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The Department is establishing a DOL-wide Enterprise Architecture (EA).
The EA will serve as an integrated framework for aligning the Department's
business, data, applications and technology with the Department's strategic
plan and mission and information resources management goals.
Some of the benefits achieved in developing the target enterprise
architecture are:
The development of a shared business vision across the Department
The development of a target architecture that has identified
economies of scale for common programmatic processes and systems
Improved ability to leverage IT to support business processes across
DOL
Help in providing architecturally-based rationale/criteria for a
future systems development strategy and effort by:
Describing how a new system can support a given DOL business function
in the context of an EA
Determining additional new capabilities that can be provided by the
target application to address unmet needs in the context of an EA
How We Are Developing an Enterprise Architecture
The Department's Baseline Enterprise Architecture was developed with
significant participation from the Agencies. A key outcome of the baseline was
an agreement to develop a Federated Enterprise Architecture. The Federated
Enterprise Architecture assumes that the Department and its agencies have
Enterprise Architectures that are integrated and function cooperatively. The
result is that business functions have been categorized as Universal, Common,
and Independent. Universal functions occur across most of the Agencies and are
under stewardship of the Department. Common and Independent functions are under
the stewardship of the respective agencies. The Department and the Agencies are
developing a governance process to ensure the Enterprise Architectures are
consistent.
The current phase of the DOL EA, the Target Enterprise
Architecture, is focused on a set of DOL's universal functions. A parallel,
coordinated effort is underway to develop the agencies' enterprise
architectures to cover the functions that are agency-specific. That effort will
be completed by September 2002, after which the results will be integrated with
the EA.
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