Join us in March 2014 at SSON’s largest flagship event in North America, the 18th Annual North American Shared Services & Outsourcing Week, which hosts 800+ shared services and outsourcing practitioners, industry solution providers and leading analyst firms for 3 days of information-sharing, networking and benchmarking. Voted as the #1 conference they would attend in 2014 by over 60% of our US customers, this SS&O event features...

IQPC’s 11th HR Metrics Summit will assemble experts and executives from cross-industry HR departments who will discuss the methods of validating HR’s role within an organization and develop strategies for resolving company and industry wide challenges. Learn About: Using HR Metrics to Drive Activity & Business Functions Predictive Analytics Data Sets: What Matters to You and Why? What are the right Metrics to track? NEW for 201...

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...

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...

Federal Sales Boot Camp The Federal Government consistently misses its Small Business Goals... Yet, it's difficult for Small Businesses to break into Government Agencies. What’s up with that? The truth is that there is less than "full and open competition" as you might initially interpret it to mean. It is vital to understand the government contracting environment as it actually operates. This includes both the written and unwritten rul...

Theme: Award-Winning BIG DATA Programs Hear About BIG DATA at NASA, IBM, DHS, National Science Foundation, DARPA, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Defense and Presidential Initiative on BIG DATA Research and Development - ROLE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA IN THE BIG DATA WORLD - THE PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE ON BIG DATA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - NASA SPACE FLIGHT CENTER AND BIG DATA: THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AND DATA WAREHOUSING STORY - BIG D...

Amplify Your Knowledge! 5 Days. 4 Events. 20 Tracks. 200+ Sessions. The Ultimate IT and Developer Line-up. Live! 360 is back to turn your conference experience up to 11. Spanning 5 days at the Royal Pacific Resort in sunny Orlando, Live! 360 gives you the ultimate IT and Developer line-up, offering hundreds of sessions on the most relevant topics affecting your business today. Click the links to learn more! Visual Studio Live! • SharePoin...

Basis Technology’s 3rd Annual Open Source Search Conference brings together leading technologists, IT strategists, and program managers from both the government and commercial sector to share the benefits and challenges unique to open source search technology. This year’s conference is expanding to address not only the engaging technical topics, but also includes strategy with a broader discussion of technologies adjacent to search...

Federal Sales Boot Camp - For anyone not glued to their phone responding to Federal Quotes this September. The Federal Government consistently misses its Small Business Goals... Yet, it's difficult for Small Businesses to break into Government Agencies. What’s up with that? The truth is that there is less than "full and open competition" as you might initially interpret it to mean. It is vital to understand the government contracting en...

Across county, state, and federal governments, Data Analytics tools and technologies are used in nearly every agency and department. As such the acquisition and application of data analytics in government is an ever-growing and ongoing initiative. Currently, with high drive and desire to efficiently navigate the vast amounts of data, the market for Data Analytics in Big Data is rapidly expanding.