #1 of which is continuous monitoring. The proposed federal IT budget for 2014 devotes more than $13 billion to cybersecurity programs, with $300 million in new funding for continuous monitoring as mandated by OMB and FISMA reporting requ...

Are you up to date on today’s best practices in budgeting and planning for government contracting? Just having a project management plan isn’t enough to succeed. Attend the free Deltek webinar Best Practices in Budgeting & Planning on December 11 at 11 a.m. ET and learn how solid budgeting and planning create efficiencies and aid decision making at the project level. Highlights include: Budgets that align with the project manag...

Join Christine Wade of CaaSus, LLC and Gunjan Talati of Reed Smith LLP for the first installment of a 3-Part Series on Subcontracting, Teaming and Flow Downs. Back from popular demand, this course will be presented online in 3 parts on December 3rd, 10th, and 17th. Courses may be taken in isolation, or as a group. The webinars will present key purchasing/procurement instruction relative to: Subcontract Management & AdministrationTeaming Ag...

As volumes of big data grow rapidly, government agencies are looking to leverage federal big data to support their missions and improve overall program outcomes and performance. Government, however, still face issues in adopting a federal big data strategy: bandwidth, storage capacity, retrieval, security, computational power, and trained personnel. The greatest challenge for government organizations in managing big data lies in the ability to...

Advances in technology offer CIOs an unprecedented opportunity to help their agencies do more with less. How can you boost productivity, enhance service, and drive innovation by strategically combining post-digital forces? We'll discuss Impacts of five key forces – mobile, social, analytics, cloud, and cyber – and how they can help agencies reinvent how work gets done. Delivering extraordinary value via modest investments on top of...

Due to the federal government shut down of non-essential operations, the PHI Virtual Event for 2013 will be postponed. We apologize for this inconvenience. More information regarding this event is forthcoming. Declines in budgets have negatively affected the public health community making it hard to participate in traditional meetings, trainings and events. The concept of developing immersive Virtual Instances (VIs) of in-person gatherings, ma...

This is an on-demand webinar. Watch today and for 90 days after the webinar goes live. Federal Data Center consolidation remains an important objective, but not the only challenge facing Federal IT professionals. Targets for reducing cost, reducing environmental impact, increasing efficiency, and enhancing business agility have also been set. Attend this on-demand webinar to better understand trends in IT, and to explore both traditional and e...

Government To Go - Best Practices for Strategic Mobility: August 13th Mobility is flourishing — government agencies and departments are increasingly rolling out citizen-facing applications, projects to increase field worker productivity and mobile friendly websites. But creating a mobile strategy may seem especially daunting because so much about mobile is new and constantly changing. This session will discuss how mobile is being used in...