GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Accela | October 08, 2021
Accela, the leading provider of cloud-based SaaS solutions for government, announced the winners of its Trendsetter Awards at its annual conference, Accelarate, this week. The virtual conference provided a space for the event's more than 1,800 attendees to engage and learn from state and local government leaders, product experts, and industry changemakers on how cutting-edge cloud solutions can help to solve today's most pressing civic problems.
The theme of this year's conference, which ran from October 4-6, was "Our Path Forward," focusing on the way cities, states, and counties anticipate and meet challenges head-on to create better agency and constituent outcomes. From implementing new digital processes that allow for planning proposals and permit applications to be submitted online, to digitally transforming inspection processes to protect the public health and safety of citizens, to leveraging data for better community outcomes, the award winners demonstrate how state and local government agencies are using Accela's cloud-based solutions to help communities overcome adversity.
During Accelarate, attendees heard from Accela executives and product experts, and gained insight into the cloud solutions and digital strategies that will revitalize communities, improve service delivery, and accelerate recovery.
"With the challenges presented to governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing recovery efforts, they must reimagine how to deliver essential services while also meeting the consumer-like expectations of their residents. During Accelarate's Trendsetter Awards online ceremony, Accela is proud to recognize the agencies and individuals who are overcoming many of these challenges by leveraging Accela's cloud-based solutions in innovative or collaborative ways to build more resilient futures for their communities."
Jonathon Knight, Accela's chief customer officer
Registered attendees of the Accelarate conference can access all event content, such as the Trendsetter Awards ceremony, on-demand through December 31, 2021.
Accela delivers leading cloud-based solutions to 80% of the top 100 U.S. cities and strengthens communities for more than 275 million citizens globally. For more information about Accela's solutions, click here.
About Accela
Accela provides market-leading cloud solutions that empower the most innovative state and local governments around the world to build thriving communities, grow businesses, and protect citizens. The company works with 80 percent of the largest cities in the United States and more than 275 million citizens globally benefit from Accela's solutions, which are powered by Azure, for permitting, licensing, code enforcement, and service request management. Accela's fast-to-implement Civic Applications, built on its robust and extensible Civic Platform, help agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are prepared for any emerging or complex challenges in the future. The company was recognized as a Microsoft US Partner Award winner for Community Response (2021, 2020), and Government Partner of the Year (2021), and was named as one of the Largest East Bay Tech Employers by San Francisco Business Times. Accela is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with additional offices around the world.
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GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
Noblis | August 11, 2021
Noblis, Inc., a leading provider of science, technology and strategy services to the federal government, today announced the launch of its Run with Noblis solutions suite designed to drive new levels of efficiency, visibility and insight across complex federal processes. Paired with Noblis' decades of experience tailoring services to address evolving client needs, these digital solutions will help government agencies employ automation and analytics to streamline complex workflows, expedite and improve decision making and achieve broader IT modernization goals.
The first solution within the suite, RunCyberAssurance, is available today to help federal agencies and Cloud service providers (CSPs) streamline FedRAMP and other cybersecurity compliance processes. Additional Run solutions will follow—and are all designed to simplify sophisticated federal work streams, including acquisition and grants management.
"As a science and technology organization, Noblis is founded on strong research and development practices. The addition of scalable, digital solutions is a natural evolution that aligns to our clients' transformation priorities and our strategic growth goals," said Amr ElSawy, Noblis president and CEO. "RunCyberAssurance is the beginning of a long-term strategy pairing tailored software-as-a-service offerings with our government services expertise to best serve our customers as they modernize and innovate."
RunCyberAssurance is a cloud-based solution that can be deployed either as a private stand-alone or client-based application, depending on an organization's unique mission needs. The solution is backed by Noblis' decades of experience guiding organizations through Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), NIST SP 800-53 security controls and FedRAMP. RunCyberAssurance combines automation, analytics, modern user experience and collaboration tools to streamline and standardize the compliance journey post authority to operate (ATO) for agencies and cloud service providers. The benefits include:
• Streamlining continuous monitoring, recording, measuring and tracking per FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 and FedRAMP requirements and OSCAL format ready.
• Facilitating risk mitigation strategies between agencies and CSPs to ensure remediation in a timely manner
• Automating the process of achieving and maintaining continuous ATO
In accordance with the Biden Administration's recent Cybersecurity Executive Order which places emphasis on advancing toward Zero Trust Architecture, RunCyberAssurance enables agencies to go to the cloud faster and more securely. This solution permits scale by allowing both agencies and cloud service providers to securely share and track their strategies and manage the complexity and progress of their cloud compliance with existing teams.
"Our government clients are seeking digital solutions that enable faster, smarter service delivery to their stakeholders and constituents," said Mile Corrigan, senior vice president of Noblis Federal Civilian Solutions. "We designed these solutions to meet the unique needs of our government clients and help them analyze information, automate manual processes and make data-driven decisions."
About the Run with Noblis Solutions Suite
The Run with Noblis solutions suite addresses the evolving needs of federal agencies with the speed, performance and scale of digital solutions that create insights, automate workflows, streamline processes and drive greater outcomes.
About Noblis
Noblis is a dynamic science, technology and strategy organization dedicated to creating forward-thinking technical and advisory solutions in the public interest. We bring the best of scientific thought, management and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, law enforcement and federal civil sectors. Together with our subsidiaries, we tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions.
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Google Cloud | August 31, 2020
Google Cloud and Simple Technology Solutions (STS)—a Google Cloud partner and small business specializing in multi-cloud solutions for the federal government—today announced they are working with the U.S. Navy to modernize the maintenance and repairs inspection process for Navy vessels and facilities. STS will use Google Cloud artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies on inspection drone-captured images to detect, prioritize, and predict its maintenance needs. The work was awarded to STS as a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research project due to the technology innovation and potential for commercialization.
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