Technically Speaking

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel session last week at Symantec’s Annual Government Symposium titled “Data Governance: Foundation for IT Success.” Panelists included Doug Matthews, Vice President of Information Availability Products for Veritas; Damon Davis, Director for the Health Data Initiative, Department of Health and Human Services; and Ryan Swann, Director of Data Analytics

Autodesk® Infrastructure Design Suite is a comprehensive software solution that provides a BIM for Infrastructure workflow to help you gain more accurate, accessible, and actionable insight throughout the lifecycle of your transportation, land, utility, and water projects. In the 2016 release, Infrastructure Design Suite sees many new updates.  Check out some of the updates here.

Cloud security has long been a concern for government agencies, but FedRAMP, now a 3+ year old program, has changed the way cloud providers think about cloud security standards and is forging an accelerated path for the adoption of secure cloud solutions through reuse of assessments and authorizations. FedRAMP’s goal is simple – to provide a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products.

This is a webinar to give you an overview on how to setup an Autodesk Network Licensing Manager from start to finish. It’s great for the CAD users that only address license server setup once a year and for the IT pros, we will show and highlight some tips and tricks as well.

We all suspected that the heavy presence of legacy technology was holding government back from truly digitizing their operations, but now data confirms it. A new report by Gartner – the 2015 CIO Agenda – which surveyed over 2,800 businesses worldwide and includes responses from 343 government CIOs finds that legacy modernization is problematic:

10 years ago we had the genesis of an idea - to start a publication that catered exclusively to an under-served sector - government CAD users. Filled with tips, ideas, insights and examples of CAD and digital design at work in government, Acronym Magazine was first published in 2005. Now 10 years later, we've gone completely digital and are still the ONLY blog that addresses the needs of public-sector CAD users.