Business Chief USA October 2019

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and functionality perspective, then
that’s likely our first choice. We went
to a cloud-based solution for sales tax
management in the past year or two,
and that’s been very successful.”
Throughout this systems change,
Jeffress has maintained a focus on
security for the data contained within.
“We’ve built a lot more rigor into the
security side as well as more knowledge,
both with staff very specific to
security, as well as education across
the organization. Looking at it from
a data perspective, it’s a question of
understanding the data classifications
that we have, the data sources, who
has access to what, and putting all
of that together so that we can more
efficiently manage what we have.”
This focus on data will serve the city
well as it embarks on a new smart city
initiative, bringing a new influx of data.
“Aurora was one of the founding cities
of the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance,”
says Jeffress. “We had done a few
independent smart city projects and
then realized that we needed to have a
bigger strategy. We made a request for
proposal earlier this year and engaged
with a firm who are putting together
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