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...

Making Big Data User-Centric Part II The modern data environment is not only about size; it is growing increasingly distributed and decentralized. Today, organizations are being inundated with data from an ever-expanding array of internal and external sources. Traditional databases and data warehouses are getting bigger and bigger alongside silos of new data types popping up across the enterprise. Volume, variety and complexity are the reality...

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...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

Eliminating the Pitfalls: Steps to Virtualization in Government Presented by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio 1500 AM, this complimentary one-hour video training webinar will explore how agencies are tackling the pitfalls inherent in virtualization to fulfill Administration initiatives like cloud adoption, data center consolidation, .greening of I.T., and telework. Virtualization is at the heart of these programs, and government...

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...

Uncover the Who, What, When & Where of Your Data Appfluent data usage analytics software delivers deep-dive visibility into systems, giving enterprises the info needed to slash rising data warehouse costs and proactively manage Business Intelligence performance. Attend our webinar and you'll learn how to: Identify which users are running the most expensive queries Optimize relevant workloads Identify data & processes to offload to Hado...

Cyber Resilience: Leveraging Real-Time Analytics and Continuous Monitoring The administration underscored the importance of combating sophisticated or advanced cyber intruders by establishing FISMA priorities, #1 of which is continuous monitoring. The proposed federal IT budget for 2014 devotes more than $13 billion to cybersecurity programs, with $300 million in new funding for continuous monitoring as mandated by OMB and FISMA reporting requ...

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...