Talis Clinical

Healthcare Technology Firm Launches New Perioperative Solution on Microsoft Azure

Talis Clinical wanted to make an innovative anesthesia information management system more widely available, so it redesigned the application to run in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. Called ACG-Anesthesia, the patient-centric solution provides centralized, automated visibility into patient risk factors and changing physiologic conditions from the decision to perform surgery through recovery.

In addition, built-in advanced clinical guidance and evidence-based care protocols empower physicians to more effectively manage all phases of perioperative care.

Making healthcare smarter

Sharing data quickly and accurately across multiple processes is important for all businesses, but nowhere is it more critical than in a hospital setting where the right information at the right time can mean the difference between life and death. Among the most critical events in patient care is the intraoperative episode, where the anesthesia care team must simultaneously monitor and react to multiple physiological parameters.

To address those challenges, an application was developed and implemented at Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic that integrates data from patient monitors, medical devices, and electronic health records (EHR) to provide centralized insight and multiparameter decision support. The anesthesia system was already being used in more than 270 operating rooms when the development team and an experienced medical entrepreneur decided to establish a new firm called Talis Clinical and offer the solution to other healthcare organizations.

Talis immediately began expanding the scope of the anesthesia system to include preoperative and postoperative events. In addition to improving patient care and safety, the extended solution would help healthcare providers get more value from the electronic health records (EHR) systems that many organizations had installed and augmented to satisfy recent regulations. Gary Colister, Chief Executive Officer of Talis, explains, “EHR technology alone does not provide the level of vigilance needed in perioperative care; it mostly enables the clinical team to record what happens.”

Moving to the cloud

Talis spent a year looking at an array of cloud platforms from specialized medical platforms to large commercial vendors. The new company decided that Microsoft Azure was the best choice for commercializing its application. “We went through all of these evaluations, and then we actually realized that we’re a Microsoft shop, with all of our technology built on a Microsoft platform,” says Colister. “We’re also moving very fast, and we needed to make sure that not only the individual pieces of software we deployed had the necessary robustness, but that our cloud partner had a deep awareness of our technology stack. It really came down to that support.”

Using the Microsoft Visual Studio development system, including Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Talis redesigned its anesthesiology solution to run in the cloud on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. The highly scalable, flexible environment provides a range of benefits, including easy integration with virtually any endpoint including diverse EHRs and medical devices. On the back end, Talis gained similar advantages, including support for its databases, which ran on Linux operating systems.

The solution, called ACG-Anesthesia, continuously collects patient data such as heart rate and blood pressure, and provides real-time, clinical views of specific patient conditions in multiple rooms. It also includes electronic case summaries and hand-off checklists so that comprehensive information can be shared efficiently with all members of a medical team. ACG-Anesthesia automatically pulls data from Talis clinical products, medical devices, EHRs, lab systems, pharmacies, and more.

In the operating room, the anesthesia care team uses an intuitive touchscreen to access and record information. Elsewhere, the supervising physician can use a mobile device to remotely monitor multiple rooms staffed by nurses or other members of the care team. In addition to providing a way to monitor patient health through a central interface, the solution pushes real-time alerts to devices including tablets and smartphones. It can be customized for a wide range of scenarios, including general, cardiac, and pediatric care.

Built-in clinical guidance supports complex decisions by calculating multiple parameters and events. As a result, the solution can alert caregivers to potential adverse conditions and reactions. And besides providing operational and clinical guidance at the point of care, ACG-Anesthesia helps hospitals collect and report data required by healthcare reform acts and other regulations.

Talis is also migrating other clinical products to the cloud, including a portal that establishes and measures protocols for preoperative testing and image-based, documentation technology that is used for assessment before anesthesia is administered. Both products are already integrated with ACG-Anesthesia. Brought to market in just two years, the suite is available across North America.

Improving healthcare

By taking advantage of Microsoft Azure, Talis Clinical can help medical organizations throughout North America improve patient care and safety at all stages of treatment and recovery.

Provides better support for innovation

With the Microsoft cloud, Talis was able to launch an innovative product that can help hospitals improve performance. “We have determined that Microsoft Azure can help us serve clients better than other traditional platforms,” says Colister. “We want our clients to feel like we can deliver the highest level of service that they expect. To be able to provide insights that help clinicians be more vigilant and at the same time produce legal documentation for compliance—that’s a big achievement in our space.”

Improves patient outcome

By providing timely, relevant data through remote apps and devices, Talis can help clinicians improve patient care. “The perioperative surgical care model is being studied at a lot of prominent medical centers around the country, and it emphasizes continuity and measuring patient information from the preop to surgery, subsequent physical therapy, and beyond discharge” says Karen Alexander, Vice President of Business Intelligence at Talis Clinical. “With Microsoft Azure, we can build the technology to implement this new care model and improve patient outcomes.”

Increases clinical efficiency

Talis is also improving workflow for hospital staff, which frees up valuable time where it matters most. “We’re talking to clinicians who tell us that our product saves them an hour each day in documentation, and it also reduces downtime because it’s more accurate,” Colister says. “With Microsoft technology, we’re creating solutions that make physicians more productive so that they can take better care of patients.”

Source: https://customers.microsoft.com

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An Overview on how to Create Advanced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Reports using Microsoft Excel, Power Query and OData endpoint

By Ben Ward, Applications Analyst, MCTS, MCP, MS

Due to the cloud based nature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, end users are not granted access to the backend SQL database (for a good reason which I will not go into now. Trust me, it’s long and pretty boring). This restriction to the SQL database makes pulling extensive reports a little more difficult than first thought. However, the good folks at Microsoft have provided an OData endpoint to be used with other products to allow extensive reports to be created. An OData endpoint is basically a URL for users to reference to access their data without permissions to manipulate the data with the SQL database. This ensures the data remains untouched inside the SQL database but users can download and access the data for other uses such as reporting.

Here is the high-level overview of how OData endpoints can be used:

The following example can be used to access your Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online OData endpoint:
[Your Organization Root URL]/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc

Power Query is highly recommended to access Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online OData endpoints. More information on
Power Query can be found here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-Microsoft-Power-Query-for-Excel-6e92e2f4-2079-4e1f-bad5-89f6269cd605

Once the OData endpoint has been referenced in Power Query, select the entities where the desire data resides and start editing the tables to fit your business needs. If you are familiar with SQL databases, Power Query editor will be very easy to use.
Note: Microsoft Visual Studio can also be used to access OData endpoints and create tables, which will be covered in another post.

About the author:

Ben has worked at Managed Solution for over two years and is currently working on CRM customization and administration, Microsoft SharePoint integration and customization as well as Business Intelligence analytics including SQL reporting. Ben is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Specialist and has six Dynamic CRM certifications.

Other Blog Posts by Ben Ward:

• An Overview on how to Create Advanced Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Reports using Microsoft Excel, Power Query and OData endpoint

• How to add a Lead to Dynamics CRM

• What is a CRM? Part 2

• What is a CRM? Part 1

• Power BI to gather market insights

Cloud Platform Release Announcements for October 14, 2015

By Cloud Platform Team as written on http://blogs.technet.com

In today’s mobile first, cloud first world, Microsoft provides the technologies and tools to enable enterprises to embrace a cloud culture. Our differentiated innovations, comprehensive mobile solutions and developer tools help all of our customers realize the true potential of the cloud first era.

You expect cloud-speed innovation from us, and we’re delivering across the breadth of our Cloud Platform product portfolio. Below is a consolidated list of our latest releases to help you stay current, with links to additional details if you’d like more information. In this update:
•Azure SQL Database Security
•Azure SQL Database full text search generally available
•New Power BI Content Packs for Azure Audit Logs and Microsoft Dynamics NAV generally available
•Azure Backup supports application workloads generally available
•ASR integrates with SQL AlwaysOn public review
•Azure Premium Storage generally available in additional regions: US Central and EU North
•OMS Log Analytics Mobile Apps generally available
•Azure Active Directory Domain Services in public preview
•General availability of Azure RMS Document Tracking, MFA support for RMS Sharing app on all platforms and RMS support for Outlook on Android
•Azure Active Directory Application Proxy: Remote Desktop publishing and non-MS apps SSO public preview
•System Center Configuration Manager technical preview 3 update 2
•Azure Government Continues Momentum to Meet Government Customer Challenges

Azure SQL Database Security

Today we are announcing how Azure SQL Database provides unparalleled data security in the cloud with Always Encrypted. From the smallest startup to the largest enterprise, data security is an increasingly top of mind concern for all businesses, especially as they continue to target the cloud for both new and existing applications. As you transform your business and move to the cloud, Azure SQL Database offers a set of built-in, world class features so you can secure your data from malicious and unauthorized users. You can choose from a portfolio of easy-to-use features designed to help you quickly protect your data and confidently build secure applications within Azure. Key features include: SQL Database support for Azure Active Directory authentication, Row-Level Security, dynamic data masking, transparent data encryption and Always Encrypted.

Azure SQL Database full text search generally available

For applications that manage and store character-based data in Azure SQL Database, Full-Text Search provides fast, rich search functionality integrated into the database platform. In addition to preview capabilities, we enhanced the feature with support for .xml doc types and self-service diagnostic experience through XEvents. Users can now easily troubleshoot and will have visibility into issues like indexing errors or unsupported doc types. This will optimize even further the search experience and bringing it closer to on-premises SQL Server capabilities. Full-Text Search is available in all service tiers in Azure SQL Database V12 through familiar TSQL syntax and Microsoft SQL Server tools.

New Power BI Content Packs for Azure Audit Logs and Microsoft Dynamics NAV generally available

Power BI continues to make it easier for users to connect to their data, providing pre-built solutions for popular services as part of the experience. This month we added content packs for Azure Audit Logs and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Azure Audit Logs allows you to view control-plane operational logs in your Azure subscription. The Power BI Azure Audit Logs content pack can help you easily analyze and visualize the wealth of information contained in these logs. The content pack allows you to connect to your data and begin to discover insights with the out-of-the box dashboard and reports.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a business management solution for small to medium organizations. It offers customers a full solution for their business with greater control over their financials and business processes. The Power BI content pack provides out-of-box reports for Dynamics NAV users, such as sales and profit, opportunities pipeline, profitability and more. These metrics are organized on a dashboard that can be fully customized, allowing you to easily connect and immediately start exploring your data.

Subscribers to these supported services can now quickly connect to their account from Power BI and see their data through live dashboards and interactive reports that have been pre-built for them. Getting started with data visualization and analysis has never been easier, for additional information visit the Power BI blog.

Azure Backup supports application workloads generally available

Azure Backup can now backup your on-premises application workloads including SQL, Hyper-V VMs, SharePoint and Exchange. You can back up your applications to a local disk or to Azure, allowing you to eliminate local tape libraries, and leverage the unlimited storage capability of Azure. In addition, you can manage all of your on-premises backups from a single user interface.

Azure Backup continues to support backing up your production IaaS VMs in Azure, and protect Windows Clients data, and shared Files and Folders.

Azure backup is now available as part of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite – the all-in-one IT management solution for Windows or Linux, across on-premises or any cloud environments.

Check out the Azure Backup web page for more details on these new features and capabilities.

ASR integrates with SQL AlwaysOn public review

In public preview: Azure Site Recovery now provides native support for SQL AlwaysOn. SQL Availability Groups can be added to an ASR Recovery Plan along with virtual machines. All capabilities of ASR Recovery Plans including sequencing, scripting, and manual actions can be leveraged to orchestrate the failover of a multi-tier application that uses an SQL database, configured with AlwaysOn replication.

Azure Site Recovery is now available through the Microsoft Operations Management Suite – the all-in-one IT management solution for Windows or Linux, across on-premises or any cloud environments.

The Azure Site Recovery web page will give you more details about these new features and capabilities.

Azure Premium Storage generally available in additional regions: US Central and EU North

Azure Premium Storage is a solid-state drive (SSD)–based storage solution designed to support I/O-intensive workloads. With Premium Storage, you can add up to 32 TB of persistent storage per virtual machine (VM), with more than 64,000 IOPS per VM and extremely low latencies for read operations. Offering a service-level agreement (SLA) for 99.9 percent availability, Premium Storage is now available in the US Central - DM and EU North - DB regions, as well as the previously announced regions.

OMS Log Analytics Mobile Apps generally available

Microsoft Operations Management suite provides management of any platform, anywhere from any devices, anytime. Starting today, customers can access their personalized dashboards, solutions and search queries on the go, identify and troubleshoot IT operational issues at the touch of fingertips using the Microsoft Operations Management suite mobile app for Windows Phone, iOS, and Android. Visit the Microsoft Operations Management Suite mobile app website here to download and install the apps, and gain insights on the move anytime.

Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1 RTM

This update, which is what you’ll get with a new installation, fixes a bug in Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1 where Visual Studio failed to create a package for a UWP app that uses a WinRT component. You can find additional information and installation instructions in Generating Store associated package fails for a UWP application with a WinRT component (.winmd).

Azure Active Directory Domain Services in public preview

Azure Active Directory Domain Services provide scalable, high-performance, managed domain services such as domain-join, LDAP, Kerberos, Windows Integrated Authentication and Group Policy support. With the click of a button, administrators can enable managed domain services for virtual machines and directory-aware applications deployed in Azure Infrastructure Services. By maintaining compatibility with Windows Server Active Directory, Azure AD Domain Services provide an easy way to migrate traditional on-premises applications to the cloud. For more details please visit the Azure Active Directory Domain Services website.

General availability of Azure RMS Document Tracking, MFA support for RMS Sharing app on all platforms and RMS support for Outlook on Android

Document Tracking, a feature of Microsoft Azure Rights Management will be generally available starting October 14, 2015. This feature enables document owners to track activities on sensitive files that they share with others. Activities such as recipients opening the files, unauthorized users being denied access to the files and the latest state of the files can be viewed on a web hosted site. With a single click, the document owner can also revoke access to a shared file. This feature will be available as a part of the Azure Rights Management Premium subscription or the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite or Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Suite.

We’re also excited to announce that the RMS Sharing app on Windows desktop, iOS, Android, OSX, and Window Phone will now support your current Multi-Factor Authentication investments such as Azure MFA, Smart Cards or other MFA solutions as an option to require additional authentication to open rights protected documents.

Finally, we’re happy to announce RMS support for Outlook on Android, so you can now read and reply to RMS protected emails on Android devices. Learn more about all these new features and more on The RMS Blog.

Azure Active Directory Application Proxy: Remote Desktop publishing and non-MS apps SSO public preview

Azure Active Directory Application Proxy provides remote access and single-sign on for many types of on-premises web applications side by side with the thousands of SaaS applications that Azure Active Directory supports.

Now it expands its capabilities by providing single-sign on for even more types of web application including Remote Desktop, non-Windows applications and for applications hosted in cloud IaaS platforms. For more information, please read the documentation on Application Proxy.

System Center Configuration Manager technical preview 3 update 2

Today we are making available update 1510 for System Center Configuration Manager Technical Preview 3. This new update brings with it an early view of the new Windows 10 Servicing node, which enables you to view the state of Windows as a service in your environment, create flexible servicing plans to form deployment rings, and view alerts when Windows 10 clients are near end of support for their build of Current Branch or Current Branch for Business.

Azure Government continues momentum to meet government customer challenges

Announcing Azure Government’s five new capabilities and how Government agencies and partners are leveraging our trusted cloud to experience breakthrough ways of delivering hybrid applications, and business continuity.

On October 14, 2015, Tom Keane Partner Director, Program Management of Microsoft Azure announced further momentum with new capabilities on Microsoft Azure Government that help customers leverage the cloud to deliver hybrid applications and business continuity. They released five new capabilities for Azure Government customers:
•Azure Backup
•Azure ExpressRoute
•Azure Resource Manager
•Azure Redis Cache
•Azure Automation

Since our launch ten months ago, hundreds of government customers in state and local, federal civilian and defense, plus over a hundred solution partners with dedicated government practices, have adopted Azure Government and these five new capabilities to expand on the innovation available to support their cloud requirements. This combination of new services combined with the largest set of compliance certifications in the industry give customers and partners the ability to do amazing things with Azure government. As said by one of our customers:

“The fact that Microsoft contractually committed to CJIS compliance by signing the FBI’s CJIS Security Addendum and having their employees background-checked by California DOJ helped give the LAPD the confidence that we could begin to leverage Azure Government for our most critical, sensitive workloads,” says Sanjoy Datta, information security officer, LAPD. “It is rare that vendors, on their own initiative, take the trouble to comply with the multiple regulatory frameworks that law enforcement, as well as all state and local government agencies, are required to meet. Microsoft has exceeded the LAPD's expectations in this regard by taking on the difficult requirements of the CJIS regulatory regime and meeting them head-on.”

Highlighting another customer success story of Azure Government and our compliance investments, Scott Shainman, president of Getac North America, worked with the Memphis Police Department to build a secure, scalable, mission-critical police video solution:

"The partnership of Getac's Veretos in-car video system and the Azure Government Cloud allows our customers to have the best secure data management and mobile video capture. Memphis Police Department is pursuing robust data driven policing and saw that Azure Government provides a contractual commitment to the CJIS Security Policy and easy integration with SQL Server - which the Getac software runs on - it gave them the assurance that this was the best solution for them," said Shainman.

Here are more details on the new capabilities we are announcing today for Azure Government:

Azure Backup

Azure Backup delivers an efficient and secure way for you to protect on-premises and on-cloud assets to Azure, and benefits from Azure Government’s physical isolation and support from cleared U.S. persons. Benefits include:
•Back-up for various workloads like SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, Hyper-V VM, Windows Servers and Windows Clients.
•Data encryption before it leaves your premises. This encrypted backup data is transmitted securely using HTTPS protocol and stored in an encrypted manner in the Azure Government cloud.
•Data is stored in highly resilient storage, up to six copies in two Azure Government cloud datacenters, geographically distributed more than 500 hundred miles apart providing true geographic redundancy and support for the continuity of your business.

Azure ExpressRoute

With Azure ExpressRoute you can create private, high-throughput connections between Azure Government datacenters and your existing infrastructure. Azure Government ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet, and they offer more reliability, faster speeds, lower latencies, and higher security than typical connections over the Internet. What this means to you:
•A physically separate instance of ExpressRoute deployed specifically for Azure Government. This means that we have extended our Government cloud commitments from our datacenter, to neutral edge locations to provide the predictable performance and higher throughput of ExpressRoute, combined with the physical isolation that United States government customers demand.
•Initial Azure Government ExpressRoute Meet-Me sites are in Washington DC and Chicago vicinities. These locations provide dedicated connectivity to both U.S. Gov. Iowa and U.S. Gov. Virginia datacenters.

Azure Resource Manager (preview)

Azure Resource Manager allows you to simplify how you manage your app resources, including being able to:
•Deploy and update a group of resources, repeatedly.
•Manage permissions on a group of resources.
•Visualize a group of resources in a logical view, including monitoring or billing.
•Define the infrastructure and dependencies for your app in a single declarative template.

Azure Redis Cache (preview)

Azure Redis Cache provides access to a secured, dedicated Redis cache, managed by Microsoft. Accessible from any application within Azure Government, Azure Redis Cache helps your application become more responsive even as user load increases by leveraging the low latency, high-throughput capabilities of the Redis engine.

Azure Automation (preview)

With Azure Automation, you can automate frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks. You can also:
•Create, monitor, manage, and deploy resources in Azure Government using runbooks, based upon Windows PowerShell workflows.
•Use Automation runbooks, which work with the Web Apps feature in Azure App Service, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Microsoft SQL Server, and other popular Azure services, with any service offering public Internet application programming interfaces (APIs).
•Create checkpoints to resume your workflow after unexpected errors, crashes and network issues.

Looking to the future

We are listening to you and continue to regularly expand the set of capabilities in Azure Government.

--Tom

9 Myths About Moving to the Cloud

1. Office 365 is just Office tools in the cloud, and I can only use it online.

2. If our data moves to the cloud, our business will no longer have control over our technology.

3. Keeping data on-premises is safer than in the cloud.

4. I have to move everything to the cloud; it is an all-or-nothing scenario.

5. Cloud migration is too much for my business to handle.

6. Corporate spies, cyberthieves, and governments will have access to my data if it is in the cloud.

7. Skype and Skype for Business are one and the same.

8. Email isn’t any simpler in the cloud.

9. Continuously updating Office 365 will break my critical business applications.

 

Cloud.gov to give agencies a PaaS

By Amanda Ziadeh as written on Gcn.com

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Agencies will soon have a faster and easier way to develop, run, and manage web applications without the complexity and cost of building and maintaining infrastructure.

Cloud.gov, a joint project of the U.S. Digital Services and the General Services Administration’s 18F agile development shop, will be a platform-as-a-service option that gives agencies an already-stable infrastructure and lessen the burden on IT departments.

According to Noah Kunin, 18F's director of delivery architecture and infrastructure services, the goal with this project was to “bureaucracy hack” a way to the cloud.

When agencies build a new system or implement new technology, they must comply with a long checklist of federal regulations, acts and schedules. Kunin, who discussed Cloud.gov at the Code for America Summit on Oct. 1, told the audience he found he had to read through 4,006 pages of regulatory guidance.

The lengthy development process also affects planning. “In order to create rational plans around technology, we have to have some idea of what our cycle time for our innovations are,” Kunin said. A minor release around new technology, Kunin calculated, would take six to 14 months. However, difficulties along the way with the checklist of compliances could heavily prolong delivery and cause delays.

To fix this process before shipping the final product, Kunin and his team created a new Cloud.gov back-end service. Launching “very soon,” according to Kunin, the platform is a pre-approved PaaS for government, built as a true production cloud that gives agencies a ready-to-use infrastructure upon which to build.

When Cloud.Gov debuts, Kunin said, agencies will not have to wait for approvals or juggle requests when creating applications. In the meantime, users can access Cloud.18F.gov to learn more, receive updates and explore the service’s capabilities.

Other projects that USDS and 18F announced at the summit include an improved, scalable login system for HealthCare.gov, a revamped electronic healthcare information network for the Department of Veterans Affairs, a replacement for VA's outdated Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System, and a preview of the Federal Election Commission's efforts to better consolidate and share campaign finance data online.

As written on Microsoft.com on September 8, 2015 by Takeshi Numoto - Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Microsoft

I’m pleased to announce today that Microsoft has acquired Adallom, an innovator in cloud security and a leader in helping customers protect their critical assets across cloud applications. This acquisition is the latest example of Microsoft’s commitment to delivering innovative identity and security capabilities to our customers, across both on-premises and multiple clouds.

With more frequent and advanced cybersecurity attacks continuing to make headlines, customer concerns around security remain top of mind. These concerns pose real challenges for IT, who are charged with protecting company data in this rapidly evolving mobile-first, cloud-first world. In this world, identity is a critical control plane for managing and protecting access to applications and data.

Adallom expands on Microsoft’s existing identity assets, and delivers a cloud access security broker, to give customers visibility and control over application access as well as their critical company data stored across cloud services. Adallom works with popular cloud applications including Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, ServiceNow, Ariba, and of course Office 365. As a cloud-delivered, security-as-a-service solution, Adallom will complement existing offerings that Microsoft makes available today as part of Office 365 and the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), including our recent Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics release.

Adallom, cofounded in 2012 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik, has assembled a world-class team with a dedicated focus on making it easier to enhance data security in the cloud. The team will continue to evolve, build technology, sell solutions and work with customers as we complete the integration into Microsoft.

Once again, we are thrilled to welcome the Adallom team into the Microsoft family. Advanced threats and cybercrime will persist in this mobile-first, cloud-first era, but at Microsoft we remain committed to helping our customers protect their data with new and innovative identity and security capabilities. We encourage our customers to evaluate and use this offering starting today, to learn more visit http://www.adallom.com.

PTI presents this executive summary that outlines the results of the State of City and County IT 2015: The IT Organization and Operations national survey.

In August, 2015 local government technology executives representing cities and counties of all sizes were asked to respond to the survey.

Highlights from the 2015 survey:

• 47% of the IT executives who responded to the survey stated that their local government IT department budgets will remain the same over the next year.

• How much value does "Big Data" have for local government operations? 31% of survey participants responded that Big Data would become increasingly important (up from 27% in 2014 and 18% in 2013).

• New to the survey in 2015 - Cloud Adoption - where 69% of all respondents stated that the cloud is important to their disaster recovery and COOP operations.

( Download the Survey Report )

Source: http://www.pti.org