Paradigm Systems Development is honored to have had its work be recognized by NASIRE, an association of the Chief Information Officers of each state.

   A program written by Paradigm Systems Development was cited by the state of California as the best administrative application program in the state.  This program was selected to represent California against stiff national competition.  The National Association of State Information Resource Executives (NASIRE) received 50 nominations from 19 states for awards in nine categories.  Paradigm Systems' Risk Assessment Model (RAM), developed with California's Department of Information Technology, won the award for administrative applications.

   The RAM is a software tool that assists state IT project managers and oversight analysts to identify those risk factors that can anticipate project success or failure. Prior to the creation of the RAM, no tool existed in the state to gauge and quantify the risk associated with IT projects. The RAM has enabled California's Department of Information Technology to implement a level of project oversight that is unprecedented in the history of the state's IT investment.