Doing business with the Government of Canada

Small Biz Matters a half hour program each week where you can work ON your business rather than IN it.with Alexi Boyd from Boyd Office Management ServicesDate: 20 November 2018 When operating a small business in Australia we have to navigate local, state and federal legislation and compliance.

According to Gartner, the Federal government views cloud as a long-term pathway to strategic IT modernization, whereas state and local governments tend to pursue the immediate tactical benefits of innovation and cost savings. Cloud hybridization has resulted in a more complex cost model, and state agencies are looking at ways to utilize machine intelligence to govern costs, manage usage, and stay within budget. This multi-cloud approach also requires tight control of compliance and security vulnerabilities.

Public cloud – a shared environment that incorporates public sector best operating practices – is designed to constantly evolve to help local government organizations take advantage of new technologies and breakthrough business process innovations. They empower more proactive, automated, strategic, data-driven, and citizen-focused services. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platforms based on public cloud benefit from best business practices established over decades of working with public service organizations.

Across the federal government, agencies are turning to the cloud to modernize legacy applications, systems and data in order to enable new, innovative ways to meet their mission goals. A strategic focus of migration to the cloud is data governance. Ensuring the usability of data and prioritizing information security are key strategic initiatives across organizations. How can strong data governance be built into an agency’s cloud migration? And how will doing so drive better data storage, analysis and utilization? Join Maximus and GovExec to explore data governance in the cloud.