GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Springbrook Software | November 09, 2021
Springbrook Software, the leading cloud-based ERP platform for local government agencies, just released advanced Capital Budgeting and Planning, fully integrated with Springbrook's cloud-based Cirrus financial platform. The solution reduces budget management and development time by 50%.
"Our full featured solution is developed for government agency finance teams to help them track, measure and improve organizational performance. Customers have reported up to a 50% savings in time in automating manual processes and up to 80% in reporting. The collaborative features of this solution make it ideal for the new, work from anywhere workforce."
Robert Bonavito, Springbrook CEO.
Advanced Capital Budgeting and Planning delivers critical capabilities, including the ability to create an unlimited number of budget projections, worksheets, and proposed budget reports for review. The state-of-the-art budgeting and forecasting tool is fully integrated with multiple publishing capabilities and features intuitive, collaborative based dashboards and powerful API integrations.
Highlights include the ability to analyze all financial and non-financial data used in the forecasting and budgeting process; instant and convenient self-service access to managers, the ability to attach multiple format documents and full audit compliance.
"This is just the latest example of our continued investments in bringing the most powerful, modern, intuitive and secure solutions to local government agencies. Our goal is to provide tools that enable data driven decisions based on real time information, delivered in the most efficient manner possible, and our customers tell us that we're fulfilling that commitment," adds Bonavito.
About Springbrook Software
Springbrook Software is the country's leading cloud-based finance and administration software provider designing solutions specifically for small to medium sized local government agencies. 1700+ villages, towns, municipalities, fire districts, public health boards and cities in seven countries around the globe, use our suite of modern, high-performance solutions to manage their finances, payroll, utility billing and collect citizen payments. Springbrook is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with regional presence in Washington, New York, Massachusetts and New Zealand.
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GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Appian | December 09, 2020
Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today reported a joint effort with Accenture Federal Services (AFS), an auxiliary of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), to additionally disentangle the federal acquisition measure through low-code robotization. Through the joint exertion, AFS is growing new delivery accelerators to upgrade Appian's Acquisition Solutions, which streamline the acquisition cycle and approve that the cycle completely follows the Federal Acquisition Regulations for defense and regular citizen organizations, their enhancements and approaches.
"Federal procurement teams are often bogged down by systems and manual tasks that complicate the acquisition process, increase risk, lower efficiency and add unnecessary costs," said Aaron Jackson, digital platforms lead at Accenture Federal Services. "Appian's low-code automation platform, coupled with Accenture's experience in automation and artificial intelligence, simplifies the acquisition process and delivers tremendous value, helping organizations eliminate process bottlenecks and ensure timely delivery of products and services."
In the present computerized scene, federal pioneers are entrusted with mechanizing complex work processes a lot while being needed to safely bind together information, individuals, the advanced labor force, and all business measures. This places a hefty weight on obtainment groups that are attached to obsolete frameworks and have severe spending limitations. To change, organizations must use their present IT ventures and broaden the capacities of their inheritance frameworks, which should be possible with a low-code computerization stage.
"Accenture is a long-time collaborator with Appian, and we are thrilled to expand our relationship into federal services," said Marc Wilson, senior vice president of Global Partnerships & Industries, Appian. "Partners play a key role in helping garner awareness for the benefits of low-code automation and we continue to see success when we work together. The new delivery accelerators being created by Accenture Federal Services for the Appian Government Acquisition solutions suite will further aid the government to make changes in their digital automation strategies that have lasting impact."
The new delivery accelerators from AFS seamlessly incorporate into the new Appian Award Management arrangement, which progresses the cycle for contract closeout, while rearranging selection and fast execution.
About Accenture Federal Services
Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.
About Appian
Appian provides a low-code automation platform that accelerates the creation of high-impact business applications. Many of the world's largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance.
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GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Qualcomm | November 17, 2020
The U.S. government has at long last backed off on Chinese cell phone producer, Huawei. The nation has permitted American chipset producer Qualcomm to sell 4G cell phone chips to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. This is the primary exclusion made by the US government since the expanding pressures between the two nations. The American government had trained all chipset makers to quit sourcing items to the Chinese organization since Septemeber.
The spokes person from Qualcomm did not specify the exact chip that they will be supplying to Huawei. However, they did confirm that it is related to mobile devices.
Other than Qualcomm chipsets, Huawei has its own scope of chipsets which has been being used in many gadgets sold by the organization, particularly on mid-reach and spending contributions. The organization's capability to plan its own chips was additionally impeded in September by U.S. exchange limitations that obstructed its admittance to chip plan programming and creation devices. Industry investigators trust Huawei's store of chips bought before the boycott could run out ahead of schedule one year from now, devastating its cell phone business.
Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon said the Qualcomm license would have a "limited impact" because it covers only 4G chips while consumers are shifting to newer 5G devices. Rasgon said it is still unclear whether U.S. officials will grant Qualcomm licenses for 5G smartphone chips.
About Qualcomm
Who is Qualcomm, and what do we do? We are engineers, scientists and business strategists. We are from many different countries and speak many different languages. We come from diverse cultures and have unique perspectives. Together, we focus on a single goal—we invent breakthrough technologies that transform how the world connects, computes, and communicates.
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