The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented time for our country and there is no playbook for companies and employees. As states started to impose stay-at-home orders, BRMi was embarking on highly anticipated employee integration activities with our newly acquired company, DMS. These in-person events were put on hold and the BRMi leadership team pivoted [...]
BRMi's Ryan Blair (top left) and Michael Chapdelaine (top right) Last month, BRMi employees gathered their older, idle laptops and tablets to donate to school-age children in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area (DMV). Many school districts in the DMV moved to online learning with the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. The educational challenges created [...]
We rely on our IT staff to provide seamless interoperability as we work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Workers across the country are adopting new work patterns using communications tools that may have been previously unfamiliar to them. They expect the tools, networks, and support services to all function in harmony so that they may [...]
Intelligent automation (IA) projects with a limited scope yield results more quickly, mature skills, and reduce both risk and costs. Small incremental changes may be automated faster and are easier to adopt by the workforce and customers. We recommend selecting one or a small number of tasks within a larger process and proceed using an [...]
The importance of our national and global health hasn't been so widely evident as it has during the COVID-19 pandemic. For almost 40 years, BRMi's DMS division has dedicated themselves to supporting the work of biomedical researchers and public health organizations, using our expertise in the information sciences to help reduce the pain and suffering [...]
BRMi’s Trevor Brown and Bryan Graham received the UiPath Advanced Developer Certification this week. This is the last stage in the UiPath RPA Developer Advanced Learning Path. The certification expands the number of BRMi team members available to provide superior RPA development and services to our clients. Congratulations to Trevor and Bryan. Schedule a 30-minute [...]
BRMi mourns the passing of one of its most valued advisors, Dave Chipman. Dave served on BRMi’s board of advisors for over three years, bringing his 35 years of IT consulting experience to us with passion and impact. Dave was directly involved with BRMi’s growth, focusing us on the fundamentals of what makes a healthy [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us all of the importance of having an exceptionally well-thought-out and practiced continuity-of-operations (COOP) plan. Agencies are required to document and thoroughly test their plans. Fortunately, we have not experienced any national, large-scale events in our area over the last decade or more. As a consequence, the focus has shifted away [...]
Fully integrated, continuous integration (CI) platforms are quickly becoming indispensable to establishing effective DevSecOps in software development organizations. These platforms are becoming more integrated day by day to help eliminate the heavy integration work required to build and maintain effective CI pipelines. Additionally, these platforms also offer more comprehensive tools to help improve the quality, [...]
Data is the lifeblood of every organization. Processes move it from point A to point B, blend it with other data, and it ultimately becomes actionable information that leads to a decision. Accurate, authoritative data is critical to making good decisions. Are your processes capturing and storing the right data to support your mission? Most [...]