A new product partnership with Oracle Corp. on a public sector software solution should help the smaller MapInfo Corp. boost its mapping technology business in the government market.
The Maryland Insurance Administration awarded a $3 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., to install a three-tier database server. The contract requires the vendor to migrate the agencyÕs applications from the existing two-tier client-server environment. The agency is implementing an integrated database solution that will house most of its applications, which include complaints tracking, fraud, billing and contact management.
WyomingÕs Republican Gov. Jim Geringer spends a lot of time studying how governors can use technology effectively to run their states. Now in his second term, Geringer, 54, serves with Washington Gov. Gary Locke as co-chairman of the IT Task Force for the National GovernorsÕ Association.
The long-term impact of the year 2000 software problem on state information technology plans is of great concern to many company executives. They want to know whether Y2K will cause a major disruption to state IT spending.
West Virginia officials are optimistic that a 4-year-old FBI identification center in Clarksburg will help the state secure federal funds to create a research center for identification technologies.
The Maryland Department of Human Resources, Child Care Administration, awarded a contract to J&E Associates Inc. of Silver Spring, Md., to research the stateÕs regulations, training delivery, funding policies and other factors relative to career development in the child care profession.
Don Heiman, chief information officer for the state of Kansas, realized the year 2000 issue had put his office under the microscope when state legislators on a joint oversight committee quizzed him for more than four hours about computer codes, Cobol and routers.
While government spending on year 2000 remediation projects has provided a windfall to small information technology companies that made it the core of their business, many of them now are scrambling to find new avenues for continuing work with state and local government customers after Jan. 1, 2000.
Connecticut Gov. John Rowland urged the nationÕs governors to consider slashing their information technology bureaucracies and turning over state IT functions to the private sector at their recent winter summit in Washington.
In the fierce competition among cities and states to attract high-tech companies, Pennsylvania has developed a new tool that gives it an edge when businesses come knocking, state officials said.
Billion dollar outsourcing awards, such as the one unveiled by the state of Connecticut, are clarifying the future direction of the IT outsourcing market in the states.
SAP America Public Sector has won its first statewide contract to install an integrated information management system, garnering a $1.2 million award from the state of Delaware.
The state of Massachusetts, IT Hardware Procurement Management Team and the Operational Services Division, established a new statewide contract for IT servers, related peripherals and services.
Electronic commerce is ready to take off in the public sector, with state and local governments set to devote significant portions of their technology budgets so that governments get online and their citizens get out of lines, government and industry officials said.
When Elizabeth Boatman took over in March 1997 as the head of ChicagoÕs Department of Business and Information Services, a colleague warned her that she would soon become one of the most unpopular people in the government.
The proliferation of automated child welfare information systems is laying the groundwork for a revolution in how the federal government measures the effectiveness of welfare programs, according to state and federal government officials.
The top government systems integrators have dropped their shotgun approach to pursuing state and local contracts in favor of mining specific market segments, ranging from health care to tax systems, according to industry analysts and executives.
When it comes to information technology spending, buyers from state governments and large corporations have a lot more in common than one might think. On average, states spend about 2 percent to 3 percent of their operating budgets on information technology. Service-based commercial businesses, such as health care and insurance companies, spend about the same.
When it comes to information technology spending, buyers from state governments and large corporations have a lot more in common than one might think. On average, states spend about 2 percent to 3 percent of their operating budgets on information technology. Service-based commercial businesses, such as health care and insurance companies, spend about the same.
