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AI for State and Local Government: A Three-Part Guide To Getting Started

In the digital age, taxpayers have high expectations for government services. According to a recent BCG worldwide survey, 75% of respondents said they expect government services to be on par with the best private sector institutions, including global digital leaders such as Apple, Google, and Uber. A substantial majority also expressed their eagerness for the government to offer more personalized and proactive services.

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Local Health Departments and the Cloud: Making the CDC’s National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Your “First Step” to the Cloud

As we transition into the post-pandemic era, health and human services (HHS) organizations continue to drive cloud adoption at the state level, with the majority of departments applying cloud computing to their operations and service delivery. At the local level, however, cloud adoption remains far less prevalent. As of 2023, more than two-thirds of local governments were still approaching the delivery of digital government services in an ad-hoc manner, and 27% had yet to make plans for a more organized approach.

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A SkyMap Cloud Migration: Charting a Course for a Successful Migration (and Beyond)

There are many technology tools that help organizations migrate applications to the cloud, but those solutions solve only for the technology, not the process. Enquizit’s SkyMap offers something different. As a process definition and enforcement tool, it both defines and enforces the migration process—helping Enquizit’s team of experts map out a customer’s migration with maximum efficiency and ensuring the customer is optimized in the cloud from their very first move.

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Are Your Legacy Apps Holding You Back? A 5-Step Guide to Incremental App Modernization

With cloud-based computing now over a decade old, many organizations already have experience building cloud-native apps or performing “lift-and-shifts” of legacy platforms into the cloud. But not all legacy apps offer an easy transition. What about those legacy apps that are more complicated or are running on outdated code? Faced with daunting migrations, many companies opt to ignore (or navigate around) recurring issues tied to those apps.

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Surviving a Shutdown: 5 Ways Agencies Can Help Contractors by Planning Ahead for a Government Shutdown

Federal government shutdowns, the result of funding gaps that occur when Congress can’t agree on a spending bill, are a relatively recent phenomenon. Since the first shutdown in 1981, there have been 10 more, with the longest lasting 35 days, from December 18, 2018, to January 25, 2019. On average, shutdowns now occur about every four years and last nearly nine days.

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Open to Open-Source: How To Shift Your Agency’s Mindset and Get Started With Open-Source Code

As of 2022, 97% of all codebases relied on open-source code, making it practically ubiquitous in the tech sector. Open-source software is widely known to drive innovation and increase speed-to-market while ensuring that organizations are leveraging the most up-to-date tech innovations. But despite its prevalence broadly, the public sector has been more reticent to adopt open-source practices. Why? Complex procurement processes combined with security concerns mean that it often feels easier for government IT departments to continue using custom-built software by default.

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