According to Gartner, 73% of the world’s enterprises are using or planning to adopt big data platforms and analytical tools to better understand their operations, outcomes, and opportunities. This megatrend is driven by the increasing awareness of public and private sector organizations that technology and expertise are essential to unlock the value of the data they use, regardless of format or source. Few enterprises benefit more from i...

How Cloud is Driving Tomorrow’s Digital Government -- Cloud computing made early waves in government for its penchant to save agencies money and realize efficiencies inherent in purchasing IT as a service, but cloud has now become integral to a next-generation digital government. The federal government is both a massive consumer and producer of myriad data sets, and cloud computing is rapidly becoming the de facto mechanism for how data...

Today’s organizations and federal agencies have to protect their sensitive data from their own – it’s a simple fact of IT life these days. Thorough cybersecurity plans naturally protect an agency's secret or sensitive information from outsiders, but it’s become all too obvious in recent years that federal cybersecurity efforts must also safeguard that vital data from trusted insiders. Through malicious action or neglige...

Records and Information Management in the Federal Government has reached a tipping point in how information is created, managed, and retired or ultimately destroyed. With pressures on agencies reaching new levels of volumes and content types for both physical and digital records, and government initiatives intersecting at critical deadlines, agencies need to think differently about the future of their information management programs. Re-defini...

Big data is changing the business of government. Many agencies have turned to a platform-based approach that bundles big data tools like analytics and information management software together. This innovative approach to managing an ever-growing deluge of disparate data, allows agencies to simplify their IT landscape and make the most of their limited budget dollars. Across government, technology is doing the analytic legwork in a simplified a...

The federal government occupies approximately 500,000 buildings worldwide, spending billions of dollars annually on operational costs alone. Yet some agencies are using technology in unique ways to curb energy consumption and realize efficiencies integral to the overall success of their missions. This panel would explore the government’s innovative efforts to maximize efficiencies through data analysis and data-driven technology. Join us...

How can Federal agencies better manage enterprise IT? By making better use of software tools and applications to drive efficient operations. Where can you learn how to do that? At The 2014 CA Technologies Government Summit. Plan to attend thought-provoking sessions, innovative product demos, and learn from colleagues who will address three drivers for agency software management—today and tomorrow: Expansion of DevOps to Support Agency Co...

The speed, size, variety, and complexity of today’s datasets are all increasing exponentially, creating major challenges for organizations and agencies that want to siphon out actionable intelligence and insight from the noise. Fortunately, new technologies now allow even enormous and unstructured datasets to be analyzed more quickly and effectively to benefit the mission, delivering better information for decision-making and fraud detec...

Effective analytics are the most powerful tool in business. In all facets of business, internal and external facing, accurately identifying key trends and data points allow you to allocate the right resources to the right business units saving time, money and manpower as well as providing critical insights on your target audiences. Register for the IBM Government Analytics On Demand Resource Center to watch videos of business analytics experts...

Securing government networks is growing ever more challenging as agencies face a growing variety of threats on one side and shrinking IT budgets on the other. Now more than ever, agencies need to turn to innovation to enable them to deal with threats of every type in a cost-effective way. They also find that even as they do so, the landscape of cybersecurity is changing around them. In the third installment of the Cybersecurity Series, we...