Engineer a Blueprint of the Federal Government
Within the Executive Branch of the US Government, the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has established the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Program, whose overarching goal is to engineer "a comprehensive business-driven blueprint of the entire Federal Government."
At the heart of the FEA program is a Business Reference Model, which provides a framework that facilitates a functional view of the federal government's Lines of Business (LoBs). In support of the Business Reference Model, the FEA has established four additional models:
- Data Reference Model
- Performance Reference Model
- Service Component Reference Model
- Technical Reference Model
The FEA Data Reference Model promotes common identification, use and appropriate sharing of data/information across various LoBs and agencies. This common data model, which calls on XML (extensible mark-up language), will streamline information exchange processes within the Federal government and between external stakeholders.
Structured content - using established XML taxonomies - opens the door to PTC's Dynamic Publishing System and a host of enterprise-wide efficiencies. The Dynamic Publishing System makes real the promise of interoperability across LoBs and agencies. Common content - serving one LoB - can be automatically reformatted to serve the needs of another. With the establishment of a common Arbortext Content Management System from PTC comes the inherent advantage of single-source publishing - consistent messaging, content reuse and multiple channel delivery. Now, with a single instance of change management, updates can be affected across a multitude of documents.
