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Rob Stein, senior vice president for North America public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said the adoption of cloud could help government agencies deliver improved services to citizens and carry out their missions. “Cloud can co-exist with legacy infrastructure to unlock data that resides in back-office systems, deliver it across the enterprise and provide the agility needed to make it highly applicable to just about any mission need,” Stein wrote.

Shad Imam, director of solution engineering for federal region at MuleSoft, told Rob Stein, senior vice president for North America public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), in an interview how government agencies can accelerate the delivery of services and improved experiences to citizens using application programming interfaces.

Matt Goodrich, principal solutions engineer at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program sets a standardized approach to cloud security in the federal government and its continuous evolution has resulted in agencies starting to realize that the cloud offers better security. Goodrich wrote that agencies now see security as a fundamental part of the development process from the beginning and their level of trust in cloud deployments enables them to quickly develop applications designed to support the needs of employees and citizens.

Casey Coleman, senior vice president of global government solutions at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and a two-time Wash100 award winner, has said agencies should treat citizens as customers, empower employees and build strategic partnerships on the cloud to facilitate the delivery of government services and transform missions. She wrote that treating citizens as customers allows agencies to operate “outside-in” and helps them create a “coalition of yes” or an environment that encourages citizens to be more involved.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has finalized its acquisition of Sierra-Cedar’s Salesforce, Workday and U.S. Mulesoft practices for an undisclosed amount.

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has agreed to buy Vlocity, a San Francisco-based cloud and mobile software provider, for approximately $1.33B. The transaction is expected to be finalized in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, subject to the waiting period’s expiration under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and other customary closing conditions, Salesforce said Tuesday.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Sierra-Cedar’s Workday, U.S. Mulesoft and Salesforce practices for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand its offerings to government and higher education organizations seeking to update their core operations and software for finance, accounting, human resources and student services.

Michael Barnes, former senior strategic account executive for the Department of Agriculture at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has joined Google's (Nasdaq: GOOGL) cloud business as a federal civilian sales executive, G2Xchange ETC reported Thursday.

Jim Pietrocini, who has 25 years of federal market experience, has joined Centauri's space superiority and missile defense unit as vice president of business development. He aims to grow the firm's government client base in the cybersecurity, space and missile defense, engineering and intelligence segments, the company said Friday.

Geoff Vaughan, a more than 19-year information technology industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of operations for Steampunk’s federal civilian sector.