Overview
There are significant forces that are reshaping societies and governments around the world. Changing demographics, accelerating globalization, rising environmental concerns, expanding impact of technology, and growing threats to social stability and order – these are all major challenges that can become opportunities. From social services and finance administration, to defense and public safety, IBM Application Services can help reshape your government application portfolio into a set of flexible, streamlined applications and processes that can provide greater efficiency and cost control, and improved performance and responsiveness.
Discover new sources of revenue
Succeeding in today's economic environment requires a focus on value, capitalizing on opportunities, acting with speed, and effectively managing change and risk. This includes finding new sources of revenue to stay strong in such a volatile marketplace. IBM Application Services can help provide the efficiency and business responsiveness to:
- Improve collection rates on declining tax bases
- Gather new revenues, such as road charging and mileage-based user charging
- Streamline trade
Reduce costs
Cost savings and operational efficiency can be obtained through application consolidation and by tapping best practices in application management. Portfolio outsourcing, application out-tasking, co-management and staff augmentation solutions can help lower long-term support and maintenance costs 10-40 percent.
- Position your agency to do more with the same, or less, resources: hiring freezes, budget reallocations, contract renegotiations
- Gain efficiencies through consolidation and shared services
- Implement self-service
Drive innovation and collaboration
IBM Application Services helps integrate and manage enterprise data to improve collaboration and responsiveness while creating an environment that is flexible to support business innovation and transformation.
- Grow public and private partnerships
- Accelerate implementation of services
- Engage new customers and markets
- Explore joint ventures with shared risk-reward
- Improve internal and external collaboration within/across borders and institutions
- Ensure rapid assimilation and deployment of expertise/knowledge
- Promote co-creation, ideation and scenario planning
IBM Application Services can also help government through a proven, tested approach that mitigates risk to support strategic priorities: driving new regulatory initiatives, improving internal and external collaboration within borders and institutions, ensuring public safety, maintaining social stability and stimulating economic activity.
Why IBM
IBM's industry expertise and global investment in technology skills provide a foundation for leadership in application design, development, implementation, integration and management. Our in-depth understanding of business processes and information technology uniquely qualifies us to work with clients who wish to take advantage of industry best practices in application lifecycle management in order for them to focus on their core businesses.
As a leading global provider of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivaled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements. Our team of more than 90,000 application services consultants located around the world can assemble industry and technology expertise and utilize proven methodology, research innovation, and technology accelerators to help you reduce cost and risk while improving business value from applications.
