Education

Partner Spotlight

Building the "Government of the Future" with Big Data and Smart Analytics from SAP

(Partner Spotlight, Business Intelligence)
138
Monday, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview
CPE Subject Area: Not CPE Eligible

Attend this session to learn how enterprise business intelligence is evolving to enable the next generation of state and local government.  Learn how you can leverage technologies such as big data, advanced visualization, search, and predictive analytics to enable your organization to run better.  You will hear real use cases from cities, states and other government organizations who are building the future, today.

The CGI/Kronos "Advantage": Volusia County Case Study

(Partner Spotlight, HR/Payroll)
218
Tuesday, 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Overview
CPE Subject Area: Not CPE Eligible

Volusia County has been a CGI Advantage® customers since 1984.  With an upgrade to Advantage HRM 3.7 on the horizon, it was the right opportunity to evaluate their time and attendance needs.  The county selected Kronos' Workforce Central solution in 2005 to complement their existing CGI Advantage® investment.  Decreasing payroll process time is just one example of the benefits achieved with this integrated solution.  Hear from Kronos and Volusia County as they walk through the integration of the two systems, the benefits realized, and lessons learned along the way.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) with OpenText

(Partner Spotlight)
228
Tuesday, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Overview
CPE Subject Area: Not CPE Eligible

Information is a high value asset and Government organizations have massive amounts of it to manage. This session will examine Information Governance principles and methods that bring your content, processes, and disparate systems together to improve citizen services, internal processes and information security.  It will examine how to gain the most advantage from your information while reducing risks and costs associated with it. Whether on premise or in the cloud, many Government organizations are achieving great value from their Information Governance programs.  Join us to hear how.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage: Storage for the Next Era

(Partner Spotlight)
248
Tuesday, 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview
CPE Subject Area: Not CPE Eligible

In 2012, HP acquired 3PAR for $2.4 Billion making it the largest acquisition in the company's history.  Since then, 3PAR has become HP's flagship SAN solution seeing 75%+ Y/Y growth.  The portfolio offers a wide range of models ideal for clients of all industry and size sharing the same OS, Management, Support, and Advanced Tier 1 Functionalities.  This session will take you through the various features that make 3PAR the most innovative solution to support server virtualization, deliver IT as a Service, and accelerate new application deployment such as CGI's Advantage.

In this session we will provide you with a high level overview of how 3Par lets you serve unpredictable and mixed workloads, support unstructured and structured data growth, meet your file and block storage needs, and your object storage needs as they emerge.  We will discuss how 3PAR continues to be the most efficient SAN in the industry through its unique thin provisioning capabilities allowing for decreased capacity requirements. We will also review how 3PAR continues to top SPC-1 performance benchmarks through its distinctive architecture.

In this era, organizations are constantly battling with a "do more with less" mentality while data growth continues to skyrocket.  3PAR was specifically designed to meet these challenges while providing IT with a simplified platform for management.  At the conclusion of this session, you will walk away with a great understanding of why 3PAR continues to be the preferred SAN platform by the CGI Advantage team.