The city controller said a new data portal containing a comprehensive picture of the city's financial health fills a common request from constituents.

Kevin Gilbertson, a former executive at a regional cloud services firm, will be the state's new IT chief, succeeding Tim Bottenfield, who retired last year.

The deal is by far the biggest in Tyler's corporate history, and gives the civic tech vendor a doorway into statewide contracting.

The company is telling its local-government customers to revoke credentials used by its technicians for remote access.

The company, one of the largest vendors of IT services to local governments, reported a security incident involving unauthorized access by an "unknown third party."

State Controller Brandon Woolf says he has plans to encourage data reporting across the state and regain trust from a disillusioned public.

State technology secretary Michael Leahy says the upgrade gives the state "one source of truth."

New legislation would give data-oriented work a more solid footing within state government.

Commentary: Socrata Data Academy Director Oliver Wise says improved decision-making is valuable, but not the full proposition data makes to government.

Engineers from government software firm Tyler Technologies first developed the map for relief workers after Hurricane Harvey in 2017.