An initiative seeking to develop business-driven,
common solutions to lines of business that span across
the government will be in progress through the summer,
with a goal of having the five task forces at work
identify common solutions and develop target
architectures and joint business cases in their areas
by September.
The line of business initiative is designed to build
on the efforts of the Federal Enterprise Architecture
Program to support the President’s Management Agenda
for e-government. Overseen by the Office of Management
and Budget, the task forces and their lead agencies
are financial management (Energy and Labor), human
resources management (Office of Personnel Management),
grants management (Education and National Science
Foundation), federal health architecture (Health and
Human Services) and case management (Justice). For
example, in the area of human resources management the
goal is to produce a “modern, cost effective,
standardized, and integrated human resources information
system(s) to support the strategic management of
human capital.”
According to an information paper prepared by the Chief
Information Officers Council, each of the lines of
business share core business requirements that are the
same, and similar business processes. “This redundancy
cannot continue in a period of fiscal urgency driven
by the war on terrorism, and in an era of unprecedented
opportunities through the advancement of technology,”
the paper says.
OMB and the task forces will use enterprise
architecture-based principles and best practices to
identify common solutions for business processes and/or
technology-based shared services to be made available
to agencies. “Driven from a business perspective
rather than a technology focus, the solutions will
address distinct business improvements to enhance
government’s performance and services for citizens,”
the paper says.
The implementation of common solutions and the changes
required of the IT architecture will focus on priorities
to begin to realize cost savings in fiscal 2005,
significantly increasing in fiscal 2006 as agencies
migrate to the common solutions, with major goals
accomplished in fiscal 2007, the paper says.
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