Government agencies must do more with less – provide higher levels of citizen services and improve security while reducing costs. One way to achieve this goal is to transform brick-and-mortar services to e-government, providing self-service applications to constituents, partners, vendors, and other agencies over the Internet.

It's a transformation that requires a reliable, scalable IT infrastructure – one that can integrate existing databases and applications, often across agency boundaries. The fast, reliable, streamlined, scalable and Internet-ready characteristics of Linux make it particularly well suited to host these e-government applications.

Oklahoma's Department of Human Services has used Linux on the mainframe to create a revolutionary child welfare reporting system that meets government regulations and improves reporting to constituents, while also reducing cost and increasing efficiency. After analyzing all factors – hardware, software, support, personnel, facilities, downtime, storage, network, and services – the department found it was able to reduce TCO by about $989,000 over five years, which represents a 39% reduction in overall cost.

Hear Oklahoma's remarkable story in full and learn about an Information Builders/IBM solution that offers the highest Linux-mainframe efficiency for business intelligence.