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  • USA: Government Initiatives Eliminate Commodity Revenues, VARs Say

    "Focus on services, not product" is the current mantra aimed at VARs who attemp to sell into government. But easier said than done, according to several attendees of a panel discussion at the inaugural Xchange Government Integrator event in Washington, D.C., yesterday.

    Following in the footsteps of those targeting the commercial sector, government VARs can no longer get away with peddling products. Instead, they need to offer federal agencies full solutions--from integration to customization to management.

  • USA: HHS awards contracts to test e-health records exchange

    Nine consortia win $22.5 million in contracts to implement program

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Friday announced that contracts worth $22.5 million have been awarded to nine Health Information Exchanges to start trial implementations of a national network for exchanging electronic health information.

    HHS last year disclosed plans to award the contracts, which it said would ensure that its Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) has a secure foundation.

  • USA: How To Sell IT To Capitol Hill

    Sure, President George Bush has stated collaboration within government to be a top priority. And, yes, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) launched an initiative a year ago to encourage the adoption of cross-agency services. The tool of choice to make those things happen? Technology. But for true consolidation of IT processes to happen at the federal level, a select number of VARs will have to work with the government to win over those on the Hill with low-risk, cost-effective solutions, said a panel of government executives at Fose this morning.

  • USA: How your open source company can begin government contracting

    It used to be that governmental agencies enamored of the status quo -- and that's pretty much the whole government -- were not interested in open source solutions to their IT problems. Like the rest of the IT industry, though, government is now looking to open source to make its resources go further. Unlike the rest of the industry, and atypical for government, federal and state agencies are embracing open source ideas and ideals.

  • USA: ICT Group Wins Government Contact-Center Contract

    ICT Group Latest News about ICT Group reports that it has been named one of the five vendors awarded a U.S. General Services Administration contract to provide contact-center services and applications to government agencies and departments.

    The contract is for one year with four one-year options and has a funding capacity of US$150 million over the next five years.

  • USA: Macromedia Woos E-Government

    Hoping to take advantage of a little generosity out of Washington, Macromedia Monday formed a new group that specializes in government-specific support for U.S. government Web sites.

    Starting November 3, the San Francisco-based company said it will offer federal, state, and local agencies three separate tracks to improve their Web sites and user experiences.

  • USA: NIC Wins Arizona Web Portal Management Contract

    The state of Arizona recently finalized a three-year agreement with eGovernment firm NIC (Nasdaq: EGOV) to operate the state’s official Web site, Arizona @ Your Service. The contract runs through 2010 with renewal options that extend through June 2013. Arizona issued its competitive bid in February 2007 and chose NIC from a competitive field.

    “The state of Arizona is excited to build upon our strong tradition of online service delivery and government efficiency through the new Web portal contract,” said Chris Cummiskey, the state of Arizona’s chief information officer and director of the Government Information Technology Agency. “NIC has a proven track record in eGovernment and we are looking forward to our new partnership.”

  • USA: NIC Wins Colorado Web Portal Management Contract

    Colorado Signs Multi-Year Self-Funding Portal Agreement

    The state of Colorado has chosen a subsidiary of NIC (Nasdaq:EGOV) to build and manage its enterprise eGovernment Web portal for up to nine years.

    Colorado has signed a five-year agreement for eGovernment services that has renewal options through 2014. NIC's Colorado Interactive subsidiary will deploy the self-funded model to provide the infrastructure and staff expertise required to develop, maintain, and host the eGovernment portal. Colorado will retain ownership of the content, data, and statutory fees.

  • USA: Performance-based Contracting is a Team Effort

    More than ten years after the federal government officially pledged performance-based contracting as an efficient means of procurement, agencies and the private sector alike still wrestle with the concept. For performance-based contracting to actually succeed, both sides need to improve communication and let go of the old way of doing things, said a panel of government officials this morning at a breakfast discussion sponsored by the Bethesda Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).

  • USA: Selling on ROI: Hot Solutions For Local Government

    If the system handling car registrations talks to the system tracking outstanding parking tickets, your town stands a much better chance of collecting fines and enforcing parking regulations than if the two systems operate in separate "silos" as unconnected databases.

    Of course it would seem integrating the vehicle registration system with parking ticket enforcement makes obvious sense. Your town IT department can reliably project cash flows and enabling a simple return on investment (ROI) analysis will show whether the IT upgrade is worth the expenditure.

  • USA: Special Report on Contractors: Flat budgets ahead

    Contractors adjust to expectations of slower growth

    The good news for government information technology contractors is that the annual $60 billion federal budget isn't likely to decline any time soon. The bad news is that the budget isn't likely to increase much, either, according to government and industry experts.

  • USA: State & Local E-Government Spending to Double by 2008

    The state and local market for e-government products and services will reverse its dramatically declining growth trend in 2005 and more than double 2004 spending levels by 2008, according to a report released today by INPUT, the leading provider of government market intelligence. Fueled by integration and consolidation of government-to-government back-end systems, this growth will be preceded by two years of measured compound annual growth rate of 8 percent, accelerating rapidly in 2006 and 2007.

  • USA: State and local e-gov spending to double by ’08

    The state and local market for e-government products and services will soon reverse its dramatic decline, according to a report released today by Input Inc., a Reston, Va., government information technology research firm.

    Between 2005 and 2008, e-government spending will more than double over 2004 spending levels, according to the report. The growth will be driven by spending on integration and consolidation of government back-end systems.

  • USA: State and local IT spending on the rise

    After a dry spell, governments look to technology

    When California consolidated several agencies into a central information technology department this summer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it was an important step toward bringing the state's technology structure into the 21st century.

    "Californians deserve to have a government that serves them effectively and efficiently, and this reorganization is an important part of accomplishing that goal," he said. "I look forward to working with the legislature to improve and modernize state government so that it better serves Californians."

  • USA: Tech giants line up for e-health dollars

    With billions in stimulus dollars available to help doctors and hospitals digitize their health records, it stands to reason that tech companies want to make spending that money as easy as possible.

    Several of the players--Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft, and Nuance Communications--have teamed up in an alliance aimed at educating doctors on the many tools available to help set up electronic health records.

  • USA: The Art of the Government Partner Program

    What to expect from government partner programs...and what's expected of you in return

    Like any partnership, trust between the two parties involved is key. The government sector is no different, except, of course, for the nuances that make the government market the complex machine it is. And, of course, GovernmentVAR's first annual GovernmentVAR award winners exemplify what it means to be a good partner and offer up advice on how they got to where they are today.

  • USA: Top Technologies To Sell To State Governments

    State CIOs will spend their precious IT budgets on systems that cut through bureaucracy

    In states such as Michigan and Kentucky, CIOs are dealing with an endless sea of legacy systems. They need more effective tools to bring those machines up to 21st-century standards--or they need to rip them out and replace them.

    Iowa is looking to bring broadband to its citizens, no matter how far-flung they are. And in Delaware, the top decision-maker for IT purchases wants to make government disappear. That is, he wants government structure to be invisible to customers. But he needs better tech tools from VARs to do it.

  • USA:Integrated Systems Aid Better Efficiency and Sharing of Critical Information

    The disparate legacy systems used in various federal agencies have been designed independently of each other, and this has made it extremely difficult to integrate them. The government is looking for a simple network system that enables efficient flow of information, instead of silos of data.

    New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.telecom.frost.com/), U.S. E-Government Markets, reveals that the U.S. Government invested almost $3,645.8 million in 2004 on e-governance and expects to spend $5,276.9 million in 2009.

  • Verkehrsverwaltung setzt ARIS Produktfamilie flächendeckend ein

    Das Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen (BMVBW) hat mit der IDS Scheer AG einen Ressortvertrag über den flächendeckenden Einsatz der ARIS Produktfamilie abgeschlossen. Der internationale Full Service Provider für Geschäftsprozessmanagement und IT unterstützt das Ministerium und seine nachgeordneten Behörden zudem mit umfangreichen Consultingaktivitäten. Der Auftrag hat ein Gesamtvolumen von über einer Million Euro.

  • Vietnam: Gov’t looks to boost IT sector

    A new Government scheme targets growth in the information and communications technology industry at two-to-three times the growth in gross domestic production (GDP) through 2020.

    The sector would contribute about 8-10 per cent of annual GDP under the plan signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. In 2009, it accounted for about 7 per cent of GDP.

    The industry managed to record a growth rate of more than 20 per cent in 2009 despite the global economic downturn, earning a total of US$6.26 billion. The hardware sector saw annual growth of 10 per cent, while the software sector has notched up growth of 50 per cent.

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