Recent trends in federal datacenter environments have placed increased pressures on IT managers including system consolidation and unpredictable budgets. This situation has prompted federal customers to seek ways to increase service levels while operating under strict budgets.

A number of federal agencies have set ambitious goals for themselves in areas such as server consolidation, datacenter consolidation, and power-saving programs for datacenters.

Today’s military doctrine calls for more agile, mobile, self-sustaining weapons systems and platforms.  To support this new doctrine, the DOD has been re-engineering its logistics and maintenance operations.  In this new maintenance and logistics environment, operators of weapons systems and platforms will perform more of their own maintenance while in the field.

Enigma’s Integrated Maintenance/Logistics (E-IML) solution answers the need for a single electronic interface to perform maintenance in the field or at the depot. It’s more than the traditional Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM). It offers the following benefits:

• Reduces the logistics footprint of platforms and weapons systems
• Automate paper-based maintenance processes
• Links the platform/mechanic to the supply chain (real-time access to relevant weapon systems information)
• Reduces the total lifecycle cost of the platform
• Reduces incorrect part orders
• Provides increased readiness without increasing headcount

In this publication you will find dozens of short, real-life stories of challenges met—and transcended—through fresh thinking and the creative application of state-of-the-art information technology (IT). We've grouped these stories by the three main segments of the public sector, but urge you to browse outside your own industry to see if there are any new, “outside the box” ideas that may be useful for your organization.

As the military and US government rely more heavily on custom-built applications for communications and management, they also become more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Worse, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security, the number of attacks on custom-built applications is doubling every year. Learn about critical threats, methods that military and civilian agencies can use to deal with cyber attacks and technologies that improve security for custom-built applications.

Shift to Performance-Driven Government Governments today must strive for both cost reduction and increased revenue generation. Oracle’s Siebel Public Sector solutions allow agencies to deliver world-class service at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Customer relationship management (CRM) technology has become increasingly relevant in the public sector as citizens have become accustomed to high levels of service and convenience. Government agencies share a common set of imperatives that are the driving force in this evolution. Performance-driven government represents a shift toward processes that address citizen needs efficiently and effectively, delivering the highest return on government and taxpayer investments....