State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

Tech upgrades could save Chicago millions, a working group found

StateScoop: As it faces a budget shortfall of more than $700 million, Chicago could recoup much of that gap by making upgrades to its enterprise technology, according to Gilbert Villegas, a city alderman who chairs a public-private technology working group formed last year with big tech firms like Google, Microsoft, AT&T and Cisco.

Villegas, who leads the Innovation and Capital Transformation Working Group that began meeting last August, told StateScoop on Friday that a “snapshot” analysis done by Google representatives on the committee showed potential savings of more than $225 million across different city agencies just by transitioning legacy IT systems to cloud-based storage and management systems.

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