Information technology is one of the few areas where California does provide detailed guidance for managing intellectual privacy. More than a decade ago, the Department of General Services issued IT standard contract language in which "the contractor owns the intellectual property but the state has a perpetual, royalty‑free license to it."
Under the terms of the settlement, SAP will pay the State Controller's Office $59 million in cash and also abandon its claims against the State Controller's Office amounting to about $23 million. The settlement stipulates that the State Controller's Office and SAP each do not admit any liability or fault. The agreement avoids a civil court trial that was scheduled to being next week in Sacramento.
Conceived in 2011, the new testing system was going to procure a commercial off-the-shelf product. But the project was canceled in February and the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training will instead make enhancements to a legacy system.
Mayor Kevin Johnson announced new initiatives from Sacramento's city government to support business creation, job growth and innovation as dozens of local coders gathered Saturday at The Urban Hive co-working space in Midtown to participate in the National Day of Civic Hacking.
Several bills that would expand or create technology systems in California state government cleared their house of origin this week in the state Legislature. They still must win approval from either the Assembly or Senate before moving to the governor's desk. Here are five pieces of legislation Techwire is following.
As of the end of 2014, California licensed about 2,000 payday lender locations. The licensees made 12.4 million transactions and served 1.8 million customers, according to a Department of Business Oversight report. Nearly $3.4 billion was processed in those transactions.
The Resources Agency has come up with a new model that is horizontal rather than vertical, and puts equal measure on operations, engineering, services and innovation.
The Secretary of State's Office is proposing to restart an IT project called Business Connect that will enable businesses to submit filings and retrieve records online. Lawmakers last week voted 4-0 to approve $1.8 million toward the rebuild of the antiquated online campaign and lobbying database known as Cal-Access.
Scrutiny coming from all directions — the State Auditor, the Legislature, the agencies and departments themselves — might motivate the state of California to make some changes and investments.
Ramos says he's working with Silicon Valley companies that have keyed in on the commercial sector and are interested in pursuing business opportunities in government.
The civil court trial for California's suspended payroll system modernization project is scheduled to begin on June 13. After the trial's outcome is resolved later this year, state officials want to identify a new approach to restart the project.
The board of California’s health benefits exchange has approved Covered California and its state partners to work on activities supporting the re-procurement of the $864 million CalHEERS system.
The centralized system will be web-enabled and provide enhanced reporting capabilities and tracking designed to reduce customer wait times, according to the Department of Technology.
California Natural Resources Agency IT director Tim Garza and his management team on Tuesday discussed in-depth a wide range of projects, initiatives and goals that are in flight at the agency and its 33 organizations.
The State Treasurer's Office announced Friday it has selected Sacramento-based Natoma Technologies to provide implementation services for the Debt Management System.
The project's executive partner, Miriam Barcellona Ingenito, told a State Senate budget subcommittee on Thursday that FI$Cal is in a transition period right now, fulfilling departmental functions simultaneously alongside typical IT project functions, such as design and development.
California's Employment Development Department will soon begin work on an IT modernization project that will integrate the collections and accounting systems the department uses to ensure recipients of unemployment and disability insurance pay the state back if they receive overpayments.
California is replacing one of the lengthiest paper-based forms in all of government, perhaps the world, with a Web-based solution its designers say is like a more sophisticated version of TurboTax.
The private group has accumulated 350 participants so far, and could be worth emulating for the state of California, which has discussed how to develop a similar type of network to cultivate staff development and interdepartmental collaboration.
Kim told the Rules Committee on Wednesday that he wants to focus on efficiency and agility at the Department of General Services, and take a "data-informed approach" to prioritize what the department does.
The California Public Utilities Commission is proposing to add two dozen more personnel to its Information Technology Services Branch to keep up with an increasing workload that includes several new technology projects in the pipeline.
The Office of Systems Integration is looking for additional resources as it moves toward procuring a new system integrator for the maintenance and operation of the Case Management Information and Payrolling System (CMIPS II).
Called the County Expense Claim Reporting Information System (CECRIS), the IT modernization was originally approved in 2007, but was put on hold in 2014 to allow the Department of Social Services to re-evaluate the project. The new system will replace two existing legacy systems, the County Expense Claim (CEC) and County Assistance Claim (CA 800) systems.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has to make its case management system, called "Houdini," vanish just five years after it was launched.
The project, which is centered on the Safer Consumer Products Information Management System (CalSAFER), is currently on schedule and will add new features in early 2017.
