Recent Posts by William Sanders

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Oklahoma, like every other state, had to figure out a way for its mostly office-based government employees to work from home. Oracle was there to help. Within eight days of receiving a call for help, the local team and members of Oracle’s Austin-based Cloud Solutions Hub were able to design and deploy a chatbot to help Oklahoma’s newly home-based workers get productive as quickly as possible. Office workers unfamiliar with configuring IT gear...

Oracle is pleased to announce the availability of a new cloud infrastructure region in Toronto, Canada, which is now live and running customer workloads. This investment demonstrates Oracle’s strong public sector presence in Canada spanning all provinces, including significant usage by federal, provincial and municipal agencies as well as educational institutions. Oracle is trusted to solve the most significant government and technology challenges including transacting...

Each year, tens of thousands of leaders spanning multiple lines of business converge to San Francisco for one of the largest IT conferences in the world – Oracle OpenWorld. Many attendees represent public sector organizations from not only the United States, but also government agencies abroad, including: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. One of the most pressing concerns for these global public sector leaders is developing an effective plan to...

For years, cloud computing has been top-of-mind for state officials throughout the country – and many leaders recognize it’s the most efficient and economical way to achieve IT modernization. Yet, despite devoting significant time and money for cloud adoption, many government leaders still find themselves searching for the right formula to capitalize on cloud’s potential. For many state government entities, the sticking point is cloud procurement, figuring out how to buy...

Throughout my career as an Information Technology (IT) professional, I have visited many federal, state and local government agencies to explain benefits of technology modernization to both IT and line of business (LOB) leaders alike. I’ve noticed that most people easily comprehend the benefits of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) within their own technology experience. When you’re uploading photos and videos to a service for safekeeping,...

With Oracle PaaS and IaaS services achieving FedRAMP “In-Process” status – including Database Cloud Service and Java Cloud Service – I thought it would be a great time to highlight the benefits government agencies can realize by running each. In many cases, agency legacy systems started as a Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) product, but have been heavily modified to perform specific government requirements. While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products continue to gain...

Editor’s note: In the first in a series of interviews with Oracle cloud experts, Matthew O’Keefe, vice president and corporate technologist, discusses how government agencies can begin to migrate their IT systems to the cloud with William Sanders, director of modern platform strategy and business development for Oracle Public Sector.  Sanders previously served as the CIO for the Kansas Department of Labor, where he led a successful initiative to streamline the state’s...

As one of Oracle’s public sector cloud leaders, I have the opportunity to meet many federal, state and local IT professionals who believe that the future of IT lies in the creative and cost-saving features of the cloud. Gone are the days of measuring IT success by the number and size of data centers. Today, the mandate is to shrink or dismantle antiquated data centers to deliver modern cloud-based services.  But how do you get started? What kind of cloud do you need? And what...