Industry Priorities for Public Sector IT

"It is a sign you have been a around too long," quipped Mark Noriega, a Director at Deloitte and tireless community volunteer, in accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Center for Digital Government's Second Annual Industry Summit, held this year in Colorado Springs, CO. Nice work! (Mark is seen here with the Center's Executive Director Cathilea Robinett.)

The gathering of executives from leading system integrators and related technology companies focused on a day long examination of state and local government. It was the second annual Industry Summit, convened by the Center for Digital Government.

The hundred or so industry delegates allowed an anonymous peak under the covers of their respective companies' prime targets in SLG.

It is not at all surprising the public safety and human services topped the list but, interestingly, there was consensus on only two items -- on enterprise IT infrastructure near the top of the list and parks and recreation at the very bottom.

Slicing the market by the technologies in which government is likely to invest, infrastructure again topped the list -- second only to virtualization (which may be an aspirational ranking, given the composition of the audience).  Interestingly, the industry reps see a continuing government focus on information security, consolidation and connectivity.  They see only middling opportunities for legacy modernization, shared services and software-as-a-service.  Representing sales organizations as they do, the results also indicate three items that just don't seem ready to move -- sadly, they are business process models and identity/ access management.