Wouldn’t it be great if you could shorten your agency's budgeting processes from weeks to days? Good news! With a next generation budgeting solution it is possible! Join us on February 27 at 2pmEST for an exclusive demo webinar and witness firsthand how the right budgeting software can effectively and efficiently transform even the most complex budgeting, financial consolidation and reporting processes into a simple, easy-to-use framewor...

Since the launch of the 2012 Big Data Initiative, where the government invested over $250 million in Big Data throughout its federal agencies, we have seen the benefits and opportunities in this technology. Everywhere from border control, to health care records and scientific research, Big Data is playing a pivotal role in accomplishing critical missions and objectives. The amount of data the government faces is at its highest ever and less th...

For many organizations, adopting a more analytical and integrated budgeting and performance management software is a top priority in 2014. However, selecting the right system that fits an agency's exact needs is nearly impossible without putting time, effort and thought into the software selection process and, most importantly, establishing QUALITY requirements. Join us on Thursday, February 20 for a free webinar, "How to Define Budgeting and...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...

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...

Uncover the Who, What, When & Where of Your Data Appfluent data usage analytics software delivers deep-dive visibility into systems, giving enterprises the info needed to slash rising data warehouse costs and proactively manage Business Intelligence performance. Attend our webinar and you'll learn how to: Identify which users are running the most expensive queries Optimize relevant workloads Identify data & processes to offload to Hado...

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...