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  • Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sutter Health, Validic Collaborate to Support Federal Health Data Delivery Pilot Project

    Sutter Health and Validic have teamed up to support a federal pilot project that aims  to identify strategies for the delivery of patient-generated health data to medical service  providers and researchers. Validic said Wednesday results of the collaborative effort will help inform government policy and provide insight on how the industry can implement remotely-collected patient health information in the U.S. The […] More

  • Accenture Unveils Chicago-Based Digital Hub; Jay Dettling Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Unveils Chicago-Based Digital Hub; Jay Dettling Comments

    Accenture has established a new facility in the West Loop of Chicago in a move to provide customers greater access to a range of company-made digital and collaboration tools. The Accenture Digital Hub is built to house more than 500 of the company’s marketing, analytics and mobility specialists who aim to invent and deliver disruptive technologies for clients, Accenture said Friday. Accenture seeks […] More

  • Accenture Introduces Cloud-Based Tool Available Through Salesforce to Assist Wealth Managers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Introduces Cloud-Based Tool Available Through Salesforce to Assist Wealth Managers

    Accenture has unveiled a new cloud-based platform developed to assist wealth management firms that attempt to comply with the Labor Department‘s fiduciary rule for advisers that oversee retirement accounts that will take effect on April 2017. The company said Wednesday the Accenture Wealth Management Compliance Solution for Salesforce will work with the latter’s Financial Services Cloud created to transform the client-advisor relationship for the […] More

  • Accenture-Atos-Safran Team to Support eu-LISA Visa Information & Biometric Matching Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture-Atos-Safran Team to Support eu-LISA Visa Information & Biometric Matching Systems

    A team comprised of Accenture, Safran‘s identity and security business and Atos has secured spots on a potential six-year contract from the European agency for the operational management of large-scale information technology systems in the area of freedom, security and justice. The consortium will provide application and infrastructure support for the E.U. Visa Information System and the Biometric Matching System in an […] More

  • Report Forecasts Cloud Tech Demand in Financial Services Industry Through 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report Forecasts Cloud Tech Demand in Financial Services Industry Through 2020

    A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, predicts the global private and public cloud market in financial services industry will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.12 percent from 2016 to 2020. The 107-page market research report incorporates analysis and inputs from industry professionals and covers the market landscape and its growth forecast over the next […] More

  • DHA Taps Accenture Subsidiary to Build Health Provider Credentialing Tool for DoD, VA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHA Taps Accenture Subsidiary to Build Health Provider Credentialing Tool for DoD, VA

    An Accenture subsidiary has received a potential 16-month, $7.8 million contract from the Defense Health Agency to develop, test and field a joint platform designed to support the credentialing process for health care providers between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. ASM Research will build a tool based on DoD’s Credentials Quality Assurance System […] More

  • Accenture's Cloud-Based ERP Platform Gains FedRAMP Approval; David Moskovitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture’s Cloud-Based ERP Platform Gains FedRAMP Approval; David Moskovitz Comments

    Accenture has obtained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system designed for government customers. The company said Tuesday it helped the National Science Foundation implement and migrate NSF’s new financial system to Accenture’s Federal Cloud ERP platform. David Moskovitz, chief executive of Accenture’s federal services business, said the FedRAMP certification will help the company to […] More

  • IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Systems Integrators Key to Federal IT Transformation

    A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

  • Siemens, Omnetric Group Test Renewable Software Platform at Duke Energy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, Omnetric Group Test Renewable Software Platform at Duke Energy

    Siemens and Omnetric Group have collaborated to install and test a renewable software technology at utility company Duke Energy as part of a project managed by the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Omentric assessed the technical feasibility of the Open Field Message Bus architecture in conjunction with Siemens’ Microgrid Management Software designed for weather and load behavior forecasting, Siemens said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Accenture Study Details 5 Tech Trends in Digital Government; Tom Greiner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Study Details 5 Tech Trends in Digital Government; Tom Greiner Comments

    A new Accenture study has identified five emerging technology trends driven by a “people-first approach” the company believes can help move forward the federal government’s digital initiatives. The Accenture Technology Vision 2016 study sought input from the Technology Vision External Advisory Board that consists of individuals from the public and private sectors and academia, Accenture said Wednesday. Accenture cited intelligent automation, liquid workforce, platform-based […] More

  • HHS' ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

  • CRN: Australia's Defense Dept Orders 100K Dell Desktops - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRN: Australia’s Defense Dept Orders 100K Dell Desktops

    Dell‘s Australia-based business unit has received a two-year, $56.9 million contract from that country’s defense department to deliver than 100,000 desktops across the military as part of a large-scale computer supply project, CRN reported Tuesday. Steven Kiernan writes the desktop units will run both Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems to support the project that aims […] More