GC Enterprise Architecture/Enterprise Solutions
Please send us your feedback on the Enterprise Solutions content to the [Enterprise Architecture team]
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. Reusable components can occur across all, several or individual architecture layers of the EA framework, Business, Information, Application, Technology, Security and Privacy, BIATSP.
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.
DRAFT: Patterns and Practices regarding Enterprise Solutions: Spectrum of Options
Enterprise Solutions may be governed using three general models that provide relative advantages in terms of addressing technical debt, minimizing total cost of ownership, maximizing use of talent, maximizing consistency of technology and business processes, and optimizing infrastructure.
- Enterprise Service Provider Model. This model provides all services to the entire Enterprise in a consolidated manner, governed by a centralized authority, and is fully integrated across all instances.
- Product Owner Model. This model uses departmental clusters or business owners to govern distributed instances of enterprise solutions. This model leverages enterprise standards, product owners, departmental clusters, governance and oversight. This model may also leverage distributed technical infrastructure to support solution clusters
- Federated Model. This stand alone, or decentralized model allows departments to implement their own stack components, influenced by standards, using APIs via interoperability standards. Governance manages exemptions from the Standard; however, a decentralized enterprise with multiple service delivery methods and business units may be successful in finding justifications for significant deviations for standards.
The following solutions have been endorsed by GC EARB.
Enterprise Solutions can be identified across all the layers of the EA framework, BIATSP.
Business Architecture
GC BCM v2.0 (GC Business Capability Model)
- GC EARB presentation, 2019-01-19
- BCM 2.0 Definition Document
- Government of Canada Business Capability Model 2.0, 2019-05-02
Investing in Enterprise Capabilities at CBSA, 2020-01-31
Digital Workspace Standards & Profiles. 2019-10-31
Accessible Information and Communication Technology (ICT), 2019-06-19
Information Architecture
A Framework for Government-Wide Data Governance & Stewardship, 2020-03-02
Enterprise Data: Update to the Enterprise Architecture Review Board, 2019-07-04
Data Analytics as a Service, 2019-03-21
Enterprise Data Management and Architecture, 2018-05-31
GCdocs and GCdocs Managed Service, 2018-05-31
Data Sovereignty & Public Cloud, 2018-03-22
CDXP
Application Architecture
Canada School of Public Service – Next Generation Digital Learning Environment, 2020-07-02
Digital Comptrollership Program (formerly Financial Management Transformation)
- FMT Coordinated Model and GC Digital Core, 2020-04-09
- GC Entity License for Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Intelligence Software Solution (EIISS)
- PSPC SAP Moving Forward (to SAP S/4HANA) Project, 2020-04-09
- Financial Management Transformation (Endorsement of SAP software for OCG)
- SAP Hana licenses (initially for AAFC)
- CBSA SAP HANA
- Grants and Contributions, 2017-11-09
NRCan – Canadian Geospatial Platform (Federal Geospatial Platform), 2020-03-26
SSC IT Service Management Tool Project (Service Management Transformation Program), 2020-03-02
Statistics Canada cloud architecture for Drupal, GC reference architecture for the GC, 2020-01-17
NSERC/SSHRC/CIHR – Tri-Agency Grants Management Solution, 2019-11-14
Open Source Standards and Whitepaper, 2019-10-03
GCcase
Canada.ca Search Engine, 2019-06-19
GC Mainframe Strategy, 2019-06-19
eProcurement Solution, 2019-05-02
Gartner Assessment of CRA/CBSA SAP Strategy, 2019-03-21
ATIP Online Request Service (AORS), 2019-02-07
Open First Whitepaper, 2018-09-13
Asset Discovery & Inventory Management. 2019-08-30
Technology Architecture
TBS – Process and status of Split Tunneling requests, 2020-06-18
Digital Communications and Collaboration (DCC): Network and Security Design Principles, 2020-03-26
Cloud eXchange Point (CXP) readiness process, 2020-01-31
GC Cloud Enablement: Cloud Connection Patterns, 2020-12-19
Digital Communications and Collaboration (DCC), 2019-11-14
Enterprise Mobile Device Management, 2019-06-13
Cloud
Security Architecture and Privacy
Digital Credential and Access Management, 2019-09-19
Enabling Secure Access to Protected B Cloud Services, 2019-09-19
Cyber Security Digital Identity Reference Architecture, 2019-07-04
Pan-Canadian Trust Framework, 2019-05-02
Sign IN Canada Way Forward, 2019-05-02
MyAlberta Digital Identity, MADI-2019-05-02
Last update on 2020-08-04
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| 2020-01-17 | 2019-01-10 | 2018-03-08 |
| 2020-01-31 | 2019-01-24 | 2018-03-22 |
| 2020-03-02 | 2019-02-07 | 2018-04-05 |
| 2020-03-26 | 2019-03-07 | 2018-04-26 |
| 2020-04-09 | 2019-03-21 | 2018-05-10 |
| 2020-04-23 | 2019-04-04 | 2018-05-18 |
| 2020-05-07 | 2019-05-02 | 2018-05-31 |
| 2020-06-04 | 2019-06-13 | 2018-06-14 |
| 2020-06-18 | 2019-06-19 | 2018-06-28 |
| 2020-07-02 | 2019-07-04 | 2018-07-12 |
| 2020-07-16 | 2019-07-25 | 2018-08-30 |
| 2020-07-30 | 2019-08-22 | 2018-09-13 |
| 2019-09-19 | 2018-09-27 | |
| 2019-10-03 | 2018-09-27 | |
| 2019-10-31 | 2018-10-19 | |
| 2019-11-14 | 2018-11-01 | |
| 2019-12-05 | 2018-11-15 | |
| 2019-12-19 | 2018-11-29 | |
| 2018-12-13 |
