'Third-Wave' Tech Tools Reshape Agencies: Kundra

Vivek Kundra, Former US Government CIO turned EVP of Emerging Markets for salesforce.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Vivek has had the kind of career that befits someone approaching retirement. He has been a CIO at the city, county, state, and federal ...

As told to Diane Brady this afternoon at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Conference in New York City. Edited and condensed for clarity. My first day on the job, I was so excited. I walked in and my team handed me a stack of documents and said, ...

Amid a growing appetite among public-sector agencies for mobile applications to improve services, Salesforce.com debuts new government collaboration, app-development tools. CIO WASHINGTON -- Looking to make deeper inroads into the public-sector ...

/PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte announced today that it is expanding its global alliance with salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, with the launch of new capabilities for the Federal Innovation Center. The announcement brings together ...

For some carriers, this may be old news. For example, I spoke with Michael Anselmo, CIO of Narragansett Bay Insurance Co., back in 2010 about his work in this area, which extended all the way back to 2005 with a previous company. As Anselmo said at ...

Amazon's Web Services offering has received an official seal of approval by United States authorities, in a move that is likely to significantly boost the company's public sector business. The cloud provider said it was now certified as compliant ...

At the recent IBM Impact conference, I had the opportunity to speak with Jay Snyder, director of platform engineering at Aetna, about his work with his company's private cloud. In this case, Aetna's private cloud isn't built for running insurance ...

Several aspects of this deal stand out. It is the first acquisition by Guidewire, which until now has been a we build it, we sell it shop; it augments Guidewire's capabilities in the hottest part of the technology landscape (business ...

A couple of years back, I posted an account of how one major insurer — Nationwide — was adopting lean IT principles into its own operations. It's a topic worth revisiting, as we have a set of principles borrowed from the industrial world that ...