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Government to go to common IT systems across all departments

PanaEng said:
Growing pains; but seriously, it's mostly the same ppl that did it before - maybe is more about whose cost centre it comes out of.
Not so much that, but the process to engage said people can change.  In one situation, there are (very good) IT folks in a regional fed business centre, but everyone in said biz centre is required to call the call centre/Services Desk for help first, and if they can't solve it remotely from the Services Desk, the keen IT folk have to await an official request from the centre to go across the hall (or the adjoining cubicle) to fix something.
 
Thucydides said:
If they go to the Windows solution, we are in big trouble from hackers,...

It depends.

If you have a good team of network administrators and a good security team you will have decent security on your network regardless of the platform your servers are running on ...
 
chopchop said:
It depends.

If you have a good team of network administrators and a good security team you will have decent security on your network regardless of the platform your servers are running on ...

Please tell that to the Chinese. :nod:
 
FJAG said:
IMHO the problem stemmed from an inability to create a single integrated system rather than the existing system of disparate systems. In large part I saw a dysfunctional personnel system that created very high turnover through job jumping amongst the most skilled workers which made adequate support and project implementation difficult at best.

The real problem was lack of Command ownership, particularly in the early 90s.  Arguably, Commanders abrogated their responsibilities to direct how IM/IT was to implemented to functionally enable the Forces, and left it to the Siggies to execute pretty much as they thought/judged/wanted, in essentially a command vacuum. 

:2c:

Regards
G2G
 
Good2Golf said:
The real problem was lack of Command ownership, particularly in the early 90s.  Arguably, Commanders abrogated their responsibilities to direct how IM/IT was to implemented to functionally enable the Forces, and left it to the Siggies to execute pretty much as they thought/judged/wanted, in essentially a command vacuum. 

:2c:

Regards
G2G

I agree. There was no coherent plan devised and money was thrown at the issue. This is why some units had IBM computers and some had Wangs.....seriously.
 
In the BC Provincal Government we started down the Road of Shared Services 8 years ago.

On the IT side we have outsourced PC Support Server Support and are just about to outsource network support. Each one to a different vendor.

The government does not want to be in the IT Business.

I can bet in 5 years a large chuck of shared services canada will be outsourced.

 
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