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ASSYST is pleased to announce that we have renewed our partnership with Arlington County, Virginia. The Information Technology (IT) Professional Services contract will offer specialized services in areas such as Application Development, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, and Decision Support, Electronic Records Management, ERP HR and Financial Support, Hosting and Server Administration, Network and Telecommunications Systems and Infrastructure, Project/Program Management Support and Technical Support Services. Technology is at the core of Arlington County, one of the most densely populated jurisdictions in the country. Arlington has adopted smart growth principles along with transit-oriented development.

About ASSYST:

ASSYST's State, Local, and Education (SLED) practice is proud of the mission and focus on modernizing and supporting business and technology systems. For over 27 years, we have been part of multiple waves of technology change in the government. We have been engaged in the design, development, operation, and maintenance of business and technology systems used government functions including Executive Administration, Affordable Housing, Budget, Finance, Accounting, and Taxes, Broadband, Environmental Protection, Health and Human Services, Human Resources, Justice Systems and Courts, Open Data, Permitting Services, Public Safety, Police, Public Information, Retirement, School Systems, and Transportation. Our work has contributed to governments winning multiple National Association of Counties (NACo) and digital technology awards. ASSYST's State and Local government customers include The State of Maryland, Baltimore County, Montgomery County, Frederick County, Arlington County, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), and the City of Alexandria.

Khalil Zebdi, Executive Vice President at ASSYST, says, "Governments can now offer citizen-centric services, made possible by the broader availability of Cloud, SaaS, Data, Analytics, Intelligent Automation, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and User Experience solutions and platforms. We are very excited about the opportunity to support our government customers and help them to transition to the Smart States, Smart Counties, and Smart Cities".

A leading global development and financial institution awarded ASSYST a contract to build an advanced analytics data solution. This platform will provide advanced analytics capabilities for data scientists, researchers, statisticians, economists and end users. The data lake will be provisioned to support large volume data sets including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. Users will be able to perform deeper analytical operations and interact with the data in various categories. ASSYST is also building a real time interactive chat interface which will allow users to chat with the bot and get answers to queries in real time.

The components of this data platform include Azure Databricks, Spark, Python, R, Jupytr Notebooks, Scala, MS Luis, Microsoft Power BI Interactive Data, Azure Chat Bot service framework, and cloud architecture. 

ASSYST’s Big Data Analytics practice has been helping Federal, state and local government as well as international development agencies adopt data-driven approaches in their business operations. Our portfolio of solutions include Data Warehouse, Data Lakes, Business Intelligence, Open Data, Self-Service Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Performance Reporting, and Data Visualization. ASSYST’s solutions help to bridge the gap between big data and data science and enable customers to embed information-driven intelligence into their operations, resulting in competitive advantages and better business outcomes.