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  • USDA Taps Salesforce to Deploy Cloud Tech at Farm Service Agency; Dave Rey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USDA Taps Salesforce to Deploy Cloud Tech at Farm Service Agency; Dave Rey Comments

    The Agriculture Department‘s Farm Service Agency will use Salesforce‘s cloud service platform to support a new program designed to inform FSA customers about non-USDA initiatives that could bring growth opportunities. The company said Wednesday the Bridges to Opportunity program will utilize the Salesforce Service Cloud to distribute information among 10,000 FSA employees as well as monitor trends […] More

  • CSRA Redesigns Website, Launches New Tagline As Part of Rebranding Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Redesigns Website, Launches New Tagline As Part of Rebranding Effort

    CSRA has introduced a new website and adopted the tagline “Think Next. Now” as part of a rebranding initiative to highlight the government technology services contractor’s efforts to deliver innovative platforms and attract talent. The company said Monday the redesigned website includes expanded content on CSRA’s cybersecurity, digital platforms, intelligent business process support, data and analytics and enterprise […] More

  • CIO John Dancy on CSRA's 'Next-Gen' Tech Partnerships & Post-CSC Spin Journey - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CIO John Dancy on CSRA’s ‘Next-Gen’ Tech Partnerships & Post-CSC Spin Journey

    CSRA‘s journey as an independent company since its late 2015 separation from Computer Sciences Corp. included many moves to position itself in the market as a primary partner for federal agencies and industry vendors seeking to offer new technologies in the government market. Of note, CSRA held a pair of Emerging Technology Day events and an internal “Hack-A-Thon” event […] More

  • Project Hosts to Offer Nintex’s Document Generation Platform Via FedRAMP Private Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Project Hosts to Offer Nintex’s Document Generation Platform Via FedRAMP Private Cloud

    Project Hosts will offer Nintex’s document generation platform to government agencies through the former’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-authorized private cloud. The Nintex Drawloop platform works to automate creation of digital documents in Salesforce through merger of data into any combination of document templates, Nintex said Tuesday. Jim Roberson, a vice president at Nintex, […] More

  • Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics to Provide GSA Customer Insights Tool

    Qualtrics has been selected to provide a new customer insights system to the General Services Administration as part of GSA’s efforts to measure and manage the quality of its services. GSA will implement the enterprise-grade platform to collect, analyze and distribute customer feedback in real time through web-based, mobile-responsive collection tools, Qualtrics said Thursday. The system will […] More

  • Amtrak Taps Phase One to Support Mobile Mgmt Tool for Chicago's Union Station; Jodi Huston Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amtrak Taps Phase One to Support Mobile Mgmt Tool for Chicago’s Union Station; Jodi Huston Comments

    Phase One has been selected to support a mobile management tool Amtrak will use to manage processes at Chicago’s Union Station. Phase One said Friday it will leverage the company’s Salesforce application expertise to help Amtrak manage train turn-around times and streamline the station’s operations. Yard personnel will use the tool to schedule the preparation of each train for departure and supervisors will […] 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

  • Vormetric Launches Thales Orchestration Tool to Manage Encryption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vormetric Launches Thales Orchestration Tool to Manage Encryption

    Thales‘ Vormetric company has unveiled a tool that works to provide security orchestration for the Vormetric Data Security Platform of products with encryption across data centers and cloud environments. Vormetric said Thursday the Thales Orchestrator is comprised of a patented system that helps deploy encryption and rotate encryption keys without taking applications offline as well as a cloud-based service to manage Salesforce Platform Encryption key […] More

  • Phase One Raises Funds for Federal IT Modernization Support; Salesforce's Dave Rey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phase One Raises Funds for Federal IT Modernization Support; Salesforce’s Dave Rey Comments

    Phase One Consulting Group has obtained funds of an undisclosed sum that will support the company’s federal business as well as modernization efforts in the federal information technology sector. Alexandria, Virginia-based Phase One said Thursday that Salesforce‘s corporate investment group Salesforce Ventures serves as one of the consulting firm’s investors. Dave Rey, executive vice president for Salesforce’s North America public sector […] More

  • Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS

    Adam Bosworth, formerly an executive vice president at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), is set to take a senior position at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), Fortune reported Wednesday. Barb Darrow writes Bosworth most recently took charge of Salesforce’s software development projects such as an Internet of Things initiative called Thunder. Bosworth previously served as a vice […] More

  • Joshua Newman: Salesforce Health Cloud Meets FedRAMP Security Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joshua Newman: Salesforce Health Cloud Meets FedRAMP Security Standards

    Salesforce.com‘s health cloud platform has met FedRAMP security standards requirements and has been included on the company’s moderate Authority-to-Operate for the Government Cloud platform, Salesforce said in a post published Monday. Joshua Newman, Salesforce chief medical officer and general medical officer of healthcare and life sciences, wrote the Health Cloud platform has been authorized for deployment on […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute AdvoLogix Legal Matter Mgmt Services Across Public Sector Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute AdvoLogix Legal Matter Mgmt Services Across Public Sector Markets

    Carahsoft has teamed up with AdvoLogix to distribute the latter’s cloud-based law practice and legal matter management services in the local, city, state and federal government markets. AdvoLogix said Tuesday its software-as-a-service suite was designed to help legal departments in the government update matter management processes, prioritize workloads, focus legal capacity, simplify document/email management and streamline internal and external collaboration. Carahsoft […] More