Tag Archives: digital transformation

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) CEO Marc Benioff has said the growing interest in technology that can support digital transformation initiatives across the government and industry is a key growth driver for the cloud computing software provider, CNBC reported Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2019 — A Thales report on data threats states that less than a third of federal agencies utilize data encryption even as a majority run their sensitive data on blockchain, cloud, internet of things and other “digitally transformative” technology environments, ExecutiveBiz reported May 1. The …

Jim Walker, federal chief technology officer and director of public sector marketing at UiPath, has said government agencies could use robotic process automation as an initial platform to begin investing in artificial intelligence to advance their digital transformation initiatives. Walker wrote that RPA could help agencies improve the delivery of …

Hitachi Vantara has announced the appointment of Jonathan Martin, a nearly two-decade marketing veteran in the technology industry, as chief marketing officer and Kristin Machacek Leary, a more than 25-year human resources leader, as chief HR officer. Leary and Martin will report to Scott Kelly, chief operating officer and chief …

Saurabh Verma and Cristina Miller of Acumen Solutions have said government agencies should adopt platform as a service to quickly develop and deploy mission-impacting applications designed to improve the citizen experience. Verma and Miller wrote in a joint article that PaaS offers agencies more time to focus on innovation since …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 3, 2019 — Bob Fortna, president of the federal business at Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT), said security protocols with segmentation, whitelisting, automatic quarantine and other functionality will work to support government agencies’ cybersecurity and digital transformation efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported March 20. Fortna wrote in a GCN guest …

Shad Imam, head of federal pre-sales at MuleSoft, has said agencies seeking to meet changing customer demands should advance connectivity using application programming interfaces. “APIs are quickly becoming core building blocks for digital transformation because they make systems easy to access and allow data to be decoupled from complex underlying …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2019 — SAP National Security Services‘ Secure HANA Cloud platform will be available to state and local governments as well as higher education institutions through the company’s partnership with consultancy LSI, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. LSI said Wednesday it will resell SAP NS2’s Federal Risk and …

GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: GTYH), a special purpose acquisition company founded by former Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and EMC executives, has wrapped up its purchase of six technology companies in a push to expand presence in the public sector market. The deals resulted in the formation of a new software …

Davis Johnson, formerly senior vice president and head of public sector at Riverbed Technology, has joined San Jose, Calif.-based enterprise storage provider Cohesity as VP of federal business. Johnson said in a statement published Tuesday that he will work with the Cohesity team to advance the federal adoption of the …