GC Enterprise Architecture/Enterprise Solutions

GC Enterprise Architecture	GC Enterprise Architecture Review Board, GC EARB
GC Service & Digital Target Enterprise Architecture	When to come
Enterprise Architecture Framework	Forward Agenda
Business Capability Model (BCM)	Past Sessions
Exemplar and Reference Architectures	10 Things You Need to Know
Enterprise Solutions	Governance for Digital Solutions
Working Groups	EA and GC EARB Overview – Presentation
Other References

Enterprise Solutions definition

Enterprise solutions are a whole-of-government architectural, governance, vendor management and procurement approach where IT is aligned to business services and solutions are based on re-usable components across Government of Canada departments.

Benefits of Enterprise Solutions

• Horizontally enable external and internal business services and provide cohesive experience to users and other stakeholders.

• Reduces the total cost of ownership, that includes procurement, development, operation maintenance and decommission for services by streamlining the number of GC digital solutions.

• Enhances integration and collaboration, creates transferable skill sets, and leverage innovative work across the GC and the private sector.

• Maximize enterprise investment by consolidating solutions into Enterprise Solutions, based on Business Capability Model (BCM)

Service & Digital Target Enterprise Architecture

The Service & Digital Target Enterprise Architecture and Whitepaper were presented at GC EARB on July 16, 2020 for pre-endorsement.

The Service & Digital Target Enterprise Architecture defines a model for the digital enablement of Government of Canada services that addresses many of the key challenges with the current GC enterprise ecosystem.

• It seeks to reduce the silos within the current GC ecosystem by having departments adopt a user and service

delivery centric perspective when considering new IT solutions or modernizing older solutions.

• It advocates a whole-of-government approach where IT is aligned to business services and solutions are based

on re-useable components implementing business capabilities optimized to reduce unnecessary redundancy.

• This re-use is enabled through the use of published APIs shared across government. This approach allows GC

to focus on improving its service delivery to Canadians while addressing the challenges with legacy systems.

Decision Making Framework for Enterprise Solutions

Presented at GC EARB on June 4th, 2020

Under the Policy on Service and Digital, departmental CIO’s are responsible for “submitting to GC EARB, proposals concerned with the design, development, installation and implementation of digital initiatives”. They are also responsible for “adopting, as applicable, enterprise solutions within their respective department.”

Increasingly, a number of departmental digital initiatives propose solutions that address matters with common business capabilities, resulting in a diverse range of applications in operations across the GC IT landscape. TBS has recognized a need to provide assistance to departmental CIO’s to inform decision-making with respect to the adoption of enterprise solutions.

The following presentation is the first iteration of a working draft of a decision making framework that will be used as a guide for the adoption of enterprise solutions. The framework will be added to the revised GC EARB presenter template. Please send us your feedback on the decision making framework for enterprise solutions to the TBS Enterprise Architecture team

Enterprise Solutions and the EA Framework

The Business Architecture layer of the the EA Framework has the following assessment criteria for GC EARB reviews:

Promote Horizontal Enablement of the Enterprise

-Identify opportunities to enable business services horizontally across the GC enterprise and to provide cohesive experience to users and other stakeholders

-Reuse common business capabilities, processes and enterprise solutions from across government and private sector

-Publish in the open all reusable common business capabilities, processes and enterprise solutions for others to develop and leverage cohesive horizontal enterprise services.