GCE_Implementing Federal Enterprise Solution in Cloud

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Beyond the Hype: Using Clouds toModernize the Federal Enterprise

David Lucas

Chief Strategy Officer



Last June, the Office of Managementand Budget halted large federal ITprojects worth $30 billion pendingreview

The End of Too Big To Fail in

the Federal Government



The Current State of Financial

Modernizations

$6.9 billion and 6 years over budget .

$340 million spent before the projectwas cancelled. $52 million spent beforethe project cancelled. $30 million andone year over budget project cancelled.



Some modernizations have been given

the green light - others have beenslowed, segmented into smaller pieces,or cancelled altogether

The Spotlight is on Financial

Management Projects



The cloud addresses many of the majorconcerns that arise in the traditionalbusiness model, eliminating longimplementation times, using proven

systems, and providing scalability

A New Paradigm



Federal Government Cloud

Initiatives

The Federal Government is now aproponent of cloud-based

solutions -- establishingstandards and offering a range oftools and resources to federal

agencies



The Software as a Service (SaaS) model

delivers a financial solution that is “pre-configured” to meet federal businessprocesses with the result of simplifying andstreamlining daily tasks

SaaS Model for Financial

Management



We don’t start with a blank sheet ofpaper - our cloud-based modeleliminates much of the risk of thetraditional system implementationapproach

Innovative Model



Cloud-based SaaS solutions offerimmediate benefits by eliminatinghardware and software investmentsand providing a predictable cost model

Low Cost to Join the Cloud



Services are delivered via fixed-price

contracts and managed by Service LevelAgreements (SLAs) which customers canclosely monitor and choose to expand orterminate at any point

Pay As You Go, Pay As You

Grow



Security is hardened for multi-tenancy within the public cloudwhich enables inter-organizationalsecurity and meets federal security

standards

Security



Accelerating the time to

deployment is the key benefit ofthis model - customers can be upand running in months rather thanyears

Faster Time to Operational

Capability



The SaaS model allows you to beginconcentrating on the most challengingareas - change management, legacysystem integration and data migration

Attack Your Most Difficult

Problems on Day One



The roll out of a new service to theuser community requires asignificant effort -- support from the

senior federal leadership is critical

Change Management is the

Critical Activity



Manage the Ripple Effect

Many times the reach of the change

extends far beyond the doors of the

financial community. Recognize that a

change, even small, becomes significantwhen thousands of users are affected.

Change will often extend far beyondthe doors of the financialcommunity - a change, even small,becomes significant whenthousands of users are affected



Plan for Legacy Data Issues

Difficulties dealing with legacy data

integrity in the migration processare often symptomatic of theinefficiencies of the legacy system.

Plan to deal with it before, duringand after implementation.



Test Drive the Data

Giving new users the opportunity totest drive the system with real datais an effective way to help a new

user community identify with andadopt a new system



Government Needs to Look to

Industry

The role of government is topromote innovation by askingindustry to bid solutions in the form

of a service



Industry Opportunity for

Growth

The search is on for standardizedand regulated transactionprocesses that industry can invest

in to create services



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