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Illinois Digital Government Summit

September 15 - 16, 2008 Crown Plaza Springfield, IL Join us for this conference to hear from national experts and engage in a dialog with your peers on emerging trends in government technology.
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September 8 - 9, 2008
Marriott
Williamsburg, VA
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Public Sector, Education Track at OpenWorld Explores Using Oracle Applications to Become More Innovative

September 21-25, 2008
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA
This year's public sector and education track examines how governments, school districts, and higher education institutions are using Oracle applications and technology to become more innovative, integrated, and intelligent.

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Shared services span across organizations or divisions, single source operations, and solutions.


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Event: What an Economic Recession Means for Shared Services Organizations Add to My GT:
Jul 15, 2008 - Why staff recruiting and retention is critical.
Alliance Announced to Accelerate Consumer-Centered Delivery of Health and Human Services Add to My GT:
Jul 8, 2008 - The framework fosters an industry-standards-based shared-services model that facilitates efficient and effective reuse of business and technical functions common across the numerous stand-alone programs representative of state HHS agencies.
Intelligence Integration and Interoperability Demonstrated in U.K Add to My GT:
Jul 8, 2008 - Will give the U.K. military the ability to discover and catalogue information from otherwise disconnected systems or "hubs" of intelligence information.
Michigan Releases Strategic Plan for Technology Add to My GT:
May 22, 2008 - "It lays out how technology will enable us to build a better state government and fulfill our priority areas."
Texas CTO Brian Rawson Previews Upcoming Procurements Add to My GT:
May 20, 2008 - State will rebid contracts for statewide network and TexasOnline Web portal.
Shared Services and Work Force Issues Add to My GT:
May 8, 2008 - Employees often benefit from a move to shared services.
SOA Reduces Risk and Cost in Shared Services Projects Add to My GT:
May 7, 2008 - Service-oriented architecture offers low-risk, low-cost building blocks for creating shared services in government.
Shared Service Keeps Inglewood, Calif., Competitive for Parking Ticket Processing Add to My GT:
May 7, 2008 - Public-private partnership lets California city upgrade multi-jurisdiction processing service.
Aligning IT and Business Is Priority for Public CIOs Add to My GT:
May 2, 2008 - New strategies synchronize technology and agency missions.
IT Staff Concerned with Federal Government's Slow SOA Adoption Rate Add to My GT:
Apr 23, 2008 - "With SOA, government agencies can continue to use the systems that work best for them and extend their lifetime, while avoiding costly 'rip and replace' strategies."
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Shared Services and Work Force Issues Add to My GT:

May 8, 2008 - Employees often benefit from a move to shared services.



Making Sense for the Public Sector
Following private-sector lead, government is showing more interest in shared services.

Shared Services Survey Executive Summary
All aspects of this survey including hosting, sorting, editing, tabulation and report preparation were completed by Government Technology magazine.

Shared Services: Making the Best Available to Everyone

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Efficiency and Responsiveness
An Extreme Government Makeover
Better insights, adaptive processes, less costly operations -- turning these pipe dreams into reality requires next-generation enterprise applications. Public sector organizations are using middleware to streamline operations, make more accurate decisions and secure sensitive information.

Middleware Takes Center Stage
Addressing integration challenges, while laying the foundation for deploying and maintaining a service-oriented architecture (SOA) requires a comprehensive middleware solution that does more than merely serve as the glue to link operational data and applications.

Improve Efficiency and Responsiveness
Faced with intense pressure to quickly and efficiently provide services and information, most government organizations are saddled with systems that fail to provide an enterprise-wide view.

Business Intelligence for the Masses
In a perfect world, government would have immediate web-based access to a comprehensive and integrated suite of analytic tools that would assist in informed decision-making to further agency mission goals.

Collaboration
Cashing in on the Oracle/Siebel Connection
Performance-driven government shifts processes to efficiently address citizen needs. Replacing cumbersome tools and inefficient, paper-based processes facilitates the delivery of 'world-class' services that will satisfy constituents, businesses, partners and legislators.

Plugging into SOA
To overcome the complexity of their applications and IT environments, government agencies are turning to service-oriented architectures. SOA provides a more simplified IT environment that leverages existing technology, while delivering improved visibility, flexibility and speedier operations.

Converting Case Files into Constituent Views
Centralized government contact centers enable employees to manage cases and workloads, providing agencies with a singular view of citizens. This can help achieve efficiencies via cross-agency collaboration and service delivery.

Revenue Generation
Raising the Government's BI IQ
When it comes to business intelligence, the end goals are better decisions, more informed investments and more efficient processes. Interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries, proactive alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, real-time predictive intelligence and disconnected analytics can raise any organization's IQ.

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Blueprint for Change
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