Under the Industries of the Future Act, Congress proposes to spend $10 billion on artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 5G over the next 10 years. Further, the recently released National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence report highlights how the AI revolution will impact the U.S. economy, national security and welfare.

Recognizing the significance of these groundbreaking technologies is an important first step, but now comes the difficult job of unlocking value commensurate with the investment being made. This will require new thinking about the management and delivery of use cases that are in the best public interest. Now that emerging technologies are leveraging computing power, network capacity and AI methodology, there are three key measures that will maximize citizen value.

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Hi everyone,

After many requests, the Qlik Public Sector team has created an on-demand version of the monthly workshop we normally host for customers and prospects. This is an incredible way to learn more about the Qlik platform at your own pace in a guided fashion with materials we provide. This workshop provides an overview of the Qlik platform and walk users through the process of creating a dashboard as well as connecting to data sources and modeling data. 

The attached workshop materials includes the workshop app, data sets, and workshop workbook.

Click HERE to get a free Qlik Sense Business Trial.

Click HERE for the workshop training video.

As a note, the Qlik Cloud environment is continually evolving so there may be points where the UI/navigation may look a little different than what is displayed in the video.

Enjoy!!

The United States intelligence agencies must constantly work towards enhancing their capabilities to counter foreign interference in the country’s affairs. In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, the need for modernizing intelligence operations is more critical than ever before. NCIS recognizes the importance of leveraging advanced technologies such as analytics, machine learning, language learning models, and AI solutions to improve their investigative efforts. It is crucial to empower investigative analysts to quickly identify threats, conflicts of interest, conflict of commitments, technology and supplier vulnerabilities, and more. Enabling analysts to do more by automating processes, providing leadership with critical insights to make faster and informed decisions, and monitoring ongoing events in real-time is essential.

In this white paper, we will explore how NCIS’s new platform, built by IPC Global, will leverage Qlik’s analytics and machine learning capabilities to provide critical insights and streamline the investigative process. We used real-life examples, such as the Charles Lieber arrest post analysis, CoI, CoC use cases, and NCIS process, to demonstrate the value of the new platform.

 Hi All - wanted to make sure you were aware that Qlik is hosting the QlikWorld Tour Public Sector event on May 23rd in Washington, DC!  You can register and find more information here:  bit.ly/42mSPW2 

Join us for a day full of discussions on everything data integration and analytics for U.S. Federal, and State and Local government agencies, as well as K-12 and Higher Education, and Healthcare organizations.  We'll cover topics like Qlik roadmap, data literacy, compliance and policy and so much more! Speakers for this year's event include: 

• Greg Little, Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer of Business Analytics at the Pentagon
• Lori Mongold, Division Chief, Strategic Operations Enterprise Global Force Information Management Capability Management Officer at the Pentagon
• Qlik CEO - Mike Capone 
• Jordan Morrow, Vice President and Head of Data And Analytics at BrainStorm, Inc. (the Godfather of Data Literacy)
• Blake Evans, Elections Director, Georgia Secretary of State

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the agenda and if there's areas you'd like to hear more about! 

Hope to see you there! 

#QlikWorldTour, #QlikPSSummit 

More than 3000 government customers around the world use Qlik to bring massive quantities of complex and disparate data together, to empower everyone across their organization to intuitively explore it, and to govern it at every step of the way. Whether you’re a federal agency or a local department, you can leverage Qlik to become data driven in every function and every role. As a result, you can deliver services more effectively, transparently, and efficiently – while reducing costs.

 One of the many items the Chief Data Officer (CDO) Council is tasked with is data governance. While this has always been a challenging task, today, it is more complicated than ever because of the increasingly large amounts of data handled by federal agencies. In the year since the inaugural CDO Council meeting, research shows that data governance is being strengthened across the government, yet there’s still room for improvement.

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It’s a harsh reality—teachers are quitting their field at a rapid rate, and the pandemic isn’t all that’s to blame.

By nature, teaching is all about relationships—understanding students’ needs, fostering their passions, and figuring out what makes them tick. And over the last two years, these relationships have been not only tested but in the worst circumstances, they have been completely lost.

Of course, we’re aware that hybrid learning took its toll on students, but it also negatively affected teachers. Between health concerns, evolving curriculums and learning environments and demanding regulations, teachers’ levels of stress and burnout have increased dramatically throughout these unusual pandemic times, raising concerns about a potential increase in teacher turnover and future teacher shortages.

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Qlik and Grey Matters Defense Solutions will implement a business intelligence platform to help the U.S. Navy maintain its fleet of surface warships, submarines and other vessels under a potential five-year, $46 million contract.

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As cloud computing advancements make data more accessible, federal agencies are driving improvements in services, efficiency of operations, and effectiveness of government programs. The ability to make faster, more informed decisions is transformative, and the next step is delivering data at the fingertips of all levels of agency operations - not just to the data engineers and scientists.

The question remains: Are agencies ready to support a workforce fully armed with data, or could they experience too much of a good thing?

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Agencies benefit when they move their applications to commercial clouds. If nothing else, agencies free themselves from the effort and cost of hardware planning, acquisition and maintenance. But remote hosting doesn’t absolve federal IT staffs from the burden of patching and updating applications. Those tasks remain regardless of where an application resides.

Andrew Churchill, vice president for federal at Qlik, says even greater benefits accrue when agencies move software as a service (SaaS) applications certified by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).

Speaking specifically of data analytics applications, the time and effort agencies must spend on maintenance means they can have less time available for analytics and strategic thinking, Churchill said during a session at Federal News Network’s Industry Exchange: Data.

The past two years have, once again, highlighted the importance of data’s crucial role in supporting decision making at all levels of government. And we’ve heard some pretty amazing stories from our public sector customers about how they used Qlik to solve some of their most critical challenges during this time, including standing up alternate care facilities, tracking PPE needs, providing community dashboards, and determining school safety.

Did someone within your organization go above and beyond during this time, using data to address a challenge faced by your organization? We want to hear their story.

Qlik invites you to highlight your team member with a Data Hero Award. All organizations are open to nominate anyone by May 15. We’ll post nominees online and invite our larger community to vote for their favorite stories by May 27. The winners will be featured at Qlik’s Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC on June 2.

Nominate someone today!

“The more people we get excited by data, particularly in the public sector, the better.” – Darren Dang, Chief Financial Administrative Officer, Superior Court of California, Orange County

Decision-makers are everywhere in government. They cross the range of pay scales and roles, experiences and skills. And to complement their professional judgments — big or small — data has become the most essential companion.

This new guide will help you as your embark on your journey as a data-driven decision-maker. You’ll explore case studies about what your peers are doing and gain a foundational understanding of the power in data.

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The ability to collect and use data quickly, securely, and repeatedly is critical to federal healthcare agencies’ success. This article, originally published on Government Technology Insider, outlines potential obstacles to establishing this competency and options for overcoming them.

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Agencies are in the beginning stages of the software as a service (SaaS) wave where they can modernize applications, move them to the cloud and constantly upgrade them as their mission needs change.

But many are pushing toward phase two that brings more modern, cloud-ready applications out of the data center and onto a commercial offering.

Federal News Network surveyed five agencies to detail the current and future impact of SaaS across their mission areas.

See the results now!

Defense Logistics Agency Distribution launched a re-warehousing dashboard application within the agency’s Qlik® software in October. The application provides visibility to re-warehousing stow performance and tools to identify storage efficiencies at the agency’s 24 global distribution centers.

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As the world entered the second year of the pandemic, our federal IT community continued its efforts to modernize the federal government and help agencies better meet their unique missions, from ensuring Americans’ access to COVID-19 resources to securing the nation’s most vulnerable supply chains.

The key to all of these public sector advancements remains clear: data. Data operations, or DataOps, has emerged as a vital foundation for agencies’ broader modernization goals.

The past year saw tremendous progress in the collection, visualization and analysis of federal agencies’ data, but it seems the best may be yet to come in 2022. As we look ahead — and we work to keep our own resolutions, IT-related or otherwise — here are four trends that are likely to progress in the coming months.

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In my first post on decision inclusion, I called on federal leaders to see why they need to embrace a multi-generational, multi-functional vision for decision-making for today’s challenges.

Now let me propose how they can do this, even as they perform the high-wire act of leadership before an agitated world growing in COVID-19 pandemic rage.

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At the time, the 2009 HITECH Act and the introduction of the Meaningful Use program represented a momentous step in healthcare’s digital transformation. With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs.

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