CSU consolidated its financial management processes and systems within its PeopleSoft Financial Management system in 2012 and the university is now working toward consolidating human resources functions. Two months ago CSU issued an RFP seek an enterprise learning platform and services that could be utilized by all campuses.
The closing ceremony for the State Water Board's 2016 Data Innovation Challenge will be held on April 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Sacramento.
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) this week is scheduled to consider a proposal to authorize release of an RFP for a regional bike share system operator and bike share equipment.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is seeking proposals from interested firms to sell, install and implement Kofax Analytics for Capture and to assist the department in successfully configuring, testing and deploying the platform.
The California Department of Technology anticipates it will, during the next few months, release bid invitations seeking providers for cloud-based backup recovery services, e-signatures and satellite voice services.
The San Francisco government intends to create a pre-qualified list of firms from which city departments may select on an as-needed basis for custom Drupal development services.
Los Angeles County this week made public a $28.5 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2016-17. The 1,000-page document provides a window into the county's technology spending and ongoing and proposed IT projects.
California Telehealth Network President and CEO Eric Brown and Emergency Call and Tracking System (ECaTS) have been named the California State Fair's 2016 Technology Champions.
Two security bills — one on ransomware criminal penalties, another on breach response plans — authored by State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, cleared Senate committees on Tuesday. A smartphone decryption bill was defeated.
The state of California and system integrator Xerox have agreed to stop development of a replacement for the California Medicaid Management Information System (CA-MMIS), the Department of Health Care Services announced in an online posting on Monday.
The state Office of Technology Services is planning to increase the number of customer cabinets it can support at its Gold Camp Data Center, according to state documents.
The state of California will refresh CALNET 3 contracts for Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) Ethernet and Managed Internet Services, according to an April 7 announcement.
The Business Connect project was suspended in 2015 after the effort fell behind schedule. Planning for the initiative has now been redone, according to state documents, with a new project schedule, scope and proposed budget.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers on Thursday issued guidelines for states to plan for the threat of a cyberattack on critical infrastructure.
Propoint Technology will provide task and risk management, support database migration, provide project management support, assist in readying counties for the transition, support interface development and provide other support services on the project. The contract will last two years, with an optional eight-month extension, and has a maximum total value of no more than $4.45 million, according to the bid documents.
California trimmed more than 1,400 pages from its procurement documents when it decided to switch to agile for the state's child welfare system modernization, according to a federal strike team that advised the move.
The California Department of Technology approved the project, called eFAST — eFiling Administration Support — in January. The $5.7 million effort will build a common platform for the CPUC's five business divisions to receive and manage filings electronically. Most of CPUC's filing processes currently are manual, according to the bid documents.
With two-thirds of the state budget relying on personal income tax, April is a critical month for those watching how much money the state collects for the General Fund.
The Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee will consider a proposal to develop a statewide cybersecurity plan, today at 1:30 pm at the State Capitol.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services is hiring for a Career Executive Appointment position that will serve as a technical authority and leader on the state's strategic direction for 911 and next-gen emergency communications.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System is planning two new systems with IT components: the Global Equity Portfolio Management System and the Total Fund Risk Management System.
The Sacramento City Council will be asked Tuesday to approve a contract extension with LexisNexis that provides two crime analysts and analytics software to the city.
More than 560,000 Californians have used the Secretary of State’s Online Voter Registration site to register to vote or update their registration information during the first quarter of 2016, officials recently announced.
A staff analysis from the commission says the new rule-making would save hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption. Computers, monitors and displays use about 5 percent of California’s electricity.
The Board of Equalization has hired Chris Caietti as its chief technology officer. Caietti previously was the project director of the CalSTRS Pension Solution Project.
The local tech startup competition, dubbed "Capitalize," has narrowed a field of 32 companies down to the four finalists: Barobo, California Safe Soil, Quicklegal and ViVita Technologies.
The State Water Resources Control Board's Office of Information Management and Analysis is hosting a "coffee and conversation" gathering on Friday April 1 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the CalEPA headquarters building in downtown Sacramento.
Human resources software is one vertical of several planned for the Department of Technology's Vendor Hosted Subscription Services (VHSS) model that will make enterprise-level solutions available to multiple state agencies and departments.
