We’re pleased to announce that two new team members have joined the Clearwater Public Sector team.
Kaitlyn Llomas, Public Sector Business Development Rep, joined Tech Data in 2016 as a Solutions Associate on the HPE team, where she focused on daily business operations. She then moved to the role of Associate Business Manager, where she focused on business development plans that included enablement of existing partners and recruitment of net new partners. She has an in-depth knowledge of eRate and is ready to help you grow your eRate business.
Tyler Sieradzki recently joined Tech Data as the Public Sector Bid Desk Rep. Tyler’s career history includes working as a Senior Account Specialist in the Truck Division of Enterprise and a four-year stint as a juvenile corrections officer. He works closely with your sales team to assist in recommending the best solutions for your public sector bids.
Both Katilyn and Tyler are committed to providing a high level of support for your Public Sector business, and look forward to working with you!
Contract vehicles help to streamline the procurement process for government agencies, but when you are looking to provide goods or services, they add a dimension of complexity. By creating a new Contracts Exchange Program, our customers have the luxury of teaming up with our contracts exchange partners while avoiding the cost, expense and administrative burden of holding and maintaining contracts on their own.
Through this arrangement, based on a unique collaboration with Strategic Communications, LLC and All About the Data (AATD), Tech Data customers will be able to use existing contract vehicles without the complexities of cost, resources, time constraints and long procurement cycles typically associated with serving as a primary resource or sub-contractor on a government contract on their own.
Tech Data customers interested in working with the public sector will now have access to some of the most popular vehicles offered in both the federal, state, local and education (SLED) marketplace. Contract vehicles available for use include: NASA SEWP V, NITAAC CIO CS, ADMC-3, NASPO ValuePoint, G2G Marketplace, and Texas DIR, among others. These contract vehicles are complementary to the Tech Data GSA contract already in place.
Customers who have access to the Contracts Exchange Program (CEP) will have more flexibility in the way they close deals, as government customers typically use a contract vehicle in order to expedite the process.
Federal IT is in the midst of a broad transformation effort driven by a combination of White House policies, technological advances and legislative initiatives. The Trump Administration’s presidential management agenda calls for modernizing agency IT environments through the adoption of cloud-based shared services, leveraging data as an enterprise asset, improving citizen services and streamlining IT acquisitions. Cloud computing, the incorporation of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence into cybersecurity processes, and the outsourcing of agency networks are key areas of growth in the federal IT space.
Although the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 provided higher near-term funding, agencies will be under pressure in the coming years to increase efficiency, eliminate waste and adopt emerging technologies that promise to improve service-delivery. Deltek forecasts the federal IT market will show modest growth over the next five years as agencies establish strategies to successfully manage competing priorities while streamlining costs.
Key Findings
Source: Deltek June 28, 2019
https://govwin.com/neo/marketAnalysis/view/GovWin-Recon-June-28-2019/3580?researchTypeId=1
It’s that time of year again where we take a look at the top digital transformation trends in the coming year in several industries. First up: education. As we all know, the only thing constant in digital transformation is change. So, how have digital transformation trends in education changed as we move toward the coming decade? And what, if anything, has stayed the same? The following are my top picks for not just technology trends but overall shifts in how we’ll be learning and connecting through technology moving forward.
Customized Learning Experiences
I have a friend in the private school sector who develops such customized learning experiences for her students that they are able to determine how they’d personally like to express their learning from each lesson—book report, song, art work, or even interpretive dance.
Unfortunately, we can’t all send our kids to expensive private schools that put this much emphasis on personalized learning. One of the most maddening things for any parent with children in the public-school system is the issue of standardized testing. As all parents and teachers know, all children have different ways of learning—visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc. New digital transformation trends in technology are going to make it easier for students of different learning types to learn in the way most appropriate to them, be it through interactive games, modeling tools, video production, etc. I can certainly see advanced analytics, AI and machine learning playing a role in analyzing individual student learning; although that may be a bit further off than next year.
With the right strategy upfront, the cloud can be a real game changer for workforce development healthcare providers – but it’s not a silver bullet. Any successful strategy depends on constant communication with staff and amending the deployment of cloud-based solutions until they meet an organization’s requirements.
Improved staff access to a broader area of applications hosted in cloud ecosystems, more computing power and greater mobility represent just some of the options available to healthcare providers to empower their workforce by moving to the cloud.
Dr. Saif Abed, founding partner of health IT consulting firm Abed Graham, said the key to a successful transition to the cloud is in fact not to only think about retraining after the fact, but to involve staff in advance from near the time that the decision is taken to make the shift.
"Engage workforce leaders, assess and benchmark existing processes and consult with frontline staff," he said. "Only then can you then be confident that you will have developed the optimal processes for staff to engage with once you have gone live."
He noted workforce development can mean many things but often it’s about opportunity and flexibility.
"Moving to the cloud creates new opportunities for people in the workforce to explore new initiatives and innovations at their disposal which can ultimately benefit their organization," Dr. Abed explained. "Beyond that though, the cloud can unlock agility and mobility, giving staff more options in how conduct their activities which can lead to more efficient outcomes."
He said leaders must engage staff leadership from key groups at the planning stage and ideally, involve them in decision-making committees.
"That’s the only way to identify both expected and unexpected concerns and to get ahead of them," Dr. Abed explained. "Concerns about skill sets, retraining, outsourcing, security and more can all be addressed if positive, constructive communication is established early."
Training is Key, says CIO
BJ Moore, executive vice president and chief information officer for Providence St. Joseph Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, said it is critical to provide hands on training with staff before a cloud deployment.
He said this should be done with the help of a "highly qualified and seasoned" strategic partner during the initial deployments, then transitioning responsibilities from a partner to the team as they build confidence and competency.
"After getting over the resistance to moving to the cloud, the loss in a skill set built over decades, I find teams embracing the cloud, being reinvigorated to build and learn more marketable skills," Moore said. "Cloud provides the commodity components like storage and computing power, allowing the workforce to focus on more value-add components.
He named security, system and application architecture, business continuity and recovery and fault tolerance as areas where cloud computing could be of extensive use for providers.
"The provider workforce will shift extensively in the journey to the cloud, and there will need to be a surge in investment to retrain the workforce to build the new capabilities for a cloud environment," Moore said.
"This retraining and doubling down in investing in people, tools, and processes may be a once in a two-to-three-decade event--equivalent to the last major wave in the 1990’s of moving to client/server."
By Nathan Eddy
July 29, 2019
Healthcare IT News
