JOIN US FOR THIS COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR Transformative Technologies: Cloud, Big Data, Security, and Mobility in Government The rise of Cloud, Mobility, Big Data, and Security is shaking up IT today, and its impact is accelerating. By 2020, we’ll grapple with 30 billion devices, 40 trillion gigabytes of data, 10 million mobile apps for 8 billion people. Disruption could occur through unplanned changes in your IT environment brought about t...

Join us for the 24th Annual Government Financial Management Conference on August 11 through 13, 2014, at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. The three-day training event, sponsored by the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, will allow you to earn up to 21 continuing professional education (CPE) credits. From a selection of 50 educational sessions, you'll learn about the latest developments and improvements in federal financial...

Multi-tenant infrastructure is playing an increasing role in government’s drive to reduce operating costs through innovative delivery of services using information technology. This movement toward shared, multi-tenancy is the result of both new policies and emerging technologies such as: Data center consolidation is pressuring agencies to reduce their footprints, consolidate applications and data into denser, highly utilized data center...

This two-day course will prepare functional managers and analytic practitioners to finally make sense of data analytics and take control of the analytic process. “Transforming Data to Decisions” develops core skills for data analytics and lays the foundation for data-intensive analytic projects that deliver insight, clarity, confidence and actionable decision support. Attendees will learn the four major types of problems encountere...

Federal agencies face ever growing volume and diversity in their data. And they’re being asked to do more with the data they do have. Data must be more open, too, such as the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act 2014, signed into law on May 9, which requires federal agencies to publish their spending data in a standardized, machine-readable format that the public can access through USASpending.gov. Roughly 90% of the data in the w...

This year's Management of Change will focus on what needs to change to get us to what the next generation government can be, and how, as a motivated public-private partnership, we will get there. To develop actionable deliverables to change perception and rebuild the brand. In small interactive workshops led by your colleagues across government and industry, MOC will examine six different topics that will define the next generation of innovati...

The Freedom of Information Act, enacted in 1966, was the first law that gave Americans the right to access the records of federal agencies. FOIA establishes a legal right of access to government records and information on the basis of the principles of openness and accountability in government. In 1974, after the Watergate scandal the act was amended to force greater agency compliance. In 1991 the General Accounting Office reported over 1.9 m...

ABOUT THIS COURSE This two-day course will prepare functional managers and analytic practitioners to finally make sense of data analytics and take control of the analytic process. “Transforming Data to Decisions” develops core skills for data analytics and lays the foundation for data-intensive analytic projects that deliver insight, clarity, confidence and actionable decision support. Attendees will learn the four major types of p...

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JOIN US FOR THIS COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR The Administration’s big data initiative looks to harness huge quantities of data to accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineering, strengthen our national security and transform teaching and learning. These data stores are characterized by a mix of relational/structured data and non-structured files such as video, images, PDFs, and office documents. A number of new solutions are emerg...