To make every budgeted dollar count towards economic growth, finance leaders should shift towards informed budgeting. Informed budgeting uses performance metrics, citizen needs, and economic forecasts to allocate resources more effectively. Here’s how this approach can benefit public finance agencies and economies.
Police investigations depend on data, and ensuring that the data is accurate and readily available to police in the field is a powerful way to make officers more productive and help them in ensuring the safety of our communities. Forces can no longer continually spend their IT budget on ‘keeping the lights on’, or delivering monolithic IT programmes.
San Bernadino County Sheriff's Department deploys Microsoft Office 365 for secure collaboration and better response to citizen needs.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority deploys Office 365 for disaster preparedness.
Cybersecurity remains the overriding IT challenge for most agencies, and governments sometimes undercut their ability to secure themselves and their citizens by keeping industry at a distance in their IT planning.
San Francisco City moves 29,000 employees to the cloud to reduce IT management costs and improve how key public safety services.
State and local governments have been able to maintain its commitment to privacy and security as Microsoft’s cloud tools meet their specific requirements.
By bringing a new training model for proactive security to a cloud e-learning platform, trained citizens can become human sensors for improving urban safety.
U.S. government agencies can realize benefits of the cloud with government-specific environment.
State and Local governments continue to shift more applications to the cloud. This frees up valuable resources for more strategic, mission focused projects. The move to the cloud also enables more collaboration and ensures workloads can be accessed from anywhere, at any time, and from any device.
