Do a significant number of your employees work in the field? Gone are the days when employees need to be tied to desks to get mission-critical work completed. The reason? Cloud-enabled, mobile computing has changed how agencies develop solutions for the field. Custom-built apps, running on tablets and smartphones, provide a cost-effective, secure way to reimagine how work gets done for field work. Join us online Thursday, May 28 from 2:00...

More than a third of government employees are in the field, yet many frontline government workers still use paper-based processes for the intake of information. Think of social workers processing paperwork for at-risk-children instead of being on the scene, or public health officials having to rush back to their offices to file flu outbreak notices. This lack of efficiency places a high administrative burden on caseworkers who may have to fill...

The nuts and bolts of how your agency’s IT infrastructure operate are failing. Many federal IT networks are struggling to keep up with ever-increasing performance demands. Increased mobile use, expanded telework, video, cyber risks and bandwidth-hungry apps are straining even the most robust agency infrastructures. IT leaders in many agencies are responding by shifting to a software-driven model of delivering advanced network functionali...

We are now living in the Digital Age. Just consider that by 2030, more than 500 billion people and things will be connected to the internet. However, in order to take advantage of these connected devices and people, and keep up with customer demands, both the public and private sectors need to invest in the digitization of business processes. Digitization in all levels of government can create new jobs, foster economic growth, provide opportun...

Technology has changed and will continue to change the way government reaches out and communicates with citizens. Gone are the days when faxing forms to a central government office was the norm. Now citizens want quick and reliable services at their fingertips, on any device they choose. And they want their government agency to send out alerts and notices in a similar fashion. For example, police departments regularly tweet out traffic jams, r...

In today’s digital age, federal agencies are increasingly reliant on software applications to meet their missions and deliver improved services to the citizens they serve. IT environments are more complex than ever due to cloud, mobile and virtualization, and that means managing and optimizing application performance can be challenging. Often agencies don’t have the proper visibility into their applications to see what’s work...

A few years ago deploying a new system meant months of preparation, installation and troubleshooting. Today, you can initiate a new IT system in a couple of minutes, through a quick internet search an an even quicker download from the cloud. This new model is called everything-as-a-service (XaaS) and it's rapidly changing the way organizations buy and utilize applications to fulfill their mission. Chris Dorobek and his panel of experts will ex...

Here is a staggering stat: 130 million Americans own a smartphone, including roughly 1 out of 2 adults. That's a technology that wasn't even around 5 years ago. So how can government leverage this technology to connect, engage and empower government employees and the general public? Already agencies have created more than 200 mobile apps, including EPA's AirNow, Department of State's Smart Traveler and IRS2Go, and agencies are exploring Bring...