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-...

Data security threats continue to increase in number and sophistication. The growing use of collaborative technologies – from mobile devices and social media to virtualization and cloud computing – will continue to be one of the most significant factors impacting the security landscape. For these reasons, the federal government has increased efforts to minimize and prevent cyber security attacks, and will continue to place signific...

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 work or fail, the...

With the overwhelming growth of digital information, the scope of electronic records management has expanded exponentially and is an increasingly critical issue for government agencies, particularly as it relates to being able to provide secure storage, access, and retrieval of this information. And with NARA in charge of the effort -- the goal of having all permanent records stored electronically by 2019 -- the agency recently updated its gui...

There are plenty of changes underway in how the federal government operates and manages technology for improving service, including the Administration challenging government agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement. DGI's 12th Government Customer Service Conference -- which is free for government professionals -- will explore the policies, applications and technologies involved with improving customer and citizen servic...

Background The Government Customer Service Improvement Act and Executive Order 13571 are among the most recent in a long succession of laws and directives intended to assure quality where citizens with needs touch government. While there has never been more attention focused on the effectiveness of our services, there has also never been a more challenging environment for delivering them. Agencies and organizations struggling with this difficu...

Meet Your 2014 FISMA Requirements: Evolving Continuous Authorization Capabilities and Cybersecurity Calendar Digital Government Institute's popular FISMA Training Seminar will address how to successfully and effectively meet your 2014 FISMA requirements by understanding the FISMA Trends, Rising Needs and Solutions and creating your own management tools. Those who attended DGI FISMA courses in the past three years will find this course evolved...

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...

Analyzing large data sets -- or big data -- has become increasingly complex when needing to identify trends, combat crime, drive efficiency and quality, and reduce fraud and errors. Developing a Big Data plan can deliver many opportunities, but with these opportunities also come challenges, such as how to capture, store, manage, share, analyze, search and protect large amounts of data -- as well as having the right employee skills who can deri...

Federal agencies are being asked to eliminate silos of IT operation and implement consolidated and shared commodity IT functions while meeting cloud computing mandates and initiatives. Join this webcast to learn about an efficient, flexible and affordable cloud architecture comprised of best-of-breed solutions to include next-generation backup and storage products all within your agency’s existing infrastructure. Recognizing cloud comput...