Wednesday, December 7, 2011

e-government - Public Sector On The Cloud


The techno savvy business world today needs an effective network to collaborate across the global clientele and the mobile workforce. The organizations success depends on the effective collaboration and mastering the inter dependencies in the network.  The use of conventional methods, however does not give the business houses or the government organisations the required reach, control and visibility to effectively manage these increasingly complex networks. Further, these inefficiencies may cost the enterprise its life.

The advent of cloud computing technology and cloud process helps to integrate a multi-enterprise business processes in a network so as to make the information available across all authorized components of such value networks. Being an automated process this offers faster processing of the work schedules, end-to-end transparency and round the clock control.  Integrating cloud technology into the e-government or public sector domain results in free and faster movement of people, goods, capital, and services in a global environment.

The public sector is an integral part of the global community.  Because of its financial interdependencies, role in international investments, global trading, it plays a major role in the country’s economy. Modernizing this with the technological innovations, and better infrastructure, will only enhance the e-government’s efficiency. The cloud based services and technological knowledge can be utilized for the practical up gradation of the e-government process focusing on the e-procurement and developing purchase order software. Further, the provision of better infrastructure will ensure implementation of improved public sector procurement process. This would enable the small and medium business enterprises also to be a part of the public sector and in turn would facilitate regional development.

The involvement of technology in the workflow-oriented process of the e-government reduces operating costs by facilitating the automation of most of the manually conducted tasks such as handling of business transactions, procurements, travel, inbound and outbound order fulfillment, and financial transactions. With a nearly 100% transparency, faster implementation of the public services, eco-friendly and sustainable operation, the use of cloud technology provides for shorter lead-time in the operational process, lean change management and better customer satisfaction.

The e-government being a major buyer of goods and services, the cloud processes enables an  “on demand" sourcing for the company needs. This paves way for reducing the corporate expenditure as well as the investment capital in case of industry sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medicines and other critical goods and services.

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