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Lisle, IL August 17, 2022:   

AST is proud to announce being recognized, for the second year in a row, as one of the national winners of 2022 Top Workplaces USA! It is an honor to receive this award as a testament to AST’s commitment to our Core Values (Quality, Innovation, Customer Success) and Leadership Tenets (Teamwork, Trust, Accountability, Integrity, and Resiliency). We are beyond grateful for our excellent team as they made this recognition for our workplace possible. 

“Our people are at the center of everything at AST,” stated Justin Winter, AST’s Chief Executive Officer, “It’s about living our core values and elevating in every way in an environment where our people feel safe and a part of something extraordinary. We want employees to be excited about who they are working with and the purposeful work they are doing. The commitment from myself, and our entire leadership team is to prioritize our people. It’s all about our people”.  

For over 27 years at AST, people have been the center of everything we do. AST fosters a culture of inclusivity and innovation at every level of the organization. All doors are open, and everyone’s ideas matter, allowing our people to quickly understand our customers’ needs and translate those needs into action. Through listening and acknowledging employees, our workplace is a safe place where employees can take risks, learn new skills, and elevate their careers as thought leaders. While the team leads purposeful digital transformation for our clients, the AST Leadership Team works to ensure competitive benefits, equitable career opportunities, healthy work-life balance, and recognition for the AST Team.  

“I hold myself and the entire leadership team responsible for our engagement survey results as well as the overall employee sentiment. While we’re proud to be recognized, AST’s work is not done; it’s continuous improvement. We’re working to continuously make this a great place for our people, where employees can elevate themselves and  build long-term dynamic careers, “ pledged Chief People Officer Teresa Stanula.   

  

About Top Workplaces Program   

Top Workplaces is a nationwide employee recognition program powered by Energage that seeks to identify and recognize organizations with a people-first culture. Energage has been studying and surveying tens of thousands of organizations over the past 15 years and knows what traits a great place to work for has. Top Workplaces has regional and national programs as well as culture excellence and industry awards. Top Workplaces are defined based on compensation, benefits, work-life balance, coaching, and prospects. The Top Workplaces program honors people-driven organizations that ensure their workplaces are fantastic places to work and grow.  

Energage has spent 15 years studying organizations with a people-first culture. The company has been researching culture for 15 years, has measured 23,000,000 employee voices, has hit 450,000,000 data points, has surveyed 70,000 organizations, and has granted six patents. Top Workplaces are evaluated based on a powerful survey created with extensive research and patented analytics.  

 

About Applications Software Technology (AST) LLC   

AST is an award-winning, full-service enterprise solution provider, guiding digital transformation for clients in the Government and Commercial Sectors for more than two decades. Clients look to AST for leadership and assistance in transforming their organizations via software solutions, process engineering, and change management.  From cloud technology to legacy on-premises applications, AST’s services encompass all aspects of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. AST also offers flexible Managed Services, supporting the needs of over 200 customers around the globe.    

  

 

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Lisle, IL January 31, 2022:   AST today announces that its Pune, India location has been recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work® for Best Small and Mid-Sized Organizations in India. This comes on the heels of AST being named a nationwide winner of the ‘Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®’, 2021, and a Top Workplace for the third consecutive year.

The Great Place to Work® Certification recognizes AST India as an organization that develops and empowers its people to perform to their fullest ability. Ninety-four percent of employees agree that AST is a great place to work – a direct result of the organization putting its people first, providing competitive compensation, and fostering an engaging culture.

“Our people make the difference every day, and our overall success is all about the success of our people,” says Justin Winter, CEO at AST. “I am beyond proud to be part of a team that uplifts and supports each other. Together as OneAST, we have created a unique and inclusive workplace. Thank you to our people for making this achievement a reality, year after year.”

People are the center of everything at AST. All doors are open and everyone’s opinions matter, giving AST’s people the ability to quickly understand customer needs and turn those needs into action. AST fosters a culture of inclusivity and innovation at every level of the organization with its leadership tenets as a guide: Teamwork, Trust, Accountability, Integrity, and Resiliency. The results reveal AST’s strengths and reflect the Core Values that AST operates on – Quality, Innovation, and Customer Success.

“Our company culture is our competitive advantage,” states Vidya Khedekar, Senior Vice President of AST’s Global Delivery Center. “At AST, we are more than a team; we are a family that collaborates, innovates, and grows together. Our team is key to our success – they champion the AST Core Values and Leadership Tenets. Being recognized as a Great Place to Work is a true testament to that.”

“To be Certified as a Great Place to Work is directly attributed to the team at AST,” says Teresa Stanula, Chief People Officer at AST. “People are the center of everything. We will continuously evolve the future workplace; AST will always be an inclusive, engaging, and inspiring workplace for all to elevate their careers.”

About Great Place to Work®

Great Place to Work® is a global authority on building, sustaining, and recognizing High-Trust, High-Performance CultureTM at workplaces. The organization has surveyed millions of employees and examined thousands of the best workplaces around the globe. It serves businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in more than 60 countries across six continents, helping them to build, sustain, and scale great cultures. The Great Place to Work® Institute has conducted pioneering research on the characteristics of great workplaces for over 30 years.

 

About Applications Software Technology (AST) LLC

AST is an award-winning, full-service enterprise solution provider, guiding digital transformation for clients in the Government and Commercial Sectors for more than two decades. Clients look to AST for leadership and assistance in transforming their organizations via software solutions, process engineering, and change management. From cloud technology to legacy on-premises applications, AST’s services encompass all aspects of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. AST also offers flexible Managed Services, supporting the needs of over 200 customers around the globe.

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Lisle, IL December 10, 2021:  AST today announces that it has been named a winner of the 2021 Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation® award. 

The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® is a program conducted by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR), recognizing companies that demonstrate exceptional, innovative human resource practices and set high standards for all businesses.  The NABR identifies best Human Resource practices and provides benchmarking for companies to remain leaders in employment standards.  Only companies that create and maintain an innovative, people-first culture are granted this recognition.

“We strive to create a culture our people are proud to be a part of because we deeply value employee experience,” says Teresa Stanula, Chief People Officer at AST. “Our people are our most important asset, so we make every effort to positively drive change and impact the workplace. By continually investing in our people’s ability to innovate, collaborate, and learn, we inspire the AST workplace of the future.”

AST fosters a culture of inclusivity and innovation at every level of the organization with its leadership tenets: Teamwork, Trust, Accountability, Integrity, and Resiliency. All doors are open and everyone’s ideas matter, giving AST’s people the ability to quickly understand customer needs and translate those needs into action. The results reveal AST’s strengths and reflect its Core Values of Quality, Innovation, and Customer Success.

“Being named one of 2021’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work for both honors our employees and highlights AST’s commitment to cultural excellence,” states Justin Winter, AST CEO.  “We are relentless to not only preserve a culture of teamwork, gratitude, and success at every level of the organization, but also to ensure our pledge of ‘People at the Center of Everything We Do.’”

About the Best and Brightest to Work For® Program

The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® is a national program that provides recognition within the business community, showcasing best practices and demonstrating why its winners are ideal for employees. The program celebrates companies doing better business, creating richer lives, and building stronger communities. Awards are presented annually in several markets, including nationally.

About Applications Software Technology (AST) LLC

AST is an award-winning, full-service enterprise solution provider, guiding digital transformation for clients in the Government and Commercial Sectors for more than two decades.  Clients look to AST for leadership and assistance in transforming their organizations via software solutions, process engineering, and change management.  From cloud technology to legacy on-premises applications, AST’s services encompass all aspects of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.  AST also offers flexible Managed Services, supporting the needs of over 200 customers around the globe.

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The financial services, or “finserv,” industry comprises insurance companies, mortgage lenders, financial institutions, credit unions, and other companies providing financial services to individuals, businesses, and nonprofits. The systems these firms operate on are often just as diverse as their industry, and largely siloed to boot. This makes it challenging to access data, keep sensitive information secure, comply with governmental regulations, benefit from next-generation technology, and seize new business opportunities.

For example, without a unified database to work from, even different departments within one company can’t access accurate financial data, ensure appropriate levels of security, or provide a satisfactory customer experience.

In most cases, startup finserv companies use on-premises “custom homegrown” technology systems or basic ERP solutions like QuickBooks or Sage Intacct — all of which are unsustainable approaches for growing financial services operations. To gain access to new tech capabilities, many tack on unintegrated, third-party applications, like Visa’s payment authorization platform, authorize.net.

Unfortunately, these add-on solutions rarely integrate directly with core business systems, creating more manual work and forcing finserv companies to rely on spreadsheets and other means of transferring data in and out of their disparate, unintegrated solutions. That just compounds the problems raised by a lack of automation and inefficient processes.

Navigating Complexity

Guilherme Barros Castro, the company’s CEO, comes from a long line of agronomic engineers, including both parents and great-grandparents who pioneered that profession in Brazil.

Finservs are turning to automation to tackle the complexities of their evolving businesses and better meet their customers’ changing demands. Oracle NetSuite and its Alliance partner Computer Technology Resources (CTR) (Now AST) help improve finserv companies’ operations in four key ways:

1. Reduce manual work and errors. Maintaining legacy systems, creating spreadsheets for data sharing, and generally trying to run a growing company on disparate, unintegrated systems is inefficient and costly, and worse, it leaves the firm at a competitive disadvantage. The more processes that these organizations can automate with NetSuite, the more time their team members have for more important projects. This is a key win for finservs that are scaling up to meet customer demand at a time when labor is hard to come by and expensive to retain.

“We have one finserv customer that was processing about 10,000 transactions a month on its on-premises systems,” said Adam Cohen, sales director at AST. “That translates into a minimum of 50,000 transactions because each loan has at least five or six dependent transactions.”

Those may include invoice, receipt, bank reconciliation, lender payoff, bill payments, bills for additional services, payments to title companies, and more.

Working with these systems was laborious and error prone. Mistakes took a lot of time to fix, and projects required constant rework. AST has developed a comprehensive loan management solution for loan marketplaces that automates funding and payoff transactions within NetSuite.

“With NetSuite’s highly extensible platform, we were able to build out a solution that solved these problems and automate their transaction management,” said Cohen. “We used NetSuite’s native developer toolset to create a comprehensive loan management solution for loan marketplaces, which automates funding and payoff transactions within NetSuite.”

2. Manage multiple subsidiaries. Finserv companies often operate using multiple legal entities. A wealth management advisory firm may sell mutual funds, insurance, and tax preparation services via subsidiaries, for example, and could provide those products from numerous physical locations. A finserv that has many different legal entities under its corporate umbrella needs an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform like NetSuite to simplify and manage its intercompany transactions, accounting entries, and other financial management needs.

“Intercompany accounting is a major headache for any finserv that is using a custom homegrown system or QuickBooks,” said Pankaj Mundra, Vice President at AST.  “QuickBooks can’t handle much on the consolidation and intercompany side.”

NetSuite supports intercompany accounting and eliminations, while AST further extends the ERP’s capabilities by automating all of those transactions according to its clients’ needs. AST’s multi-subsidiary payment and receipt workbench, for example, automates complex intercompany transactions, collections and payments within NetSuite, helping to solve this critical process component.

3. Maintain high levels of data security. Because finservs manage high volumes of sensitive data, they must comply with strict regulatory requirements —both state and federal — while also meeting their own customers’ data security expectations. They’re also highly targeted with fraud, cyberattacks, and other crimes focused on exploiting consumers’ financial data.

Meeting these requirements is getting more and more difficult for growing finservs that store data across numerous disconnected software solutions. By centralizing their operations within NetSuite, AST helps these companies leverage a highly secure platform that enables safe, secure data management with access tightly regulated according to the role of each employee. Because it’s automatically updated twice a year, NetSuite helps finservs stay on top of constantly evolving global regulatory and compliance changes.

4. Plan for what’s coming next. Blockchain, AI, machine learning, big data and robotics are just a few technologies that are disrupting the finserv space right now. Whether using blockchain for financial transactions or testing out customer service robots, these companies need unified technology systems to manage their evolving business operations.

“If they really want to scale their businesses, finservs have to be responsive to what’s coming down the pike in terms of technology,” said Cohen. “With a software provider like NetSuite in their corner, these companies can effectively address those concerns and plan for what’s coming next.”

Finservs that continue running their operations on custom homegrown systems, disparate applications and basic solutions like QuickBooks will soon find themselves left behind and struggling to make up ground. By choosing NetSuite for financial services and working with an implementation partner like AST to further extend the ERP’s capabilities, finservs get a unified platform that runs their end-to-end operations, automates core processes, lessens their reliance on new hires, and helps them navigate the complexities of their ever-evolving industry.

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AST today announces that its Pune, India location has been recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work® for Best Small and Mid-Sized Organizations in India. This award comes on the heels of AST being recognized as India’s Best Workplaces for Women 2022 by Great Place to Work®. AST India has received four Great Place to Work® Certifications over the past three years.

The Great Place to Work® Certification recognizes AST India as an employee-first organization that empowers people to discover and grow to their full potential. AST India strives to create a diverse and inclusive workplace culture that brings innovation,  employee satisfaction, and loyalty. By embracing diversity, AST India’s culture allows everyone to thrive.

“We have focused our efforts on supporting our people’s success by giving them the tools to grow professionally and personally,” says Justin Winter, CEO at AST. “I am beyond proud of AST India and honored to be a part of the team. Thank you to our people for all the tremendous efforts toward creating a unique and inclusive workplace where everyone can succeed.”

All doors are open, and everyone’s opinions matter, allowing AST’s people to understand customer needs and turn those needs into accelerated outcomes. AST fosters a culture of inclusivity and innovation at every level of the organization with its leadership tenets as a guide: Teamwork, Trust, Accountability, Integrity, and Resiliency. The results reveal AST’s strengths and reflect the Core Values that AST operates on – Quality, Innovation, and Customer Success.

“We are deeply honored to receive this prestigious award, which serves as a validation of our unwavering dedication to fostering a positive and engaging workplace culture,” says Venkat Kunche, Senior Vice President of Global Delivery at AST. “Our commitment to excellence and respect for one another is deeply ingrained in our organization’s DNA.

This achievement is a testament to the hard work and passion of our incredible team, who bring their best selves to work every day and embody the core values of trust, transparency, and respect. Moving forward, we will continue to build upon this success and create an even more fulfilling work environment for our team.”

A key contributing factor to AST’s recognition as a Great Place to Work® is the quality of its managers, who lead by example and are committed to fostering open communication, providing regular feedback, and recognizing employee achievements. Outstanding leadership plays a critical role in the success of a Great Place to Work®.

“It is an honor to be recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work® year after year. This recognition says everything about our culture and is attributed to AST India’s resilience, teamwork, and determination,” says Teresa Stanula, Chief People Officer at AST. “Our people are an inspiration through their dedication and hard work. AST is grateful for the team’s contributions, achievements, and incredible culture they create.”

 

About Great Place to Work®

Great Place to Work® is a global authority building, sustaining, and recognizing High-Trust, High-Performance CultureTM at workplaces. The organization has surveyed millions of employees and examined thousands of the best workplaces around the globe. It serves businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in more than 60 countries across six continents, helping them to build, sustain, and scale great cultures. The Great Place to Work® Institute has conducted pioneering research on the characteristics of great workplaces for over 30 years.

About Applications Software Technology (AST) LLC

AST is an award-winning, full-service enterprise solution provider, guiding digital transformation for government and commercial sector clients for more than two decades. Clients look to AST for leadership and assistance in transforming their organizations via software solutions, process engineering, and change management.

From cloud technology to legacy on-premises applications, AST’s services encompass all aspects of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. AST also offers flexible Managed Services, supporting the needs of over 200 customers around the globe.

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AST announced today the acquisition of Computer Technology Resources, Inc. (CTR) to further expand the breadth of AST’s service offerings in the Oracle and adjacent cloud ecosystems.

The addition of CTR strengthens AST’s vertical expertise across numerous commercial industries, including manufacturing and healthcare. The acquisition also expands AST’s capabilities across the Oracle Cloud Application and Platform ecosystems, including Supply Chain, Analytics, and NetSuite.

CTR President and Managing Partner Pankaj Mundra will take the role of Vice President at AST and play an active part in expanding the combined business.

Read the full Press Release here.

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Pune, India September 26, 2022: AST today announces that its Pune, India location has been recognized as one of India’s Best Workplaces™ for Women 2022 by Great Place to Work®. India’s Best Workplaces™ for Women recognizes AST India as an organization that develops and encourages women to perform to their greatest ability. AST strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that inspires and motivates women to lead the future. AST India has also received three Great Place to Work® Certifications in the past two years.

“We have a culture of respect at AST for all people that empowers women to bring their authentic selves to work daily with a strong sense of community and purpose,” says Justin Winter, Chief Executive Officer at AST. “Our team encourages others to reach their goals, continuously promotes employee development, and strongly supports and develops women.”

People are the center of everything at AST. All doors are open, and everyone’s opinions matter, giving AST’s people the ability to quickly understand customer needs and turn those needs into action. AST fosters a culture of inclusivity and innovation at every level of the organization with its leadership tenets as a guide: Teamwork, Trust, Accountability, Integrity, and Resiliency. The results reveal AST’s strengths and reflect the Core Values that AST operates on – Quality, Innovation, and Customer Success. Read the full press release here.

About Applications Software Technology (AST) LLC

AST is an award-winning, full-service enterprise solutions provider, guiding digital transformation for clients in the government and commercial sectors for more than two decades. Clients look to AST for leadership and assistance in transforming their organizations via software solutions, process engineering, and change management. From cloud technology to legacy on-premises applications, AST’s services encompass all aspects of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. AST also offers flexible Managed Services, supporting the needs of over 200 customers around the globe.

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Dallas, TX April 19, 2022:  AST is proud to announce that we have been named as one of Dallas Fort Worth’s 2022 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® is a national program that allows businesses to gain recognition, showcase their best practices, and display why they are the ideal company for employees.  

Throughout the Dallas Fort Worth area, companies compete to be recognized as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® because of the award’s prestige and impact on recruiting top talent. Only companies with the most innovative and effective human resource practices are able to earn this designation.  

With over 20 years of experience conducting the Best and Brightest competitions, the National Association for Business Resources (NABR) has identified numerous best Human Resource practices and provided benchmarking for companies that remain leaders in employment standards. An independent research firm evaluates each company’s entry based on a variety of categories.  

Categories include Compensation, Benefits, and Employee Solutions; Employee Enrichment, Engagement, and Retention; Employee Education and Development; Recruitment, Selection, and Orientation; Employee Achievement and Recognition; Communication and Shared Vision; Diversity and Inclusion; Work-Life Balance; Community Initiatives and Strategic Company Performance.  

“My team and I are committed to our people. Every day we work to improve our people practices by gathering feedback and actively listening to our people. At AST, people are the center of everything and every decision made. We will continue to constantly evolve our people practices to reflect our people’s ever-changing workplace environments and opportunities,” stated Teresa Stanula, Chief People Officer at AST LLC.  

At AST, we foster a culture of inclusivity and innovation at every level of the organization with our leadership tenets to guide us: Teamwork, Trust, Accountability, Integrity, and Resiliency. All doors are open, and everyone’s ideas matter, giving our people the ability to quickly understand our customers’ needs and translate those needs into action. The results reveal our strengths and reflect the Core Values AST operates on: Quality, Innovation, and Customer Success.  

“It is an honor to be recognized as a Best and Brightest Company. Our unique culture gives our people the strength to do their very best for our customers. At AST, we have our own culture that is second to none, and we take great pride in that. I am committed, dedicated, and willing to go above and beyond for our people at AST to make sure they have the best possible experience with many opportunities,” pledged Justin Winter, CEO at AST LLC. 

About the Best and Brightest to Work For® Program  

The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® is a national program that allows the business community to gain recognition, showcase their best practices, and demonstrate why they are ideal for employees. This regional program celebrates those companies doing better business, creating richer lives, and building a stronger community in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.   

 

About Applications Software Technology (AST) LLC  

AST is an award-winning, full-service enterprise solution provider, guiding digital transformation for clients in the Government and Commercial Sectors for more than two decades.  Clients look to AST for leadership and assistance in transforming their organizations via software solutions, process engineering, and change management.  From cloud technology to legacy on-premises applications, AST’s services encompass all aspects of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.  AST also offers flexible Managed Services, supporting the needs of over 200 customers around the globe.   

 

 

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AST’s Senior Vice President, Head of Global Delivery Center, Vidya Khedekar, has received the Women of Excellence Award by the Indian Achievers’ Forum in recognition of her outstanding professional achievement and contributions in nation-building. 

The Indian Achievers’ Forum awards people of Indian origin who make considerable contributions and lead worldwide in their professions with excellent achievements. The Women of Excellence Award is presented to the most eminent Indian women achievers who have made a place for themselves in their careers and are trailblazers in making a difference in society.  

This year, Vidya celebrated ten years of service with AST. She is a staple of excellence in our Global Delivery Center and, during her journey, has championed innovation, transformation, and development.  

“Over the years, I’ve led the charge in strengthening our skills and collaborations to transform our Offshore center into a full-fledged, well-established Global Delivery Center,” says Khedekar. “I am committed to delivering the best for our people and clients! I am grateful to be a part of such a trustworthy, eccentric organization. I have learned valuable lessons, and without my remarkable team at AST, I would not have achieved such greatness. I am honored to have been awarded the Women of Excellence Award, and I thank AST for allowing me to excel in my career.” 

Vidya is an accomplished Information Technology Management Executive skilled in Practice Building, Portfolio Growth, Project Delivery, Strategic Consulting, and Industry Solution Development, with a proven track record of success. Ms. Khedekar holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from the College of Engineering, Pune University, and a Master of Business Administration degree in Management Science from Pune University, Pune, India. 

She also has multiple certifications, including Project Management Professional (PMP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) APICS Certification, and a Six Sigma Certification. 

With her experience incubating new practices and working with emerging markets, Ms. Khedekar has built a highly resourceful delivery team. In addition to supporting AST’s North American teams, Ms. Khedekar also completes large stand-alone projects. She engages directly with clients to support a broad spectrum of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions. 

She has led complex, global IT systems integration programs across multiple industries and with various technologies, with teams of over 500 people. She has worked with multicultural teams for successful end-to-end cloud and digital services implementations, transitions, services, and operations. 

As a leader in digital transformation, Vidya strongly advocates for women’s empowerment and representation. She supports the women at AST by providing an inclusive ecosystem in which to operate, where women have opportunities to grow their careers and achieve their dreams. 

Furthermore, she brought together the AST India team, for International Women’s Day 2021, to volunteer at Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha (MKSSS), a non-profit organization focused on transforming the lives of underprivileged women through education.  

Vidya is highly regarded and respected by her team, customers, and colleagues across the industry. She inspires others to dream, learn, do, and become more.  

About the Indian Achievers’ Forum 

The Indian Achievers’ Forum has recognized the outstanding achievements of Indians across the globe since 2000. The organization brings individuals from various professions together on a common platform and honors them for their exceptional work.   

Every year, champions of Indian origin are nominated for Excellence Awards. Only champions who stand apart in society and have achieved great heights in their professions are recognized for Excellence Awards. The winners and their stories are featured in the Achievers’ World magazine. The publication is the first of its kind and has been sharing the stories of trailblazers for over a decade.  

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Government organizations have been at the forefront of disruption caused by the pandemic, working furiously to continue operations and serve the public.  While remote work, constituent self-services, automation, and other digital transformation initiatives once seemed elusive and deferrable, they have quickly become indispensable in the face of social distancing and unprecedented constituent needs. 

AST has partnered with the Center for Digital Government (CDG), a division of e.Republic, to conduct a market survey of key IT leaders across state and local government agencies on the topic of Purposeful Digital Transformation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The survey demonstrates the rising importance of digital transformation and a recognized need to adopt more digital services for citizens. 

Key findings from the survey include: 

  • Digital transformation has become more important or mission critical for 82% of agencies across all levels of government since the COVID-19 pandemic 
  • More than a quarter of respondents say an improved citizen experience is the top need that drives their digital transformation efforts 
  • Many respondents remain unsure of where to begin their digital transformation journey: 
  • 45% of government leaders, at all levels of government, do not know where their funding will come from 
  • 43% do not know which technologies, applications, or solutions their agency will procure after the pandemic 

These results suggest the need for a roadmap to guide government leaders toward a more purposeful digital transformation.   

The survey findings serve as the foundation for an in-depth guide, Accelerating Digital Transformation to Navigate Business Disruption, in which AST and CDG examine how agencies can map their best path to the cloud, embrace the new digital workforce, and leverage AI and automation to “do more with less”, based on the new needs of employees and citizens post-pandemic.   

Providing digital services not only improves the citizen experience, but also helps governments overcome issues faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare them for future disruptive events. 

Contact AST today to learn how our team of experts can accelerate your digital transformation to effectively navigate business disruption. 

The Center for Digital Government, a division of e.Republic, is a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. Through its diverse and dynamic programs and services, the Center provides public and private sector leaders with decision support, knowledge, and opportunities to help them effectively incorporate new technologies in the 21st century. 

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