Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are — especially cloud-based or SAAS environments — technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don’t w...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last four years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records...

As multiple, prior administrations came to understand, a good portion of the annual Federal IT budget is allocated to keeping legacy systems functioning, ultimately draining precious funds away from modernizing systems and capabilities. Over the years, costs to maintain these “end-of-life” systems continued to grow. The goal of the IT Modernization effort is to replace legacy IT systems and modernize so agencies can (1) more easily...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last four years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records...

Federal, State and Local Knowledge Management professionals have been working on turning information into knowledge since the 1990’s. The need for government to learn, innovate, adapt and change continues to grow in importance. Knowledge Management can be a key driver for positive change and should be used to solve agency problems and help agencies perform better. By implementing and enhancing KM strategies, government agencies can more...

Government agencies have their IT, business and program teams accessing and integrating data from a wide variety of sources to better support the agency’s mission. Substantial emphasis has been placed on data collaboration and integration efforts. But how do you know if your agency efforts have been successful? With agency data integrated, data quality issues like incomplete records, duplicates, and errors are more prevalent than ever. W...

The amount of data used by organizations has been exploding -- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last three years alone, and much of it is unstructured. It's not just the amount of data that presents challenges; the types of data being collected are changing and coming from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos posted online, transaction records...

Knowledge Management practices in the Federal Government have the potential to dramatically impact service-delivery and our nation's security. By enhancing KM strategies, government agencies can more effectively collect, organize, preserve, share and analyze data and institutional knowledge of the agency and its employees to benefit current and future projects. These benefits would result in improved communications, operations, decision making...

We are in the midst of another technological era. The "Digital Age" holds many parallels to the industrial revolution with multiple breakthroughs in manufacturing, inventions and workforce changes. As we sit on the cusp of remarkable innovations, this new "Digital Age" will be powered by data. Open Data programs are being used to drive new economic opportunities, re-imagine service delivery and empower citizens to act on authoritative data whi...

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...