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Moving to a new Administration: Collaboration and Shared Services

Technology

Service Oriented Architecture Conference

John W. Cox, CFOU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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AGENDA

• E-Government role today– External Applications– On the Horizon--FMLoB– Internal Applications

• Future – What’s next?

• Q&A

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External E-Gov Initiatives

Enterprise Income Verification (EIV): Allows PHAs to verify wage income, social security and supplemental social security income, new hire data, and unemployment information.

• Pay.Gov • Grants.Gov • HIHRTS

• e-Performance

Implementation results: Need for Better Integration

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External E-Gov Initiatives(Continued)

• WebTA: • FedTraveler: • Smartpay:

Implementation results: Need for Better Integration

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Internal (HUD) E-Gov Initiatives

• HITS– Firm Fixed Price: Good News/Bad News

– Incentives in Contracts (Carrot and Stick)

– Need for Flexibility in Contracts

• Financial Data Mart – better, more timely information for decision making

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Internal (HUD) E-Gov Initiatives(Continued)

• Hyperion Financial Management – moving from client server to web-based application

• HIFMIP– FMLoB

– Common Business Practices; Better Funds Control

• Appraiser and Lender Watch

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HUD SYSTEM ARCHITECTUREFY 2009

• Replace or retire 10 systems by 2009, 14 by 2013• Build on the successful PeopleSoft COTS roll-outs at FHA and Ginnie Mae• Goal is a single, integrated general ledger

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HUD SHIFTS ITS EMPHASIS

Beyond number crunching to data and risk analysis and improved performance.

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Key System Modernization Goals“HUD Integrated Financial Management Improvement Project” (HIFMIP)

• Assure funds control at all levels and employ clear relationship to budget formulation.

• Consolidate financial systems department-wide on the PeopleSoft COTS package, leveraging a common solution.– Mitigates risk– Cost avoidance– Business requirements fit

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Key System Modernization Goals“HUD Integrated Financial Management Improvement Project” (HIFMIP)

(Continued)

• Create user-friendly system interfaces• Pay careful attention to data quality issues.• Enable direct access to standardized, accurate timely

information which will improve productivity and focus on providing better analytical information.

• Lower transaction processing costs.• Link agency performance to costs; increase capability

to accurately measure and report activity-level program costs; and maximize ROI.

• Provide efficient reporting and fiscal year end closings.

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• OMB’s financial management line of business (FMLOB) initiative is an important component of the PMA for improving overall government performance management, focusing on business-driven, common solutions to help address financial management system weaknesses and implementation failures.

On the Horizon:Financial Management Line of Business

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FMLoB Vision/Framework

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FMLoB Benefits

Increased ability to focus on analytics and management instead of transactional system coordination

Reduced licensing and integration costs

Reduced operations and maintenance costs through combined services

Sharing of hardware, software and infrastructure

Broader agency choices for obtaining services

More standardized operations across bureaus and agencies

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• Limited resources available• Competing government-wide initiatives• Varying levels of commitment among some federal

officials to address long-standing financial management issues

• Complexity of compliance requirements, danger exists that accounting compliance requirements have become so prescriptive that they may begin to drive business processes rather than business processes driving accounting processes.

FMLoB Challenges

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Future Outlook: What’s next?

• Future of E-Gov: Will this remain a priority for the next Administration?

• E-Gov funding outlook

• Number of New Systems Planned (HUD and Government-wide)

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This Won’t Get the Job Done

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Future of E-Gov

• E-Gov improves the speed and quality with which Government provides information and services to citizens, employees, and other constituent groups

• Challenge for Agencies is to develop user-centric E-Government applications and make their use intuitive.

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• Adapt to best business processes• Designs that optimize results and minimize rework• Simplify and consolidate data and environment• Minimize customizations • Strong Senior Management Support with a focus on

project management• Financial Managers must continue to strive to

provide value-added service to our core mission functions.

SUMMARY

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Q & A