Modern productivity solutions for a modern government
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Modernizing legacy applications and developing new applications on a consistent platform allows organizations to deliver applications faster, extend capabilities to mobile devices, and deploy applications both on-premises and in the cloud. Microsoft offers a range of tools including Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics to help organizations rationalize their application portfolio, develop modern applications, and modernize legacy applications. These tools provide capabilities like configurable dashboards, workflow automation, integration with other Microsoft products, legacy system integration, security, and accessibility.
Modern productivity solutions for a modern government
- 1. Work Like a Network to Sell Effectively Enable modern business applications Application Rationalization & Modernization
- 2. Span multiple devices Rapid, dynamic lifecycle Enhanced security and availability Any data, any size, anywhere Consolidating and modernizing legacy applications while moving to the Cloud will allow your organization to deliver applications faster, quickly extend applications with new capabilities and deploy them on mobile devices. Let your applications live on-premises, in the cloud, or both. Overview Offices and agencies need to be able to respond at unprecedented speed as well as dynamic scale, focusing resources on high value missions and driving down the cost to maintain legacy systems in a time of never-ending application sprawl. That speed, scale and efficiency is only possible with a consistent platform that lets organizations build and manage modern business applications to meet the most demanding business requirements. Tools and resources are needed to deliver industry- leading performance, high availability, and the highest level of security protection. Organizations should continue to leverage existing IT investments and skills in order to save time and money. Applications must process all types of data, big and small, and provide intelligent services delivered through cost saving cloud services onto secure mobile devices.
- 3. textAny data, any size, anywhere Span multiple devices Enhanced security and availability A comprehensive data platform enables you to manage, store, process, and analyze relational and non-relational data across local, hybrid, and cloud premises on physical and virtual servers. With the right cloud platform, you can preserve data compatibility and integration with your existing applications and continue to leverage existing skills while making the most out of your data. You can also get leading-edge performance with in-memory solutions across all workloads. It's one scalable solution for high volumes and high availability. Cloud services will simplify the development of a unified back- end, enabling organizations to connect existing applications, data, and services to any device: PCs, tablets, and phones. A common development experience allows IT and developers to use their skills to make the most of existing code. Browser-based interfaces can easily be created using leading-edge web technologies for any device. Simplified identity allows you to reduce your security risk and lower the burden of managing multiple credentials and identities across private and public clouds. Your cloud services must deliver high availability with minimal effort through automated application monitoring, load balancing, and failover. Elastic infrastructure provides virtually infinite on-demand scalability as well as cloud-enabled availability, backup, and recovery services for on-premises deployments to help organizations take advantage of the benefits of cloud. Rapid, dynamic lifecycle COTS platforms and cloud services will enable organizations to develop, test, and deploy faster than ever before. Prototyping of new ideas can be handled rapidly with cloud services, using familiar tools such as Visual Studio to increase developer productivity. Application management tools remove barriers between business stakeholders, development teams, testing, and operations to help you deliver high-quality software more quickly.
- 4. text Application portfolios have suffered from a lack of attention by many organizations since as far back as Y2K – the last major landmark IT change event for applications. This is due, in part, to tighter IT budgets over the last decade, and growing demand by the business for new functionality which has forced many organizations to focus their efforts on supporting the business at the expense of IT maintenance. Furthermore, as organizations continue to add new applications, and application vendors continue to upgrade to keep in step with the newest operating systems, IT departments are faced with serious application sprawl and a growing backlog of out-of-date and often unsupported applications. IT departments must now take on a deep examination of their application portfolio to determine if, and how, they can migrate to these new platforms. As they do, they are realizing the need to implement new processes to ensure that application portfolio health is maintained on an ongoing basis to avoid costly, wholesale portfolio migration projects in the future. The first critical step in addressing the portfolio is to rationalize the applications portfolio. By rationalizing the portfolio, IT can identify unused, redundant and out of date applications and trim down the portfolio through application elimination, consolidation and modernization Microsoft can help your organization develop modern applications and modernize legacy applications to capitalize on IT paradigms, including cloud, social, mobility, and big data. Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over the life of the application Reduced risk to mission-critical systems and improved supportability An agile platform that helps you speed time to market for new applications and differentiate, grow, and improve existing products and services Rationalize your application portfolio. Develop Modern Applications And Modernize Legacy Applications
- 5. Why Microsoft • Configuration over customization of cloud services, rapid time to value Cost savings over government hosted environments • Reliability, financially-backed SLA's • Common platform - certification and accreditation of the platform, not individual applications. The security features are inherent to the platform. • Interoperability and portability between on-premises, cloud services, hybrid cloud Building the unified platform for a modern organization. Microsoft can help you build out these modern applications, securely integrate them with your current systems, and provide a platform for the future. Microsoft's comprehensive cloud covers all modernization needs.
- 6. Platform Business Apps Productivity Azure Dynamics Office 365 Office 365 gives you the familiarity and power of Office with the flexibility of the cloud. With Office in the cloud, your applications and files are with you wherever you go, whether you’re working on the go at your desktop, online, or on one of your devices. Edit files at your PC or Mac. Email or share files from your tablet. • PowerBI - Data visualization and analytics • SharePoint - Document repository and collaboration • Office development - Incorporate CRM data into productivity applications: Apps for Office; Apps for SharePoint; and Office 365 API’s. Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft- managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment. A unifying component across all of these services is Microsoft Azure Active Directory, a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that provides a robust set of capabilities to manage users and groups and help secure access to not only applications in the Microsoft cloud, but non-Microsoft applications including a growing catalog of preconfigured SaaS applications from major vendors. Configure your modern application on Dynamics and experience shortened time-to-value because the underlying framework of Dynamics can be used as a solution development framework, reducing project timelines without having to adapt the business to match the software model. By using Dynamics as a solution development framework, organizations can invest once, yet develop multiple applications. This reduces the cost and time associated with development and accelerates ROI. Dynamics helps reduces the cost of creating solutions by providing core services within the framework itself, as well as close interoperability with Microsoft technologies such as Azure, SQL Server and Office. TextThe Microsoft Cloud for Government is built around three distinct cloud services to provide Productivity, Business Applications, and a flexible platform to meet government needs through Office 365, CRM Online, and Azure. While these three services are all great standalone. Together, they create a virtuous cycle that drives more value than they do independently. Microsoft is unique in our strength to offer SaaS, and SaaS extensibility, through Office 365 and CRM Online as well as PaaS and IaaS through Microsoft Azure. Office 365, CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure All use the same core cloud infrastructure for the best performance and interoperability—same data center, same network, and the same identity service. Comprehensively address organization needs.
- 7. textModern Business Applications with Microsoft Dynamics The Dynamics COTS platform includes configurable functionality out-of-the box. This approach reduces customization efforts and risk—accelerating the creation of a flexible, scalable and integrated business modern applications. Out of the box capabilities include: • End user configurable dashboards • Native integrations with Microsoft capabilities: Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, Bing Maps Yammer, Skype and Lync • An intuitive/extensible workflow engine and business process features • Point and click configuration tools • A robust security framework with strong access and privileges management features • Multi-language/multi-currency and Section 508 support • Robust reporting based on SQL Server Reporting Services • A broad and deep Microsoft partner network, dedicated to providing customers with solutions, expertise, and support Other COTS platforms may offer a robust CRM or business process management capability that do not integrate well with enterprise systems, legacy systems or perform modern application functions such as data visualization.
- 8. Dynamics capabilities for application modernization. Dashboards – Users have the ability to utilize the rich search and charting tools to produce dashboards and reports that provide timely and relevant information Workflow – Configurable and customizable Workflows reduce repetitive tasks for users and drive the action through the proper processes. The approvals and workflow progress can be tracked up and down the chain-of-command while user interactive workflows (Dialogs) lead users through decision-making processes as required. Native Integration – Commonly used tools are seamlessly integrated with Dynamics including Office tools, such as Excel, Word, Outlook, and SharePoint. The Excel integration offers a recognized reporting tool within the platform, while Word templates save time by providing preformatted documents in a consistent design for communicating with external people and process. Integration with Microsoft Outlook provides the ability to manage email conversations by automatically tracking important information. The native SharePoint integration takes advantage of the strong document management and collaboration features to extend the platform’s functionality even further. Legacy Integration – Dynamics provides a dynamic web service interface for applications to access and manipulate platform data and metadata and to interact with platform services. These services enable the development of .NET applications using Microsoft Visual Studio, or the development of non-.NET applications using other tools by simply referencing the web services. The web services exposed by the platform are WSI BP 1.1 compliant, which makes the web services interoperable with non-Microsoft platforms. Microsoft Dynamics provides a strong set of APIs and support for SOAP and REST. Security – Whether data is entered into the system manually, via workflow automation, or through integration with other systems, the multi-faceted security model for the Dynamics platform will protect the data for your organization. At the highest level, information can be secured between organizations and business units. Users will only have access to information that’s relevant to them through their organizational hierarchy, and will be assigned one or more security roles based on their specific organizational function(s). Role-based security can be configured to give users read-only, create, modify or no-access to functional information. Field level security gives you the ultimate control what data users have access to for a given record. The platform and its supporting products can be configured to exclusively use Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) certified algorithms and components covering all cryptographic functions when the application is operating in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode. Mobile – The platform is highly reliable, scalable and accessible. Users will have the option to access their work from mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones, as well as offline access when the network is unavailable. The web-based platform supports a variety of browsers, including: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Accessibility – The platform provides accessibility features that meet the requirements of Section 508 Standards. A Voluntary Product Accessibility, or VPAT, is provided to show how the software product meets key regulations of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Microsoft Dynamics has been implemented at many Federal agencies in the United States with strict 508 compliance policies and product continues to help those expectations.
- 9. Realize the benefits of application modernization with Microsoft. Your Microsoft account team is available to support you through resources such as: Executive briefing. The Executive Briefing Center is in the heart of the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, and offers strategic briefings in a world-class, state-of-the-art briefing facility. Customized agendas around topics ranging from Microsoft products to industry trends give the unique opportunity to engage in open dialogue with Redmond based executives and subject matter experts. Explore opportunities together and discover how Microsoft can help meet your specific business objectives. Architecture design session. This custom session focuses on your agency specific objectives and aligns them with applications of Microsoft software to help you not only meet your goals, but also capitalize on them. Microsoft will provide architectural guidance, consultation on preferred practices, and risk analysis to chief technology officers, architects, and senior members of your development team. Customer immersion experience. The Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) provides a facilitated hands-on environment where you can test drive Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM with integration into Office 365, Lync and with Skype. We would welcome the opportunity to support your evaluation of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution with any or all of these engagements. Contact us Would you like a hands-on experience to explore the benefits that Microsoft solutions can deliver? Contact your Microsoft sales representative to schedule a briefing. These facilitated sessions examine your current IT environment and business objectives. Then it moves into the Envisioning Center, where you’ll see Microsoft solutions in action, through powerful demo’s and scenarios customized to meet your needs.
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