The promise of big data is great, but the gap between promise and reality may be even greater. Getting value from big data begins with a business case that drives choices of the right data among many big data possibilities—social media data, machine-to-machine data, e-commerce data, geospatial data, and more. This TDWI Seminar in Washington, DC, offers a sequence of carefully selected courses to help you do just that. Join us to understa...

AFFIRM & GITEC Present InformationTechnology: Catalyst for Innovation, Accelerator for Change At the core of public sector innovation is solving problems for people, both citizens and government employees alike. It’s about delivering on your agency’s mission more effectively and more efficiently. It’s about having a positive impact on the lives of Americans. Public sector organizations are being charged to use information...

Managing Agile BI for the Enterprise You’re well aware of the benefits of agile—increasing productivity and flexibility, providing faster time to value, and supporting collaborative relationships between users and IT developers. One problem: it’s becoming increasingly complex to marry agile techniques with enterprise databases, and handle complex modeling in an agile environment. Whether you’ve tried agile before or are...

Big Data potentially is one of the most important technology trends in recent years in the government IT community. Agencies can take advantage of a booming market of commercial tools and techniques for extracting insights from their data to inform decision-making and improve operational efficiencies. Additionally, they can generate even greater insight by collaborating with the public on information innovation. The challenge, however, is that...

In today’s digital environment, citizens and employees have high expectations for government services. Whether they are checking employee benefits, accessing tax records, or conducting a transaction, they assume that information or services will be available whenever they need it and on whatever device they are using. But to make this possible, agencies need to understand both the tools and tactics for delivering and securing mobile enga...

The Southwest Cybersecurity Summit Building for the Future Purpose This event brings together top industry experts and government leaders to address the cyber problem in the context of what we can and should be doing to build resilience and protection in our enterprises and Government. Attendees will learn about changing Government policy, cyber research trends, and the latest in protection and resilience. It explores how the nation is dealing...

The collaboration platform of choice among government employees with increasing needs to work across department and across agencies to support essential government services is the cloud. Register today to join our FREE webcast and discover how you can create the best environment to support government collaboration! Attendees will hear best practices and lessons learned for building collaboration strategies that are both effective and efficient...

Organizations know they can save millions in IT budget dollars with Hadoop, but many do not know where to begin. Attend this complimentary webinar from Informatica & Appfluent to learn: best practices to your optimize data warehouse infrastructure how to pinpoint dormant data in your systems methods to Identify data and ETL processing for offload how to determine which data and processing are causing system bottlenecks

Many public sector professionals are familiar with the concept of Business Process Management (BPM), but what they may not know is how technology, management strategy, and current circumstances have combined to create renewed interest in BPM. Refresh your understanding of how smart processes can help meet your organizational objectives. This focused workshop will cover BPM essentials today and how to identify primary targets for process improv...

Public sector leaders are seeking to drive efficiency across their organizations—and those responsible for technology implementation and management are focused on maximizing available resources, from funding, to human capital, to IT infrastructures. Successful technologies are mission-driven, trusted, and integrated with agency policies, and they can evolve to incorporate innovation and best practices. With a focus on supporting effectiv...