BUSINESS REFERENCE MODEL (BRM) VERSION 2.0
Benefits of the BRM
For The Citizen:
The true driver behind the FEA effort is the need to improve the government's
delivery of services to the public. The stovepiped, agency-centric processes
that have previously characterized government must be replaced with
citizen-centric processes. The FEA, through its support of the 24 Presidential
Priority e-Gov Initiatives and other cross-agency, citizen-focused e-Gov
efforts, is a key component of the citizen-focused transformation in government.
For The Office Of Management and Budget (OMB) With the FEA, OMB is provided with a greatly enhanced cross-agency analytical
capability. OMB is no longer solely dependent on the agency-by-agency analyses
that have characterized the budget allocation process in the past. Through the
line-of-business perspective the FEA provides, OMB will be able to see
redundancies, gaps, and opportunities for collaboration across the federal
agencies. Examples of benefits to OMB include:
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Elimination of investments in redundant IT capabilities,
business processes, or other capital assets |
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Identification of common business functions across agencies
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Integration of performance measurement with the budget
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For Federal Agencies
The FEA is not just for OMB, nor is it for any single federal agency. The FEA
is exactly what it's name suggests - an architecture for the Federal government
as whole. As such, agencies have played and will continue to play a key role in
the definition of the architecture. Federal architecture information is
available on-line for agencies to explore, analyze, and modify. This "vision"
into the federal architecture gives each agency a collection of new capabilities
for defining and implementing their own target environments. Agencies will now
be able to:
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Save time and money by leveraging reusable business
processes, data, and IT-components in other agencies |
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Leverage FEA work products as a catalyst for agency-specific
EA efforts |
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Ensure proposed investments are not duplicative with other
agencies' prior to developing business cases and submitting them to OMB
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Suggest modifications to the Business Reference Model to
ensure future versions accurately portray the business of the US government,
including the role specific agencies play |
For Congress
Application of the Federal Enterprise Architecture will yield a wealth of
information on Federal business lines, programs and capital investments; and the
performance of those business lines, programs and capital investments. This
information will be made available to Congress as it considers the authorization
of and appropriation of funding for Federal programs, and as it fulfills its
oversight responsibilities to ensure that Federal funds are appropriately spent.
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