OPEN to innovation.
Interoperability drives innovation within a thriving IT industry, creating technologies that improve citizen services and government efficiency. Governments and businesses alike are looking to new technologies, like cloud services, to enable innovative offerings.
Open data
There is a growing list of Microsoft products that implement the Open Data (OData) Protocol.
See articles by Dan Kasun, Doug Purdy, and examples of how OData is opening new opportunities including iPhone and Java interoperability; and how governments are delivering citizen value including Europe‘s Eye On Earth project and Vancouver‘s Open Data project.
eHealth and interoperability
See how interoperability in healthcare (video) is making eHealth a reality at University of Cleveland and Swedish Red Cross.
Liberating data
Microsoft on the issues (blogs):
- Tear Down the Walls and Liberate the Data, by Peter Neupert
- Liberate the Data Part II, Perspectives from Eclipsys & Microsoft on Health, by Peter Neupert
Spotlight
Interoperability Executive Customer Council Cloud Computing Use Cases
This whitepaper outlines ten of the most common cloud computing use cases from a practical, objective point of view based on customer experience. It helps architects, product designers, and policy makers to understand evolving needs as customers move to cloud computing.
Interoperability Executive Customer Council: A Collaboration with Microsoft
Microsoft established the Interoperability Executive Customer (IEC) Council in June 2006 as a means of regularly interacting with customers to obtain valuable feedback regarding their specific interoperability requirements. This whitepaper details the activities and progress of each of the IEC Council's interoperability work streams.
Microsoft Cloud Basics for US Government: Getting Started
Government organizations can apply cloud-based services to improve transparency while addressing administration goals of scalable, interactive citizen portals; collaborate more easily across organizations; deliver volumes of data to citizens in useful ways; maximize focus on mission-critical needs while reducing IT costs; and remain confident in a crisis because cloud applications don't depend on agency servers or on-site staff. With so much opportunity, the hard part can be deciding where the cloud can provide the greatest benefits.
W3C Announces Process Innovations Making it More Authoritative And
More Agile
W3C recently announced that eight Web Services specifications have been approved as ISO/IEC. Microsoft already implements these ISO/IEC standards, especially in .NET Framework. Thus, products which layer on top of the .NET Framework can also use these standards. W3C believes that formal approval by JTC 1 of W3C standards as International Standards will increase deployment, reduce fragmentation, and provide all users with greater interoperability.
Read Microsoft's insights in preparing for the cloud transition by understanding the underlying economics driving this long term trend in a new whitepaper called, "At the The Economics of the Cloud."
Watch a series of videos covering different perspectives on cloud computing:
- Cloud computing & small enterprises – Discussions on cloud computing and the European business environment.
- Spanish View on Cloud Computing for SMEs – Insights into the benefits of cloud computing from a Spanish perspective.
- Italian View on Cloud Computing for SMEs – The Italian perspective on the potential challenges of cloud computing.
Cloud computing provides business and consumers with new IT choices while making computing more cost-effective. While the Windows Azure software platform has been built from the ground up for interoperability, recent initiatives in Europe and US are examples of how governments are transforming the way they serve their citizens on connected cloud platforms.
Microsoft brings cloud interoperability down to earth for government
An interoperable cloud could help companies cut costs and governments connect constituents. Learn more.
What is Government 2.0? (video)
e-Government Initiatives: Governments are working to establish a foundation for e-Government transformations (see presentation on e-Government transformation). Find the latest government initiatives around Cloud Computing and learn about trends and considerations in increasingly open government: Innovation, interoperability & standards (video)
