With IT modernization slated to be an ongoing priority in the federal sector, Oracle’s Cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) portfolio, which provides a complete development and deployment environment on top of cloud infrastructure, will increasingly serve as a mission-enabling solution. PaaS paves way for federal IT modernization. This was the key theme of a recent Government Technology Insider podcast interview with Dave Pipes, Senior Solutions Architect at Affigent, where he also highlighted the true benefits of PaaS, as well as how it can leverage innovations such as AI.