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Upleveling your government agency with shared services
Executive summary
As threats to cybersecurity rise and federal agencies are pressed to grow and scale programs with fewer resources, the modernization of both technology and practices has never been more critical. Managing the combined pressure to meet ambitious goals centered on efficiency and growth at scale while following executive orders to enhance national cybersecurity leaves many agencies with a heavy weight to bear.
Modernizing federal IT security through shared services
Today, many federal teams run multiple instances of their mission-critical products to maintain the security of their data, but this often leads to higher infrastructure costs, redundancies, and less efficient staff. By consolidating these instances and moving to a shared service, your agency can develop the best practices necessary to reach your IT goals and follow executive orders around cybersecurity.
Shared services offer a solution that enables you to manage your teams on a singular platform - without compromising the security of any one team’s data. Atlassian has purpose-built Data Center, our self-managed enterprise edition, with the advanced capabilities you need to implement modern frameworks along with features that enable you to control and grow your security.
In this guide, we’ll dive into the benefits of leveraging a shared service on Data Center, along with recommendations on how to approach implemention.
Key takeaways
Understand how shared services help federal agencies reach their strategic IT goals
Learn about the benefits of modernizing government agencies for a more secure and efficient technology infrastructure
Identify the steps federal teams can take to implement a shared service on Data Center
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Upleveling your government agency with shared services
As threats to cybersecurity rise and federal agencies are pressed to grow and scale programs with fewer resources, the modernization of both technology and practices has never been more critical. Managing the combined pressure to meet ambitious goals centered on efficiency and growth at scale while following executive orders to enhance national cybersecurity bear a heavy weight on many agencies.
One of the best ways for government agencies to be able to modernize and attain the aforementioned priorities is to leverage a shared service. Shared services must be deployed on Data Center, giving government agencies the opportunity to either leverage a current shared service or upgrade to Data Center and spin one up.
What is a shared service?
Instead of running multiple versions of your product, a shared service enables you to consolidate them into a singular version, or instance. This becomes a centralized point of service for all of its users. This singular system offers insight into all of your agency’s programs, without compromising the security of any one team’s data.
Because these shared services must deploy on Data Center, when agencies upgrade from Server to Data Center they gain the ability to modernize both their tech stack and their practices to leverage both the design and features within Data Center. This modernization drives increased security and efficiency at scale. Further, these upgrades also often reduce infrastructure costs, remove redundancies, and enable you to reallocate staff to other mission-critical initiatives.
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