Top 10 Ways the U.S. Government Has Used Information Optimization to Save Tax Payers $300 Million

PITTSBURGH, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivisimo, a leader in information optimization, today announced the top 10 ways its Information Optimization platform has saved taxpayers $300 million by helping the federal government become more efficient and improve national security. Over the past few years, federal agencies, including federally funded organizations, have saved hundreds of millions of dollars and improved America's security posture by being able to quickly surf through mountains of information and pull relevant data that will allow federal employees and contractors to perform their job better and faster.

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The U.S. Federal Government today faces increasing pressure to reduce budgets while fulfilling its missions and improving services. Like the private sector, the federal government is faced with growing volumes of data, but also must contend with complex regulations and stringent privacy and security rules. Add to this the need for transparency and constituencies that have become accustomed to "on-demand" information access, and government executives face a daunting set of challenges.

Fortunately, Vivisimo's Information Optimization Platform, provides capabilities that improve information access, re-use and collaboration across the full range of government activities. From internal knowledge portals that enhance agency performance to intelligence analysis, military operations and public-facing websites, Velocity helps government agencies fulfill their missions and deliver value to taxpayers. Vivisimo helps the federal government in four distinct areas:

• Civilian Enterprise: Vivisimo helps civilian agencies to achieve their missions by improving access and re-use of information, as well as collaboration, for large numbers of knowledge workers.
• E-Government: Vivisimo-powered public websites help government agencies to reduce costs, increase transparency and improve citizen access to information and services.
• Defense: Vivisimo helps 21st century defense agencies to improve both planning and execution through better access to information and collaboration at all levels of the command chain.
• Intelligence: Vivisimo is helping intelligence agencies to fight "the long war" against terrorism and connect the dots by providing a single, unified view across all of their information sources, regardless of location and format.

What is Information Optimization?

Information Optimization is the process of finding insights across multiple systems and then delivering the right information to enable better business decisions that solve operating challenges and create economic value.  The Velocity Platform helps organizations achieve information optimization through information connectivity and contextual intelligence that then enables organizational capabilities.

Top Ten Ways Information Optimization is Helping the Federal Government:

1. Research and Development: Government R&D thrives on information: scientific information, economic information, demographic information, market information and the access top researchers in all areas of knowledge. To be at the forefront of innovation, government agencies and federally-funded R&D organizations need complete visibility into both new and historical information across the entire enterprise, as well as access to research from external premium information services. 

2. Making government more responsive: Quick access to relevant information is pivotal to government call centers just as it is in the private sector. The Velocity platform provides intuitive, easy to learn tools create a more responsive and accessible government. At the Social Security Administration, Vivisimo's Velocity helps advisors to provide quick and reliable assistance by automatically organizing information in more than 50,000 documents for better access to information.

3. Socializing enterprise search:  Through Air Force Knowledge Now, service members are able to tag, annotate, rate and share search results leading to greater collaboration among the armed forces.

4. Logistics/Supply Chain: Ensuring that supply matches the demand requires more than simply monitoring inventory, especially in the public sector. It requires greater transparency across all stages of the supply chain from gathering and specifying mission requirements, to supplier management, to prototyping, to quality assurance, and finally to distribution logistics. Vivisimo's Velocity Platform helps deliver collaboration, cohesion, and agility to the supply chain by streamlining operational inquiries and improving overall information visibility.

5. Intelligence: Vital information has always been gold standard in today's intelligence operations, but today that information has been optimized to improve our access to the most relevant data,  providing decision makers with the quality intelligence they need to make critical national security decisions. Velocity supports this mission by providing secure, domain-wide federated search across multiple heterogeneous data sets for all source investigation and discovery by multiple defense and intelligence agencies.

6. Improved national defense: By incorporating collaboration and user-generated content into the Velocity platform, armed services, like the Air Force, have altered the traditional education system at its very core.

7. Transparency: Providing E-government solutions that empower civilians with access to critical government information has helped facilitate political and social dialogue across a variety of federal departments.

8. Healthcare: When citizens have questions about their health they need rapid and precise access to reliable information at any time of the day or night. That's why the National Library of Medicine used Vivisimo's Velocity to create MedlinePlus, which makes it easy for citizens to search and navigate a large and media-rich collection of trusted medical information.  

9. Safety: Information optimization has helped government institutions realize their operational potential, but not at the cost of the security of information. Vivisimo's advanced security features ensures that individuals inside the government see only the information they are authorized to view.

10. Environmental progress: By enabling distribution content rich biodiversity information, Vivisimo is helping fuel cutting edge research that underlies many federal geological and ecological initiatives.

About Vivisimo, Inc.

Vivisimo provides enterprises with information optimization solutions that help maximize the business value of information.  Unlike traditional information management products, Vivisimo's innovative solutions help end-users find and take advantage of all appropriate and available information, regardless of source, location or type. Vivisimo's innovative technology is delivered with a focus on end-user satisfaction and application control through easy-to-use interfaces, flexible security management and a modern architecture that enables quick deployment. Vivisimo products are available as standalone information optimization applications or as OEM versions embedded within partner applications and solutions. Vivisimo serves its clients from headquarters in Pittsburgh, USA, and through partners around the world. Visit Vivisimo.com for more information.  

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