White Papers

Virtual Systems, Real Responsiveness: State and Local Governments Boost Service by Virtualizing Mission-Critical Applications
August 2012
Discover why virtualizing mission-critical applications should be the next step in virtualization that your government agency should take.

The Four ‘P’s of Selecting an Effective IT Solution: A Checklist for CIOs
August 2012
Download this issue brief to view a CIO’s must-have checklist for selecting broad-level IT solutions for government.

The Four ‘P’s of Selecting an Effective IT Solution: A Checklist for Elected Officials
July 2012
Download this issue brief to view an elected official’s must-have checklist for selecting broad-level IT solutions for government.

Fraud Busters: Why Agencies Should Look to Data Integration Tools to Help Stop Scammers
July 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out how a comprehensive approach, with the proper data integration tools, can help government combat health care and human services program abuses.

Cloud Security Gets Easier
June 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out six of the top IT challenges facing state and local leaders and how cloud computing – with the right security, management and governance controls – can help overcome them.

Lessons in Applied Innovation from State and Local Government
May 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Discover the six trending topics in state and local government that hold the promise of getting government out of the protracted recession and on the road to innovation.

Collaborative Community Development: Using ECM to connect planning, mapping and asset management
June 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out why an ECM strategy across governmental departments and processes is the key to impactful change in local government operations.

Special Report: Smarter, Leaner, Faster
May 2012
This is a must-read for CIOs and other federal, state and local agency leaders looking to utilize enterprise IT services to support smarter, faster and leaner government processes. It is packed full of benefits and best practices from the agencies that have realized the transformative power of IT infrastructures and services applied across the enterprise.

Access Denied: Protecting Data and Systems from the Risks of Collaboration
May 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out the security-related challenges governments face in this age of collaboration and how identity and access management (IAM) can help overcome those challenges.

A New Model for Human Resources: Realizing the Potential of the Government Workforce
April 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

This issue brief explores new models for human resources and outlines a strategic approach on how to get there. This leads to an end result of cost savings, and freeing up governmental workers for more strategic and value-added job responsibilities.

Document Driven Process Automation and Human Services
January 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Read this Center for Digital Government issue to find out how document-driven process automation can drastically accelerate workflow in state and local government human services agencies.

Government and Legacy ERP: A Broken Model
April 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out how finance and human resources in the cloud can create cost savings, provide a modern platform for government agencies and unlock siloed data.

Purging the Paper: How ECM Improves Transparency and Enhances Agenda Management in Government
April 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Learn how ECM can significantly improve agenda management and ultimately lead to more efficient, transparent government.

Streamlining the Business of Government: How Document-Driven Processes Produce Business Value for the Public Sector
April 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Discover how enterprise content management helps government “do less with less,” and supports critical government efforts to reduce costs and redundancies in business processes, documents and data, applications, and systems.

The Value of Enterprise Content Management for Law Enforcement
April 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out how enterprise content management enhances law enforcement by increasing situational awareness, reducing costs, providing efficiencies and improving security.

Wireless Technologies Provide a ‘Force Multiplier’ to Increase Public Safety
March 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out how M2M can boost situational awareness and act as a force multiplier for public safety agencies.

Controlling Costs and Improving Services in Government with Smart Technology
March 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out how M2M can help governments do more with fewer resources, while also helping boost efficiencies, provide better services and in some cases even generate new revenue streams.

Cloud-Based Services Accelerate Public Sector Adoption of Video Collaboration
March 2012
By the Center for Digital Government

Find out how cloud-based video collaboration is opening the door to new possibilities for the public sector around the world.

Research uncovers costly gaps in the legacy systems that government agencies use to track and manage absenteeism
March 2012
Learn how government agencies can utilize automated workforce management systems to achieve major cost savings, optimized and productive operations, and peace of mind when it comes to regulatory compliance for government.

Special Report: The Government Dashboard
February 2012
The Government Dashboard - Business Analytics, Data Warehousing, Performance Management, Large-scale Data Management