The GSA’s Making Mobile Gov program offers three levels of assistance for developing a mobile strategy, first by providing market information such as how many people are using cell phones and mobile devices, and what other agencies are doing in mobile applications.
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GSA floats another cloud procurement
- By Ali Cheung · May 27th, 2011
Agency looking for a provider for enterprise IT management services
Wanted: Enterprise architects for data center consolidation
- By Ali Cheung · May 20th, 2011
EA community should play bigger role in agency data center consolidation activity, Treasury architect says.
DOD Explores Virtual Worlds For Military Training
- By Travis Wheeler · May 17th, 2011
The armed services aim to simulate real combat situations via virtual reality technology similar to Second Life and other computer games.
Forrester: Public Cloud Growth to Surge, Especially SaaS
- By Ali Cheung · May 5th, 2011
The three leading cloud categories — infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service — will help spur a sixfold increase in the cloud sector over the next decade, pushing revenues to $241 billion by 2020, according to a report from Forrester Research.
Business intelligence spending hit $10.5B in 2010
- By Ali Cheung · April 26th, 2011
Global spending on BI (business intelligence), analytics and performance management applications jumped 13.4 percent in 2010 to US$10.5 billion, according to figures released Wednesday by analyst firm Gartner. The results reflect the BI market’s continued strength throughout the world’s economic downturn, as customers looked to such software to find efficiencies and gain competitive advantage.
Researching the GSA Schedule Market
- By Travis Wheeler · April 22nd, 2011
When considering the cost and benefit of pursuing a GSA Schedule contract, the question always comes up as to what is the size of the market? Is the potential sales benefit worth the cost of pursuing and the maintaining the GSA Schedule contract?
Cloud computing elevating the role of IT
- By Ali Cheung · March 25th, 2011
An IDG Research study found that cloud computing is propelling IT into more of a central function. Half of those polled attribute this evolution in part to handling complex cloud-based services. “As the IT organization transitions from an owner and operator of IT infrastructure to a manager of more complex, multi-platform internal and external services, [chief information officers] are tasked with redefining the value of IT to the business,” said Adam Famularo of CA Technologies.
Army pursuing high-tech data sharing at the tactical edge
- By Ali Cheung · February 28th, 2011
Distributed common ground systems’ edge nodes could aid downrange info sharing
U.S. Launches Federal R&D Dashboard
- By Travis Wheeler · February 16th, 2011
The beta site allows people to see investments made by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation over the last 10 years and the results of those efforts.
