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With federal mandates around technology business management (TBM), FITARA, DODAF and other frameworks, it’s now more important than ever for federal agencies to gain complete visibility and control over their enterprise architecture and application portfolios. Better enterprise architecture management can reduce organizational risks and technology costs. It also fosters greater collaboration between the business and…

Today, more than ever, government agencies need to ensure that money is spent wisely and correctly. In this article, you’ll learn how Software AG’s webMethods Integration Platform assists agencies with waste, fraud, and abuse. Using unemployment claims processing as an example, I’ll describe how existing processes can be quickly and easily adapted to save money…

The Department of Defense (DoD) — the federal government’s largest agency and the country’s largest employer — collects a nearly incalculable amount of data. There’s business analytics and decision support data, acquisitions, logistics and financial transaction data, and operational data ranging from reimbursement rates associated with Army Ground vehicles to data for Joint All Domain…

What does data mean to the United States Department of Defense? Everything. In 2019, the DoD made the decision to transform into a data-centric organization in order to better use data for a variety of goals, from better preparedness and improved battlefield outcomes to more efficient operations and procurement. The DoD recognized the importance of…

WashingtonExec writer, Amanda Ziadeh, spoke with Ian Thompson, Federal Civilian Vice President of Software AG Government Solutions, and discussed the current objectives driving federal agencies to manage and understand their application portfolios. During the interview, they considered some of the challenges that agencies face in their application rationalization initiative, how successful federal agencies have started…

In August of 2020, WashingtonExec senior reporter, Amanda Ziadeh, sat down with Tod Weber, CEO of Software AG Government Solutions, to discuss their real-time Government Integration Hub and how it is being used across federal, state, and local government to support emergency responses. We’ve rounded up the top three reasons why your agency or organization…

Are you agile? I’m not asking if you can perform a back-bend without ending up in hospital. What I want to know is, can your company quickly scale up to a digital environment and add anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 new users a day? Many organizations cannot, and we are seeing them fall by the…

If you still have an application supporting your organization 20 years or more after it was built, it’s not legacy, it’s mission critical. These systems are used every day, but the general public likely doesn’t know it. They are part of our tax systems, social services, and public safety. They run the stock market, our…

Integration technology that can make data flow between government department silos lends a helping hand in keeping your community safe. If a violent criminal is released from prison too early by mistake, he or she could be living in your neighborhood. You, your home, your family could be at risk. But, too often, the police…

The ability to share information across the criminal justice system can be a matter of life and death. If information is late, or incorrect, it could lead to the improper release of a dangerous prisoner. Or someone innocent could go to jail. But sharing data across a tangle of courts, police departments and other government…