Five Ideas: Public Sector
Expert advice for dealing with a swiftly changing landscape.
October 2008
“The Obama administration is saying there are going to be more eyes on you than ever before, and you are expected to take seriously your responsibility to be accountable”— Wayne Bobby, Oracle vice president of the Oracle Public Sector solutions in North America, on stimulus tracking.
“Federal, state, and local government agencies and departments also need to view the long-term or strategic needs. President Obama has been a long-term advocate of greater transparency in government and was a co-sponsor of the 2006 Federal Financial Accountability and
Transparency Act. Therefore, jurisdictions need to be looking beyond the initial requirements toward continuous solution development to meet evolving needs..”—from Oracle white paper: Oracle Solutions for Implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
“We are in a conflict – some would say a war. Let’s call it what it is. Given the diversity of potentially hostile entities building cadres of cyberwarriors, probing our systems for weaknesses, infiltrating U.S. government networks and making similar attempts against American businesses and critical industries – including our defense systems – is there any other conclusion to be reached? Whatever term we use, there are three obvious outgrowths from the above statement. One is that you do can’t win a 'conflict' – or war – if you don’t admit you are in one. The second is that nobody wins on defense. And the third is that we need a doctrine for how we intercede in cyberspace that covers both offense and defense and maps to things we value in the real world.”—Oracle Chief Security Oficer Mary Ann Davidon's testimony to Congress
“Changing citizen demographics, budget constraints, and complex regulations make it more difficult than ever for government agencies to process entitlement application...Although new for social services agencies, [Oracle's Policy Automation has] been widely used in financial services and other highly regulated industries to address rapidly changing policies.”—Dominic O’Hanlon, Oracle senior vice president and general manager
“A proliferation of government information is available on the Web and so are many transactions with government. But many transactions are not and it's still all to common to download a form, fill it out and mail it in. And once that form is sent in, it's still handled in the old way. Thus we still have a lot of back office manual procesing And we still have citizens waiting in line ”—Juan Rada,Senior Vice President, Public Sector, Education and Healthcare Industry
