Information Technology

For Government Agencies, Smart IT Decisions are Critical to Success
As someone with a lot of experience in government, you know how difficult it is to keep up with demands and expectations placed on your organization. At the same time, you're always striving to improve efficiency, enhance customer service and enable information sharing within your organization, as well as externally — with the citizens you serve, the other agencies you share information with and the interested stakeholders who use your information.

Is your current technology infrastructure rife with challenges? You may have multiple systems that don't talk to each other, requiring tedious, timeconsuming manual steps to get things done. Instead of a single, integrated database, do you have disconnected islands of data, often with the same information stored in a number of locations? Do you struggle with systems that can't link with newer technologies and are not supported by their vendors?

Ineffective use of information technology can present a significant barrier to achieving your vision for your organization. Your staff strives to be responsive, but do they constantly run into brick walls trying to get the information they need? Do they question the accuracy of their data? Without the right tools to do their job, staff morale can suffer.

Experienced Government IT Consultants Can Help You Maximize Your Investment
Achieving your vision for your department or agency demands smart IT decisions that enable you to solve your current problems while establishing an integrated technology foundation to support your future vision. When you partner with an experienced consultant that specializes in enabling government agencies to optimize their processes with the most appropriate technologies, you get the following benefits:

• Increased return on technology investments by tailoring IT solutions to satisfy your exact needs;
  
• Enhanced ability to scale technology investments appropriately, avoiding over-investing;
  
• Improved alignment between your processes and your technology;
  
• Greater confidence that your systems are providing current, accurate information;
  
• Faster and more effective service to citizens, employees and other interested stakeholders; and
  
• Improved staff morale by providing the right tools to do their job well.

A Complete Information Technology Solution
Crowe's team of highly experienced systems technology consultants is dedicated full-time to serving government agencies like yours. Our government IT consultants are skilled at analyzing problems and opportunities — before any solutions are considered — then guiding our clients through a cost/benefit analysis of alternative solutions. We focus on your processes and help you implement the appropriate information technology to improve your efficiency, increase your controls or reduce your risks.

Crowe's government agency IT experts provide tailored solutions in the following areas:

• Software Product Implementation,
• Custom Application Development (Intranets and Extranets),
• Systems Integration,
• Document Management,
• Data Capture,
• Workflow and 
• Database Consolidation and Reporting.

Our breadth of experience with technology solutions enables us to objectively analyze your needs, offer independent advice on available technologies and lay out practical next steps. At Crowe, our top priority is your long-term success.

Crowe's Credentials: Thought Leaders and Strategic Advisors
Crowe Chizek is the 8th largest U.S. accounting and business consulting firm specializing in assurance, consulting, risk management and information technology services for state and local government. Our government consulting group includes former elected officials who understand both your political and business needs. Our experienced process analysts are experts at designing optimized, end-to-end processes for government agencies. And our information technology consultants, who have been providing solutions to government entities for more than 25 years know how to enable those integrated processes with the most appropriate technologies. Crowe's government systems technology group includes professionals certified in all major development and networking software. Our team offers hundreds of years of combined IT consulting experience.  In short, you can trust we have the depth of experience you need and that we'll be around to support you for the long term.