Government Application Rationalization Playbook implemented in Alfabet

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced its new data strategy in October 2020. In it, the DoD shared its plan to transform into a data-centric organization by using data to help the department fulfill a number of missions. With a focus on API-led hybrid integration, we will address some of the challenges facing the DoD data strategy – accessibility, discoverability, security, and scalability – and discuss the capabilities required for a successful implementation of the DoD Data Strategy.

Join us to learn how to:
• Unlock data from any data source
• Rapidly expose data and services with APIs
• Support a collaborative API lifecycle
• Secure your APIs and implement zero-trust architectures
• Share up-to-date information quickly and reliably with APIs

APIs are a key enabler for modern software companies like Amazon and Netflix. But government agencies are often saddled with legacy systems built without APIs. Some agencies have been able to overcome these limitations to begin to operate with the same speed and agility that modern software companies do. Learn how any agency can create new APIs to gain the flexibility to not only evolve their IT ecosystems, but also to avoid costs.

The US Federal Government published an Application Rationalization Playbook to assist agencies on maximizing their IT investments. The playbook was developed by the Cloud and Infrastructure Community of Practice (C&I CoP) as a practical approach for agencies to get started on their application rationalization journey. The playbook is based on industry best practices and adaptable for ready implementation within COTS Enterprise Architecture tools and IT Portfolio Management solutions.

Software AG Government Solutions uses its Alfabet EA/ITPM solution to organize and rationalize large application portfolios across the US Government and comes configured to support Application Rationalization and Consolidation. Alfabet is easily adjustable via configuration to be tailored to not just the CoP playbook but also further to agency specific assessment and scoring mechanisms.

In this webinar, we will examine the six phases in the playbook and demonstrate how Alfabet supports each phase. As a workflow-enabled, fully integrated repository, Alfabet can incorporate metrics and measures from other systems to provide many perspectives that lead to rationalization activities or projects.

If you are an Application Portfolio Manager or an Enterprise Architect responsible for assessment and scoring for applications, you should plan on attending this webinar.

Government systems are in a constant state of change. From new regulations, new ways of interacting, changing employee and constituent expectations, evolving security threats, and for a host of other reasons requires us to change and modernize our technology. Many organizations are starting to embrace the use of APIs and microservices. But only 13% of companies using microservices say their architecture is production-proven for a high quality of service. What’s more, agencies have invested billions of dollars over the last decade creating their existing capabilities. How can an organization leverage their existing investments while delivering the change that is needed, at a faster pace, lower cost, and built-in flexibility? Come hear our guest speaker, Forrester vice president and principal analyst Randy Heffner, along with Chris Borneman, Software AG Government Solutions CTO, as they discuss:
•Why APIs and microservices matter for government
•How the demands of business innovation should guide your API and microservices approach
•The role of product teams and business domains in unified API/microservice design
•What are some of the key elements of an API and microservice platform
•How an API platform can speed your time to value

Governments are increasingly adopting a more comprehensive enterprise architecture approach for managing their technology assets. Some organizations are pushing further, implementing a "technology business management" platform that brings together every aspect of IT within a unified framework.

Government Technology spoke to Jeff Chancellor, principal systems engineer for Software AG Government Solutions, and David Taylor, vice president of state, local and provincial government solutions for Software AG Government Solutions, and a former agency CIO and state CIO of Florida, about how TBM can make governments more efficient and more effective.

To this day, government and higher education institutions leverage extremely stable mainframe applications in their day-to-day business. The problem with these applications is the poor user experience and the ability to scale as demand warrants, but, on the other hand, rewriting these applications can be costly and risky. With that being said, one of the noticeable outcomes of the COVID-19 response is the accentuated need for Legacy Application Modernization.

During this webinar, we will learn how to:
• Upgrade the User Experience and migrate functions of the legacy applications as needed in a low-risk fashion
• Integrate the Legacy Systems with Low Code Cloud-based Applications (LCAP)
• Opening up legacy applications to improve the User Experience does not mean having to completely re-write applications
• An overview and demo of the process of integrating legacy systems applications to Low Code Applications, as they have been successfully performed at several State of Texas agencies in the last three months

Our supply chains are under tremendous pressure to adapt and change to meet the demands of flexibility, increased visibility, and introduce new capabilities. However, the way we connect our supply chain systems together, within the enterprise and across the supply chain, still primarily remains unchanged. Take a look at this video to see how to get there, what might be holding you back, and what are some key enablers to address this quickly and efficiently by leveraging your existing systems.

In Integrating for an Evolving Supply Chain, you will hear government success stories, including the US Navy, while the below key points are discussed. How to:
- Extend existing investments while reducing operational costs
- Eliminate friction to creating secure internal and external connections
- Embrace API-led integration approaches and services in a vendor-neutral way
- Produce auditable transactions and financial statements

Hear from Senior Director at Software AG Government Solutions, Jeff Estes, discuss modern integration - APIs, IoT, and much more:

-Where’s my data?
-Preparing for the digital future
-Hook me up! IoT fits in more than we think
-Exploiting it ALL! And how we get there

This was presented at DSI's 18th Annual DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit in June of 2020.

When a citizen needs information about their court case schedule and monies owed for court fees, this information is stored on the mainframe in multiple legacy systems. The courts would have to access several systems to generate reports to send via mail or email to the citizen. Then the citizen would have to arrive at the courts early to pay their fees ask a clerk for their scheduled court room. Citizens can now call in on an IVR system connected to the mainframe to receive accurate real-time information. Judges and attorneys also benefit from the modernized mainframe integration to retrieve and update court case data. The mainframe is home to critical data for Delaware state courts and an API-lead integration approach to modernization was the most efficient way to unlocking the possibilities.

Part 3 of the Digital Thread series.

Part 2 of the Digital Thread Series

Part 1 of the Digital Thread Series

National emergencies have shown all of us the need to be able to share up-to-date information quickly and reliably. In the digital world, APIs are the key to real-time information sharing. Having a robust API solution is no longer a nice-to-have, it is a must-have. Sharing your data and services in a reliable and secure manner is easier than you think with an API Management solution.

Join us to learn how to:
•Support a collaborative API lifecycle
•Rapidly expose data and services with APIs
•Secure your APIs
•Share up-to-date information quickly and reliably with APIs

Hosted by Digital Government Institute (DGI), you will hear from former CIO/CTO of the IRS, Terry Miholland, and Software AG Government Solutions' Darryn Graham in this on-demand webinar. The ongoing pandemic has highlighted the criticality of many Federal and State agencies' ability to quickly and accurately share data outside of their organization. However, many agencies struggle to even share their data amongst the applications within their own portfolio. In this webinar, we will explore how the IRS was able to liberate vast amounts of data "locked up" in legacy applications - freeing it for use all across the agency and beyond.

In this demonstration, we are going to take a look at an example of integrating an ERP, like SAP, into another enterprise system, like PeopleSoft, using webMethods.

Application Rationalization is a top use case for Federal Enterprise Architecture teams. Successful App Rationalization efforts require a good strategy and the ability to make targeted choices when determining which systems to sunset. In this webinar, we’ll explore how the Alfabet platform supports customers’ efforts in establishing an app rationalization strategy and the tactics in effective delivery.

Enterprise Architecture as a practice is well understood by IT teams due to well-understood categorization models for tracking and managing assets. IT Finance Management was driven by accounting standards that we often poorly aligned to IT assets. Now, TBM is bringing a complete methodology to both Business and IT groups within a single enterprise. Learn how Business groups benefit from the foundations of EA, and how IT groups can better understand and apply financial cost account across all assets.

What viewers will learn by attending this program include:
• How to leverage the TBM Taxonomy to consistently record costs by Cost Pools and IT Towers
• See why CIO’s need this framework to deliver status of IT costs and budgets
• Learn to apply the cost structures to key assets and projects
• Avoid incorrect reporting and improve visualizations by integrating Alfabet with your General Ledger using the TBM methodology

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