Harden cybersecurity through process improvement

Organization and project team to-dos for compliance and accreditation Cybersecurity is one of the most prominent risk factors for commercial companies, government agencies, and individual users of systems and services1. This is partly because cybersecurity faces multiple risk vectors such as ins...

Begin with the end in mind: How to achieve Section 508 success

By factoring in UI/UX design upfront and building to these accessibility best practices, you will significantly reduce technical debt and rework. In the transition to digital, the Government is automating routine workflow processes. Agencies are digitizing vast amounts of paper files, ch...

Build Modern Mission Solutions Faster with DesignOps

Automate complex design operations and focus on creating a useful and intuitive product Coordinating new and ongoing engineering and analytics efforts can be a complex process fraught with an abundance of "cooks in the kitchen," highly specific mission requirements, resource options, and m...

Bake Security into Your Solutions

Make DevSecOps an integral part of the software development lifecycle Security is a must for today’s mission applications Software is developed using a set of practices known as DevOps (Development and Operations). The processes are automated so teams can build, test, and release software...

Bring Speed to Solution with Automated and Integrated Operations

Our NEXTOps℠ Framework streamlines and scales to keep things modern and eliminate technical debt Situation analysis In today’s fast-paced and evolving development environment, manual processes that churn out software deployment, machine learning, software integration, and data engineering a...

What You Need to Know Now for Successful Telework

Crisis has a way of forcing innovation, testing readiness, and laying a foundation for "new norms." At the time when the COVID-19 outbreak officially entered the United States in late January 2020, more than 43% of working-age individuals categorized themselves as ‘remote’ employees, 56% of bus...

Take an Iterative Approach to Digital Transformation

We’re seeing the number, type, performance, and sophistication of advanced and low code artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions proliferating at lightning speed. Despite the wide availability and options for these technologies, government agencies may not be leveraging them. Some...

Clear Organizational Need and Process are Vital to RPA Success

Over the last decade, automation technologies have become generally ubiquitous across almost every sector and field. A 2019 study co-led by The Economist Intelligence Unit found that more than 90% of private-sector organizations around the globe are replacing manual tasks with machine-operated ...

Digital Transformation and Telework are Improving the Workforce

The ubiquity of connectivity, increasingly portable and robust computing power, and more attentiveness put to security measures like dual authentication and biometric logins have fueled a corporate shift that has big cultural and economic implications. Organizations are embracing a flexible telew...

Case Study: Digital Transformation Eliminates Inefficiency and Waste

In 2014, a federal agency approached NT Concepts with a request to help them transition from a paper to a digital environment. In particular, the Agency was seeking to digitize its vast paper files and modernize its processes for handling the ever-growing workload. In this case study, we’ll discu...