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Shared Services, Consolidation, Bulk Purchasing Help Ease Budget Pain

- May 7, 2008

State budgets across the country are being cut at an alarming rate. From Alaska to Florida, funding shortages threaten to cripple government agencies that provide the services people depend on. "Crisis" is the unspoken word of the day, especially in IT shops where diminished resources may be insufficient to cope with the looming onslaught of work as agencies beg for technology to save them from a fiscal nightmare.

Does that sound about right? Or does that sound less like reality and more like sensational reporting? Everywhere you look, it's supposedly doom and gloom - the economy is headed toward recession, and states' only hope for prosperity is an Indian casino on every street corner.
There are so many stories about budget crises that it becomes easy to just assume it's all true.

But is it? What is the financial reality for state IT? What strategies are being investigated and deployed? And most importantly, is the sky really about to fall ...Continue Article...