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Governments need to plan for the entire product lifecycle when they purchase technology today

American City & Country

Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.” Additionally, it’s important to plan for the entire product lifecycle, factoring in system maintenance, upgrades and eventual replacement when considering budget constraints.”

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Strategic sourcing enters a new age. Are you keeping up? (Part 1)

ivalua

Strategic sourcing requires an intense focus on the total cost of ownership, while incorporating customer needs, organizational goals, and market conditions. It is important to understand how the strategic priorities of your executive team have been changing over the past decade.

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Migrate and modernize public sector applications using containers and serverless

AWS Public Sector

Building modern applications in AWS helps customers with increased innovation, speed, reliability, scalability, and security while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO). This is particularly valuable in times of crisis or when there’s a need to respond swiftly to constituent demands.

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5 best practices for accelerating research computing with AWS

AWS Public Sector

Chief financial officers (CFOs) stress the importance of measuring the value and return on investment of research conducted, but often lament that the true costs of on-premises resources are distributed across various budgets, or masked.

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Evolution of the Status Quo

The Procurement School

The pandemic initially impacted supply and demand on many items but now there is a broader material and labour landscape that needs to be closely examined, understood, and carefully navigated. Constraints, obstacles, and variability have arisen in several areas that were previously far more predictable.

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector

The goals are to help government address complex policy issues, adapt to changing demands, and provide insights that ultimately benefit the Canadian public. Data sovereignty—having control over digital assets—is increasingly important to customers, especially as regulations evolve.

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Dispelling the top 8 cloud myths holding back Canadian public sector IT transformation

AWS Public Sector

Myth 2: Cloud costs more Migrating to AWS can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 66 percent for compute, storage, and networking. As sustainability becomes increasingly important, cloud computing emerges as a powerful solution with numerous advantages over traditional on-premises data centers.

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