Techwire is pleased to welcome Anaplan to the Techwire family. Anaplan, a cloud-native enterprise software-as-a-service company, helps organizations worldwide coordinate performance and execute digital transformation. Its platform, which is powered by the proprietary Hyperblock® technology, links teams, systems and insight to activate the ability to adapt to change and transform operations. The state of California Office of Systems Integration is among the users of Anaplan’s software, which lets clients build and model through a single interface. The San Francisco-based company has more than 175 partners and more than 1,600 customers globally. For more information, visit anaplan.com.
The state offers four academies – ITLA as well as the Project Management Leadership Academy, the Digital Services Innovation Academy and the Information Security Leadership Academy.
“For the county, digital transformation represents the strategic position of integrating innovative technologies and approaches across the organization to modernize IT and improve the end-user experience, which improves the services provided to the public,” says Larry Ainsworth, chief information officer for San Bernardino County.
“Technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. We are navigating another technology transformation, requiring us to move past some of our previous practices and integrate and support technology as a cross-functional business process,” says Steve Grogan, chief information officer and chief of the Office of Information Services at the state of California Air Resources Board.
Among other things, the event will show business representatives how to submit successful proposals, proposal tips and deficiencies; how to register to do business with the county; and how to capitalize on regional contracting opportunities.
Techwire is pleased to welcome NICE InContact to the Techwire family. Sandy, Utah-based NICE InContact is a leader in providing cloud and on-prem enterprise software that enables organizations to make educated decisions based on advanced analysis of structured and unstructured data. NICE’S CXone, believed to be the first true cloud contact center solution to receive FedRAMP Authorization to Operate, merges best-in-class customer analytics, automation and artificial intelligence on an open cloud foundation. More than 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries — more than 85 of them being Fortune 100 companies — use NICE solutions. For more information, visit niceincontact.com or contact Amy Wharton.
“When we consider that compute translates to data transformation and exchange and better insights to make decisions — information technologies are the fundamental enablers of our present and future, and the end of growth is still not in sight,” says Imre Kabai, chief information officer for Santa Clara County.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Optiv to the Techwire family. Denver-based Optiv is the biggest pure-play provider of cybersecurity solutions in North America. Its diverse staff helps businesses, governments and educational institutions plan, build and run security solutions successfully. The security solutions integrator’s team of former CISOs, security technologists and operations experts brings its years of experience to bear in delivering solutions that help clients maximize the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs. One such client, a private university in California, worked with Optiv to do an objective third-party security assessment of its IT network that helped identify vulnerabilities related to vendor technologies that were of low to medium criticality. For more information, visit optiv.com.
Techwire is pleased to welcome AvePoint to the Techwire family. More than 16,000 companies and 7 million SharePoint and Office 365 users around the world use AvePoint software and services for data migration, management and protection in the cloud and in on-prem and hybrid environments. AvePoint, a five-time winner of the Global Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, offers the only full suite of software-as-a-service solutions to migrate, manage and protect data in Microsoft 365. Headquartered in Jersey City, N.J., AvePoint has been named to the Inc. 500|5000 six times; and to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ five times. For more information, visit avepoint.com or contact Justin Klise.
“We are focused on being a true business partner; we have to work side by side with our executives and peers if we’re going to move business forward. Because it’s all about moving the business forward and changing the program with technology,” says Catherine Lanzaro, CIO and deputy director of the Technology Services Division for the California Department of Child Support Services.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Hayden AI to the Techwire family. San Francisco-based Hayden AI Technologies Inc. was founded on the belief that by merging mobile sensors with artificial intelligence, it could help governments innovate on their transportation issues and make traffic flow simultaneously less dangerous and more efficient. Guided by its experts on machine learning, data science, transportation, and government sales, the company has developed the world’s first autonomous traffic enforcement platform. The platform wields sensor data with Digital Twin technology to simulate scenarios and create actionable insights capable of helping local traffic, fire, health, and code enforcement agencies operate more efficiently. For more information, visit hayden.ai.
The new software combines a huge database for verifying identity with AI-powered tools meant to comb them, looking for fraud and irregularities. And it’s found an early user in California, which was at the center of a massive unemployment insurance fraud scheme last year.
“I am results-focused, have higher than average expectations, and will work with anyone that is putting in the effort,” says Ventura County CIO Terry Theobald. “I believe in accountability in the sense those I work with and I are both accountable.”
“In IT, we understand the critical nature of our role to provide solutions for the problems that the business is trying to solve. Without truly understanding those problems and partnering with business to create the solutions, success is more difficult to achieve. The pandemic has really highlighted the importance of that partnership,” says Heather L. Pettit, chief information officer for the Judicial Council of California.
Techwire is pleased to welcome BM Associates to the Techwire family. Since 1998, Granite Bay-based BM Associates has delivered business process efficiencies and modernization for sustained growth and cost reduction to state of California public-sector entities and Fortune 500 companies across the nation. Its experienced team can assist in areas including cybersecurity, digital transformation, data visualization, legacy modernization, cloud migration and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system integration. State customers include the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the California Military Department, and the state departments of Developmental Services, Food and Agriculture, and Tax and Fee Administration. For more information, visit bmassociates.com or contact Senthil Muniappan.
Ideal candidates are public-sector employees with a vision for enterprise-wide thinking, strong potential for career advancement into executive or senior management positions, or aspiring information security officers with experience carrying out their organizations’ missions and visions.
Techwire is pleased to welcome BlackLine to the Techwire family. BlackLine’s cloud-based solutions and market-leading customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting processes, helping large state enterprises and small localities do accounting work better, faster, and with more control. More than 3,400 customers trust BlackLine to help them close faster with complete and accurate results. For more information, visit blackline.com or contact Patrick Carmody.
Following are the public-sector awardees from this week’s California Virtual Public Sector CIO Academy, the annual industry gathering of public- and private-sector technology stakeholders.
“I think from a transformational standpoint, the role of the CIO in probably any organization, but especially in government, is to find the right balance between maintaining the status quo and not chasing every new shiny object that comes along ... but at the same time, be very aware of how things are changing,” says Jon Walton, chief information officer for San Mateo County.
The California gov tech leaders’ work to change how services were accessed during the pandemic, while continuing ongoing modernizations, earned them their places among Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2021.
“STO is in the very early stage of digital transformation as many of our business processes are still paper-based. … Like many organizations during this time, we are all working in a very fluid environment that requires us to pivot quickly to meet the demand of the situation,” says David Duarte, chief information officer at the State Treasurer’s Office.
“I will be continuing a CHHS cybersecurity strategic assessment of all CHHS departments with a focus on moving towards a more coordinated/aligned approach across all CHHS departments and offices,” says Lloyd Indig, agency information security officer at the California Health and Human Services Agency.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Gartner to the Techwire family. One of the world’s top research and advisory companies and an S&P 500 member, Gartner provides vital insight, advice and tools to enable business and technology leaders to achieve mission-critical priorities. CIOs and senior IT leaders at corporations and government agencies, leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, supply chain and digital marketing professionals, and technology investors rely on Gartner, the partner to clients at more than 10,000 enterprises. For more information, visit gartner.com or contact Eugene M. Martinez.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Qlik Tech to the Techwire family. Qlik’s mission centers on empowering people in meaningful discoveries capable of driving real change. Its business intelligence solutions offer end-to-end, real-time data integration and an analytics cloud platform capable of closing any gaps between data, insights and action. The Pennsylvania-based company’s vision is for a data-literate world, where decision-making can be enhanced and problems solved via data and analytics. Qlik has more than 50,000 customers globally and works in more than 100 nations. For more information, visit qlik.com or contact Scott Morris, Field Sales Director, Public Sector, SLED WEST.
“We need to build on our successes achieved during the pandemic, continue to be flexible and further expand our technology capabilities and civic responsibilities in the challenging years ahead. Over the past year, we’ve given our residents stability due to our ability to go virtual in a short amount of time,” says Hong Sae, chief information officer for the city of Roseville.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Zerto to the Techwire family. Zerto enables customers to speed up their IT transformations via a single scalable platform for cloud data management and protection. The industry leader’s software-only platform moves past the risks of modernization and cloud adoption to provide constant data protection that brings together disaster recovery, backup and data mobility. Used by more than 8,000 customers around the world, Zerto’s technology powers offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure and many others. For more information, visit zerto.com or contact David Fernandez.
“When you look at contracting, the ability to piggyback on, whether it’s cloud contracts, data center, innovation, training, we really need to have a strong partnership with the states, and we want that badly,” said Los Angeles County Chief Information Officer Bill Kehoe.
“In my opinion, the value of digital transformation is most evident when we create meaningful efficiencies, increase transparency and improve the user experience. As with many agencies in the state, CALPIA is continually transforming. I do not anticipate a day where we say we are finished; only a day where we ask ourselves what we’re going to tackle next,” says Suzie Changus, CIO for the California Prison Industry Authority.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Yubico to the Techwire family. Palo Alto-based Yubico helps government and private-sector entities mitigate cybersecurity risk by securing access to critical business and customer data via high-assurance multifactor authentication with the YubiKey. The YubiKey offers strong hardware protection across multiple IT systems and online services. The company’s YubiHSM, a portable hardware security module, safeguards sensitive data in servers. Yubico is also a leading contributor to the FIDO2, WebAuthn and FIDO Universal 2nd Factor open authentication standards. For more information, visit yubico.com or contact Michael Santini, State and Local West lead.
Executive appointments and promotions, a large COVID-19 contract award, and a couple of state spending roundups were among the stories that made headlines last week in Techwire.
