Agility needed for federal IT

Stronger programme oversight, better risk management and more 'agility' are among the fixes needed for federal information technology procurement, an industry commission says in a report, according to the Federal Times.

"Most policies, procedures and practices that are used in major IT acquisitions date back from the 1990s, 1980s or even earlier,'' according to the report from the TechAmerica Foundation.

“Such an infrastructure is poorly suited to supporting the interactive, incremental and collaborative processes of agile/ development."

In what has clearly come as heartening news for the government machinery in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Shashi Kant Sharma, India's secretary in the department of IT applauded the state for ably implementing the centrally-funded e-governance scheme in UP, reports The Times of India.

Principal secretary of IT, Chandra Prakash, says: "The [IT] secretary was very impressed with the results of pilot e-governance project being implemented in six districts of the state. After seeing its initial success, he has now proposed to roll out the project across the rest of the country as well.''

Sharma was speaking to a gathering of software professionals in the city. The bureaucrat, while stressing on the need for spreading IT to grassroots in the country, also acknowledged Lucknow as a potential IT-BPO hub, owing to its good air, rail and road connectivity, and "an excellent quality of life

Sybase, an SAP company and industry provider of enterprise and mobile software, revealed significant adoption momentum of Sybase complex event processing (CEP) technology for performing analytics on high-speed streaming data, reveals KansasCity.

The Sybase CEP solution has recently been adopted by two additional key financial institutions: ClientKnowledge and The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Company, to enable real-time risk management.

The ability to manage risk in real-time is mission critical, and Sybase CEP provides intelligence on high-speed streaming market and trade data with minimum latency, supposedly enabling capital markets firms to analyse data and act on it faster than competitors.