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Using Analytics to Solve Public Sector Challenges
Are your constituents and policies calling for more transparency and openness with information? Are you confronted with more demanding citizens and economic and political pressure? Today’s ERP software lets you track more about your employees and constituencies than ever before, but you still might not be seeing the full picture. If you’re being asked to “do more with less,” it’s increasingly important to turn raw data into information to make effective decisions.

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Local Government Emergency Services: Setting Yourself Up for Success
This article, by CIBER’s A.J. Briding first appeared in IAEM Bulletin in October 2007

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04 Sep 2008
CIBER Wins $19 Million SAP Support Contract for Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
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Montgomery County, MarylandCIBER has won a $22.6 million contract with Montgomery County, Maryland to replace legacy information technology system with Oracle’s E-Business Suite.

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Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
Louisiana Office of Public Health Selects CIBER for New WIC IT System
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Louisiana Department of Revenue, Office of Charitable Gaming
CIBER Builds Solutions to Automate Data Gathering
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“CIBER was easy to work with and competitively priced. They quickly brought a great deal of expertise and experience to the table, and delivered on their promises. We felt that we were in good hands, because the CIBER consultants we brought in had 'been there, done that" before.”

Steve DeMougin — Deputy Director for the Department of IT, State of Indiana

 

e-Geographic Information System (GIS)

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a collection of computer hardware, software and spatial data used to capture, manage, analyze and display all forms of geographically referenced information. With  GIS, you can link information (tabular information or attributes) to location data, such as people to addresses, buildings to parcels, or streets within a network. The user can then layer that information to give you a better understanding of how it all works together.

 In many organizations, the need for GIS services started in one department, such as the department responsible for property taxes, then gradually gains acceptance and is adopted piece-meal by others. This type of fragmented growth results in secluded, redundant and loosely related departmental systems throughout the organization. Although efficiencies are gained within individual departments, the full potential of e-GIS does not materialize.

A recent study revealed that an excess of two-thirds of the business functions identified in state and local government share common patterns. These patterns are apparent in information processing, analysis, reporting, and management. In most instances a lack of enterprise structure and standard data sharing methodology leads to localized data development, data redundancy and security of spatial data.

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An enterprise GIS system allows dynamic updating of GIS data ensuring consistency and reliability of data across the enterprise. The e-GIS system reduces redundancy, increases reliability and improves communications among departments and across organizations. e-GIS users share a common central data repository, eliminating the need to constantly update one database based on additions or changes to another.

Together with e-GIS, CIBER’s Business Process Integration (BPI) practice offers solutions and technology services for:

  • 311/CRM Citizen Relationship Management
  • Electronic Contract Management
  • Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Analysis (BA)
  • Server Consolidation and Virtualization
  • Enterprise Content and Document Management

CIBER Approach

The implementation of GIS as an enterprise technology (e-GIS) has been substantially impacted by advancements in computing technology and the emergency of Service Oriented Architecture for data share. An e-GIS system utilizes a shared, central data repository for the storage of spatial and tabular data. The implementation of such a system allows for dynamic updating of GIS data, reduces redundancy, increases reliability and improves communications among departments and organizations. Without this centralized data storage for GIS data, different department users of the GIS data are required to determine whose data is considered prime and how to continually update  the subordinate databases. Organizations can build applications using e-GIS data for the web, desktop or mobile devices. All users have access to the most accurate and current data by connecting to a central location for data storage.

 Adhering to CIBER’s expert methodology, the CIBER GIS Team has developed an Enterprise Architecture that uses up front data integration through an address validation exposed as a web-service. The Enterprise Architecture also utilizes back-end data integration through a custom batch geo-coding process that can key existing databases quickly and efficiently.

Benefits of using CIBER GIS Services:

  • Centralized enterprise database
  • Standardized GIS data to common Data standard rules that allow detailed quality control procedures to ensure consistency, integrity and accuracy of data
  • Improved business decisions and a dashboard environment for decision makers
  • Assurance that GIS data is available for emergencies and natural disasters.
  • Easy configuration for user access
  • Customized applications, such as: custom .NET applications, viewer applications, web-based GIS reporting, and land management desktop applications

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City of New Orleans

Promotion of Government Efficiency — During recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina, The City relied on CIBER’s e-GIS technologies to track the rebuilding efforts. An address algorithm combined data from various sources to determine a single point of address verification. This consolidated function, previously spread among multiple departments, provided more effective quality control.

Public Safety — Working directly with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) and the New Orleans Office of Emergency Management, CIBER’s GIS team built technologies and applications that allow the NOPD to map and track crime trends and density, and for the Office of Emergency Management to receive real time emergency incident feeds.

GIS Revenue Recognition and Cost Avoidance — The CIBER GIS team developed models for City strategic planning, transportation and traffic mapping models for infrastructure planning, and mapping and data services to assist the City in recovery of funds for damaged infrastructure.



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