Each year, U.S. State Chief Information Officers compile a list of what they feel are the important trends for the coming year. I always find it interesting as it generally speaks to the unique perspective of government technologists. As a result, it has closer relevance to my work here in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
1. Consolidation \/ Optimization: <\/strong>centralizing, consolidating services, operations, resources, infrastructure, data centers<\/p>\n 2. Budget and Cost Control: <\/strong>managing budget reduction, strategies for savings, reducing or avoiding costs, activity based costing<\/p>\n 3. Health Care: <\/strong>the Affordable Care Act, health enterprise architecture, assessment, partnering, implementation, health information exchange, technology solutions, Medicaid systems (planning, retiring, implementing, purchasing)<\/p>\n 4. Cloud Computing: <\/strong>as a service delivery strategy; models, governance, service management, provisioning, security, privacy, data ownership<\/p>\n 5. Shared Services: <\/strong>business models, sharing resources, services, infrastructure, independent of organizational structure<\/p>\n 6. Governance: <\/strong>improving IT governance, data governance, partnering<\/p>\n 7. Security: <\/strong>risk assessment, governance, authority and executive support; budget and resource requirements; insider threats; third party security practices as outsourcing increases; and security frameworks<\/p>\n 8. Broadband and Connectivity: <\/strong>strengthening statewide connectivity, public safety wireless network, telehealth<\/p>\n 9. Legacy modernization: <\/strong>enhancing, renovating, replacing, legacy platforms and applications, business process improvement<\/p>\n 10. Data and Information Management: <\/strong>enhancing the role of data, information \/ intelligence, knowledge management<\/p>\n 1. Virtualization <\/strong>(servers, storage, computing, data center)<\/p>\n 2. Cloud computing <\/strong>(software as a service, infrastructure, applications, storage)<\/p>\n 3. Networking <\/strong>(voice and data communications, unified communications)<\/p>\n 4. Legacy application modernization \/ renovation <\/strong><\/p>\n 5. Identity and access management <\/strong><\/p>\n 6. Document\/Content\/Records\/E-mail management <\/strong>(active, repository, archiving, <\/strong>digital preservation)<\/p>\n 7. Security enhancement tools <\/strong><\/p>\n 8. Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics applications <\/strong><\/p>\n 9. Enterprise Resource Planning <\/strong>(ERP)<\/p>\n 10. Social media and networking <\/strong>(Web 2.0 services, wikis, blogs, collaboration technologies, and social networking)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each year, U.S. State Chief Information Officers compile a list of what they feel are the important trends for the coming year. I always find it interesting as it generally speaks to the unique perspective of government technologists. As a result, it has closer relevance to my work here in Ottawa. A. Priority Strategies, Management […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116,118,64,117],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-notes","tag-futures-planning","tag-government","tag-technology","tag-trends","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}B. <\/strong>Priority Technologies, Applications and Tools Top 10 Final Ranking<\/strong><\/h2>\n