The promise of big data is great, but the gap between promise and reality may be even greater. Getting value from big data begins with a business case that drives choices of the right data among many big data possibilities—social media data, machine-to-machine data, e-commerce data, geospatial data, and more. This TDWI Seminar in Washington, DC, offers a sequence of carefully selected courses to help you do just that. Join us to understa...

AFFIRM & GITEC Present InformationTechnology: Catalyst for Innovation, Accelerator for Change At the core of public sector innovation is solving problems for people, both citizens and government employees alike. It’s about delivering on your agency’s mission more effectively and more efficiently. It’s about having a positive impact on the lives of Americans. Public sector organizations are being charged to use information...

Managing Agile BI for the Enterprise You’re well aware of the benefits of agile—increasing productivity and flexibility, providing faster time to value, and supporting collaborative relationships between users and IT developers. One problem: it’s becoming increasingly complex to marry agile techniques with enterprise databases, and handle complex modeling in an agile environment. Whether you’ve tried agile before or are...

In today’s digital environment, citizens and employees have high expectations for government services. Whether they are checking employee benefits, accessing tax records, or conducting a transaction, they assume that information or services will be available whenever they need it and on whatever device they are using. But to make this possible, agencies need to understand both the tools and tactics for delivering and securing mobile enga...

The collaboration platform of choice among government employees with increasing needs to work across department and across agencies to support essential government services is the cloud. Register today to join our FREE webcast and discover how you can create the best environment to support government collaboration! Attendees will hear best practices and lessons learned for building collaboration strategies that are both effective and efficient...

Organizations know they can save millions in IT budget dollars with Hadoop, but many do not know where to begin. Attend this complimentary webinar from Informatica & Appfluent to learn: best practices to your optimize data warehouse infrastructure how to pinpoint dormant data in your systems methods to Identify data and ETL processing for offload how to determine which data and processing are causing system bottlenecks

Many public sector professionals are familiar with the concept of Business Process Management (BPM), but what they may not know is how technology, management strategy, and current circumstances have combined to create renewed interest in BPM. Refresh your understanding of how smart processes can help meet your organizational objectives. This focused workshop will cover BPM essentials today and how to identify primary targets for process improv...

On-Demand Broadcast Now Available! Click here to view this FREE On-Demand FCW Executive Briefing on the Cloud — and you will hear a discussion about the benefits of the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative (FCCI), the obstacles of implementing the OMB vision for Federal Cloud programs, current trends and primary drivers of Cloud adoption in government, and more! This virtual FCW Executive Briefing will provide a snapshot of where agencies...

Mobile Business Reporting at Your Fingertips Cut the cord to both your laptop and desktop and use your mobile device to access your existing reporting systems. At a time when more people are using the capabilities of their smartphones and leveraging emerging tablet technologies, Information Builders has been recognized as an industry leader in supporting mobile platforms. Join us for a free workshop, Mobile Business Reporting at Your Fingertip...

IT decision makers in federal government face unprecedented opportunities for providing new and improved technologies and services, but also some very tough challenges. They must finds ways to support more open and participatory government, improve project performance, and drive IT transformation and reform. At the same time, increasingly complex threats to federal IT systems are forcing government IT professionals to seek new technologies an...