SANscreen: Driving Datacenter Efficiency Through Effective Capacity Management

The problem: Complex storage environments are typically the second largest IT spend, and growing 50% annually. In today's economy, many of your customers have mandates to improve service availability & performance, increase utilization & efficiencies and lower costs, with no viable solutions in place to achieve these goals. The solution: SANscreen increases Data Center Efficiency, increases utilization and reduces CapEx and OpEx cost by empowering storage and virtual server teams to easily and more efficiently complete Storage Initiatives such as capacity management, server virtualization projects (P2V), load analysis and balancing, tiering, reclamation of underutilized and orphaned resources, consolidations and migrations, performance optimization, as well as extracting data and reports for cost awareness, chargeback, ITIL and CMDB initiatives.

Duration: 1 hour

Dave Collins, Brian Reynolds

Sponsored By FCN Technology Solutions, NetApp

Maximize Your Bid & Proposal ROI: Streamline Task Order Responses to Win More Business

Winning business under multiple award contracts such as GWACs and IDIQs requires fast response, selecting the right teaming partner and the ability to efficiently collaborate across distributed teams. Listen to this informative webcast to learn how you can streamline your task order response and teaming partner collaboration so you can gain the advantage to win more business.

Duration: 40 minutes

Sponsored By Spring CM

Understanding ARRA: An Economic Stimulus Update Webcast

The crunch to compete, evaluate and award funding associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 is creating enormous challenges. Because so much of the $787 billion economic stimulus package will be dispersed in the next 18 months, this Webcast will reveal key implications for federal, state and local government organizations – each of whom must somehow appropriate funding, while providing transparency on spending and allocating monies that will ultimately improve operations and deliver more services. Industry observers claim more than $100 billion will go toward technological advances related to expanding broadband networks and services, building a nationwide electrical ‘smartgrid’ along with related green technologies, and optimizing healthcare IT. Up first, however, are ongoing efforts to support federal IT modernization, including data center improvements for the State Department, Social Security Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs and others.

Duration: 1 hour

Bob Howard

Sponsored By GovConnection

ERP Process Visibility Problems? Register for Process Optimization Webcast

The biggest challenge to improving the efficiency of your business processes often lies in knowing how these processes really work across your agency today. Very often, government processes involve people across organizations and span multiple applications and systems – ranging from ERP, CRM and SCM systems to legacy solutions that tend to be “black-boxes”. In this Webcast we will demonstrate how our Automated Process Discovery offering helped identify and optimize a client’s procurement processes around an ERP solution.

Duration: 1 hour

Sponsored By Fujitsu

Mobilize your agency PBX the BlackBerry way

BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry® MVS) mobilizes PBX systems, bringing office phone features to BlackBerry® smartphones. By using one business number, BlackBerry MVS is designed to help you avoid missed calls. With advanced security features, wireless administration, and centralized management, BlackBerry MVS is designed to give you the flexibility you need with the controls you trust.

Duration: 1 hour

Sponsored By Research In Motion, Blackberry

Reconsidering the Solaris Linux choice

The IT industry landscape has changed, and thus many organizations are reconsidering the Solaris choice. However, government agencies shoulder a greater burden of responsibility to national security, fiscal accountability, and transparency than your average corporate organization. Sign up for this Webcast to learn more.

Duration: 1 hour

Sponsored By Carahsoft, Red Hat

Overcoming the Greatest Challenge of the FDCC Mandate

The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) mandate requires government agencies to ensure that users do not log in to their Windows XP or Vista computers with administrator rights. These rights must be restricted in order to ensure that users do not change the mandated standard security configurations. Additionally any system operating with administrative privileges is at high risk of being exploited by malware and malicious users.

Duration: 1 hour

Derek Melber

Sponsored By BeyondTrust

Delivering Performance Management Excellence at the City of Dallas

In this exclusive case study, learn how the City of Dallas communicated information pertaining to 3500 performance measures across 30 city departments and to the public using BIRT Performance Scorecard. Attendees will hear about the tremendous benefits associated with building a culture of performance management that extends beyond internal groups of managers and analysts to include all stakeholders – all city employees and constituents.

Duration: 1 hour

Margaret Wright

Sponsored By Actuate

Improve Opportunity Management utilizing Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a line of business application

The coordination of government RFP and RFI responses is a continual challenging process requiring the task management, document version control and the coordination of multiple teams. An effective opportunity management solution can enable government contractors to accurately manage pipeline management, collaboration and proposal development. Success ultimately depends on whether your organization can respond with speed, knowledge, and confidence. Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be utilized beyond sales force automation as an alternative to line of business applications to enable government contractors to better track their pipeline and opportunity management.

Duration: 1 hour

Jason Ambrose, Paul Murphy, Christine Zmuda

Sponsored By Microsoft, Ascentium

Optimizing a Public Sector Business in a Commercial Enterprise: Creating a Flourishing Gov Con Division

Deltek has partnered with analyst firm IDC to help you understand the nuances of the government market and the best practices you to embrace to ensure a successful govcon division. Join us for a Webcast – Optimizing a Public Sector Business within a Commercial Firm – and gain an understanding of why govcon divisions in commercial firms need to put these best practices in place.

Duration: 1 hour

Michael Fauscette, Jim Rogers

Sponsored By Deltek

Lowering the Cost of Government with Enhanced Reporting: Government Agencies Speak on Transparency and Efficiency

Transparency and Lowering the Cost of Government are two of the five key pillars the new Federal CIO has established to transform the Federal Enterprise into a 21st Century Information Technology Infrastructure that is citizen-centric. The President directed the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies in a memorandum saying: "Government should be transparent ... Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available ..." All agencies are now required to begin reporting on their IT investments through the use of dashboards and other automated processes. Lean Business Process Management (BPM) is being touted as the primary solution of choice for many agencies to meet the new Reporting requirements. Viewed as a pragmatic approach to BPM, Lean BPM makes it possible for agencies to automate processes quickly, and get the transparency and governance they need, without the cost and complexity of traditional process solutions.

Duration: 1 hour

Ken McCurdy, Marty Butcher, Tim Kelly, Summer Ficarrotta

Sponsored By Serena Software

Government Telework Programs: Meeting the Security Challenge

Over the past several years telework has gained momentum as a leading employment practice at all levels of government. This first wave of government telework programs produced significant cost reductions, increased employee productivity, met energy conservation goals, and improved Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP). Now, a second wave is emerging as the Obama administration has announced bold plans to expand government telework programs. Is your organization prepared? This Webcast will discuss how Federal, state, and local government organizations can deploy and expand secure telework programs.

Duration: 1 hour

Mark Bouchard, Chris Witeck

Sponsored By SonicWALL

Learn Government Best Practices in Performance Management to track Operational Efficiencies: Performance Scorecards with Root Cause Analysis

Implementing a successful, holistic approach to operational performance management requires government organizations to break through interagency silos and define realistic, achievable goals and objectives that are directly linked to their mission and the demands of people they serve. Join Actuate experts with over 15 years of Performance Management implementation experience as they share best practices on how organizations both adhere and refine best practices to help foster a performance culture where results are measured and managed to drive positive outputs and outcomes for their constituents. Learn tips and tricks of large scale implementations within government; what to look for, what to avoid, the pitfalls, and how to implement a performance management culture embraced by all users, at all levels of the agency.

Duration: 1 hour

John Katsoulis, Catie Sirie

Sponsored By Actuate

Reporting and analytics - Learn to avoid these four worst practices

It's easy to buy reporting and analysis tools: business intelligence (BI) is a multi-billion-dollar market, with vendors ranging from the biggest names to boutiques. Unfortunately, most users don't have the time or resources to learn how to use BI tools. Yet organizations frequently deploy them to non-technical users, causing low user satisfaction, poor adoption rates, and minimal value per tax dollar spent. To be successful, you have to learn the alternatives.

Duration: 1 hour

Cloud Computing: What is the next step…and are you ready to take it?

For organizations currently using traditional infrastructures, a cloud will enable users to consume IT resources in the data center in ways that were never before available. Agencies following traditional data center management practices know that making IT resources available to an end user can be time-intensive. A cloud dramatically alleviates this problem by implementing automation, business workflows and resource abstraction. So why haven’t more agencies moved toward cloud computing. Where does your agency stand?

Duration: 1 hour

Howard Levenson, Teri Robinson

Sponsored By IBM