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Unlike a few years ago, U.S. federal civilian agencies are not seeing double-digit annual growth in information technology spending. But moderate growth is still underway. Some of these spending increases are happening because agencies face significant ongoing expenses related to maintaining legacy systems.

Source: A Call for Change: Moderate Federal IT Spending Growth Masks the Ongoing Burden of Legacy Systems – IDC Community

This week, IDC Government Insights announced the results of its 2017 IDC Government Top 50 Vendor Rankings. These rankings use a standardized methodology to publish the estimated IT revenue of the top vendors serving the U.S. federal government. IDC examines thousands of different federal IT contracts, and then isolates the spending by fiscal year. We send our estimates to the companies for their consideration and potential feedback.

Source: Top 50 Government IT Vendors List Announced by IDC Government Insights – IDC Community

Some interesting long-term trends are taking shape within U.S. federal government IT spending. The changes are sure to have an impact on agencies’ ability to comply with requirements set forth by the Data Center Consolidation Initiative (DCOI), which came out of OMB a little over 13 months ago. A new set of deadlines for DCOI are slated to kick in this fall. But are they properly funded?

Source: Federal IT Budget: Growing, But Not Focused on DCOI Compliance – IDC Community

Governments are confronted with a complex context driving them to come up with new policies, service delivery models, and operational excellence practices. Digital transformation will be the force underpinning the ability to seize the opportunities and manage the risks in this environment. The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Government 2017 Predictions document predicts the top 10 trends that will impact government departments and agencies worldwide that are engaged in a digital transformation journey aimed at:

– Improving the citizen experience
– Harnessing the power of data
– Leveraging the power of 3rd Platform technologies to enable agile innovation and sustainable scalability of secure systems

Source: 10 Predictions for the Worldwide Government Industry 2017 – IDC Community