The Information Technology Services fiscal year 2025 budget is $70.2 million, and the county continues to infuse tech, cloud and mobile solutions across departments.
Panelists shared their progress and the remaining roadblocks to implementing AI at the recent Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications conference.
With the Great American Eclipse emerging first at the Texas-Mexico border and arcing across the state, government leaders have emergency preparedness and constituent comfort at top of mind.
Texas State Technical College gave Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services a demo of its virtual training, its ambulance simulator and other high-tech equipment.
Both systems must be capable of automating business processes, manual data entry and the enforcement of business rules and best practices while minimizing duplicate data entries and county-specific modifications to the application(s).
The county is looking to replace its current on-premise Human Capital Management (HCM) system with SAP SuccessFactors for more than 6,000 users.
The agency's data governance platform acquisition comes in anticipation of a new data warehouse solution.
The Austin City Council voted to create an interlocal agreement for the county to use the radio system known as GATRRS.
The software would allow employees to enroll dependents in health insurance benefit plans, update certain benefit plan elections and designate beneficiaries for life insurance plans.
