A core challenge for federal government organizations is how to provide reliable services, typically in the face of tight budget constraints, to a population dispersed over great distances. Many areas of Canada’s public service strive to deliver enhanced programs while contending with aging and often disparate technology platforms. At the same time, federal departments and agencies are acutely aware of the need for transparency, accountability and information privacy.

Allstream helps government organizations leverage the latest communications technologies to improve efficiency and help people collaborate more effectively on key projects – from desk to desk and between geographically remote offices. We offer industry-leading IP connectivity solutions that converge your voice, data and multimedia applications onto a secure, scalable network.

By getting your staff and offices better connected, we help you extend and improve service accessibility in major centres and rural communities without diminishing program quality. And we enable you to achieve all of this while realizing significant savings on your IT budget and maximizing the value of your existing technology investments.

Work more efficiently:
With our communications expertise, connectivity solutions and coast-to-coast 30,000 km fibre-optic network, Allstream helps your organization improve efficiency across the board.

• Ensure better information flow and optimum client support, with reduced risk of network downtime.
• Streamline and extend service delivery through multiple-channel access points and online information gathering.
• Boost productivity with instant virtual meetings enabling geographically dispersed staff to share files and collaborate on applications in real time.
• Keep team members better connected by enabling them to instantly locate and check the current status of colleagues across the network.
• Use digital technologies and audio, web and video conferencing to expand professional development and training opportunities, as well as foster improved regional, agency and departmental relationships.
• Ensure regulatory compliance by updating online forms and applications at the point of data delivery.
• Promote improved work-life balance – increasingly important for both attracting and retaining talent – with teleworking and mobility applications that let people work from home and on the road.
• Stay up to date with the latest business applications, ensuring your network is ready for seamless upgrades.

Save money:
By converging your networks, applications and worksites onto a scalable, end-to-end infrastructure, you maximize the value of everyone’s time by helping them be more productive. Moreover, you can potentially reduce IT staffing costs while realizing a higher overall return on your infrastructure investment.

• Save money and IT resources by eliminating the hardware and software required to maintain multiple technology interfaces.
• Cut travel expenses with real-time audio, web and videoconferencing.
• Reduce real estate costs by minimizing the size and number of dedicated meeting areas across your organization.
• Cut down on office space and equipment by enabling remote workers to share desks and computers.

Reduce your footprint
Allstream helps your organization meet the growing demand for greener delivery of public services. With our suite of collaboration, mobility and teleworking tools, you can reduce your organizational carbon footprint by:

• replacing work-related travel with videoconferencing
• cutting down on commute times and reducing office space by taking advantage of teleworking capabilities
• realizing enhanced energy efficiencies with superior technologies
• reducing office space and saving energy by relocating servers to an Allstream data centre.

Stay secure:
We help protect your confidential data with the innovative security solutions built into every connection point of our national network. With Allstream’s experts working alongside your own IT people, you can transfer and store data efficiently, knowing that your organization is well protected against cyber threats, spam and malware.

You can also transfer your server and data storage needs to one of Allstream’s comprehensive data centres, which provide round-the-clock security and monitoring, climate controls and alternative power sources for immediate, guaranteed backup in the event of a crisis. (Please note that all Managed Hosting services provided by Allstream ensure that data remains in Canada, protected by PIPEDA – Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.)

We understand your goals:
Citizen-centred service delivery is job one for every department and agency of the federal government. Let Allstream help you keep that goal top of mind in all of your IT planning and implementation ­– as you deliver optimum value to Canadian taxpayers.