Going Digital: Evaluating the Government’s Transformation Strategy

State and local governments are tasked with securely connecting one or multiple of five things to support mission-critical needs: People, locations, data, clouds and applications. With a renewed focus on government cybersecurity, agencies face increased pressure to keep those connections secure. There’s growing attention to the physical security of government data centers and an increase in the adoption of cloud strategies that explore vendor-neutral data center options. And as governments look to future-proof their operations and keep pace with the ever-changing digital world, more agencies are leveraging networking and interconnection capabilities that can dynamically deliver services from multiple clouds or networks around the country. Having effective security across these clouds will be critical in enabling agency success.

Grants compliance can be a heavy lift for any organization. With the recent influx of federal funding for state and local governments, grants compliance has only grown more complex. Agencies must navigate uniform compliance requirements while balancing program-specific requirements or risk losing grant funding, designation as a ‘high-risk grantee’ and audits. Trying to achieve compliance with outdated management systems only limits potential funding success. Governments need grant management solutions that simplify research, compliance and reporting, handle complicated processes and save time.

Learn the ins and outs of how the government handles post-award orientations, quality requirements, delays, modifications, payments, disputes, terminations, acceptance, and close-outs.

Agencies across state and local government are using cloud to become more agile and more digitally enabled – and they’re leveraging their troves of data to gain insights, improve service delivery and implement data-driven decision-making.