Onvia Announces New Government Cloud Resources For Public Sector IT Vendors

SEATTLE, June 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Onvia (NASDAQ: ONVI), the leading provider of "Intelligence for Winning More Government Business," today announced the availability of two valuable resources for information technology vendors selling into the public sector.

The first resource is a comprehensive white paper titled "Tactics to Win in the State and Local Cloud Market" written by Paul Irby, IT Market Analyst at Onvia. In the white paper, Irby details cloud computing trends, describes how state and local government agencies successfully use cloud solutions and provides valuable tactics for IT vendors to win more business from agency IT decision makers.

The second resource is the recorded webinar titled "Expert Insights to Win Government Cloud Contracts." The webinar was presented live on June 5, 2014. The experts on hand for the webinar were Naveen Rajkumar, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Onvia, Ronit Cohn, IT Procurement Strategist and manager of the IT sales team at Onvia and white paper author, Paul Irby. The webinar was moderated by Kelsey Voss, Senior Marketing Manager, IT Public Sector at Onvia. In the webinar, the experts provide an in-depth look at cloud computing activity across all levels of government including what the term "cloud" means to government agencies and IT vendors, the latest trends happening in public sector cloud, an overview of the government cloud procurement process and keys to success in winning government cloud contracts.

For the white paper and the webinar, Irby, Rajkumar and Cohn leverage Onvia's enterprise-grade solution for government market intelligence. Using Onvia's Project Center, Vendor Center and Spending Forecast Center products, the presenters research government cloud procurement activity from tens of thousands of agencies across the country, share the names of top vendors leading government cloud initiatives today and analyze agency capital improvement plans (CIPs) and budget documents to share multiple examples of government cloud initiatives being planned over the next 2-5 years.

Visitors can download the resources for free directly from Onvia's website using the following links:

"Tactics to Win in the State and Local Cloud Market" White Paper:  
http://www.onvia.com/business-resources/white-papers/tactics-to-win-in-the-state-and-local-cloud-market

"Expert Insights to Win Government Cloud Contracts" Webinar:
 http://www.onvia.com/business-resources/expert-insights-to-win-government-cloud-contracts

About Onvia
For more than 13 years Onvia (NASDAQ: ONVI) has been delivering the data and tools companies rely on to succeed in the government contracting market. Onvia tracks and reports the spending of tens of thousands of federal, state and local government agencies, giving companies a single source for conducting business with government. For information about Onvia, visit www.onvia.com.

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