(LISTED BELOW) For an end of year wrap-up, we are publishing the top 17 ExecutiveBiz stories for 2017. These articles were reviewed and analyzed to be the 17 stories with the highest readership for this year.           Oracle to Dramatically Cut Sales Team, Grow Cloud Sierra Nevada-Turkish Aerospace Industries Team to Offer Trainer Aircraft […] More

A new Deltek report says federal agencies spent a total of $28.3 million on cloud platforms and services from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2017 through the National Institutes of Health’s Chief Information Officer IT Commodities and Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle. NIH spent $18.8 million on cloud platforms over the past three fiscal years, followed by the National […] More

“…we are focused on making what was once impossible–possible” EM: Tell me about your background and how you got to where you are today. Bill Sullivan: My background is somewhat unique in the federal space. I came from the state, local and education (SLED) market, running a series of North American SLED organizations starting at IBM/Tivoli, […] More

CSRA has introduced a new website and adopted the tagline “Think Next. Now” as part of a rebranding initiative to highlight the government technology services contractor’s efforts to deliver innovative platforms and attract talent. The company said Monday the redesigned website includes expanded content on CSRA’s cybersecurity, digital platforms, intelligent business process support, data and analytics and enterprise […] More

Adam Bosworth, formerly an executive vice president at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), is set to take a senior position at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), Fortune reported Wednesday. Barb Darrow writes Bosworth most recently took charge of Salesforce’s software development projects such as an Internet of Things initiative called Thunder. Bosworth previously served as a vice […] More

Jim Lee serves as director and chief of staff to Microsoft’s worldwide public sector services vice president at the global software giant. He previously served as Microsoft’s general manager for state and local government, education and healthcare business between May 2010 and September 2013. Lee was the U.S. general manager of sales and delivery for public sector at […] More

Paul Smith currently serves as vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s public sector business, where he oversees consulting, sales and marketing, channels and strategic planning activities. He is responsible for the business that provides services in support of the U.S. federal government’s international programs and domestic programs for state and local governments and the education […] More

MicroMarket Monitor projects at North America’s predictive analytics market will hit a 24.5 percent compound annual growth rate until 2019, HealthITAnalytics said Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick writes the report also pegs the growth of predictive technology global market at 32.3 percent during the same forecast period. The report shows that North American organizations account for 38.8 percent of the global market. MicroMarket Monitor cited SAP, IBM and […] More

Bill Sullivan is Informatica’s vice president and general manager for North American public sector, with responsibility for federal government and K-12 education customer relations. Sullivan reports to North America Senior VP Frank Fallon and works to grow Informatica’s public sector footprint in the U.S. He has helped the company sell and implement its healthcare information exchanges […] More

Kimberly Boarts, a 12-year veteran of Oracle, has joined DLT Solutions to serve as director of enterprise applications. Boarts will be responsible for DLT’s sales of Oracle’s enterprise applications, databases and engineering systems, DLT announced Monday. She joins DLT from Affigent LLC, where she established Affigent’s alliances program and helped that company grow its Oracle team to […] More