Centralized Software-As-A Service

For Omani Government Organizations

Abdullah Al Barwani

Background and Purpose

Current Status and Issues

Improvement Strategy

Specific Action Plan

Expected Results

Contents

Background and Purpose

※ Describe why you have chosen this topic:

※ Describe the topic’s significance and purpose:

• Background

• Purpose

resolves existing overlap and duplications of efforts high impact results align with overall strategy and initiatives

National Level Impact if implemented, will result in big savings for the government if implemented, will expedite eGovernment implementation

Current Status and Issues

Currently ALL government organizations procure and implement their own software and applications despite the fact that some of these applications could be centralized Also, some organizations are more mature than others which pose a challenge for a whole of government eGovernment implementation because of integration and data availability issues.

Project SWOT Analysis

S W

O T

Strength

Opportunity Threat

Weakness

Ministerial Cabinet mandate and direction

available budget

organizational Authority

Number of Available resources

Available skills

Capitalize on Government Cloud project

Time Frame

Open Source Initiatives

Policy Enforcement

Current Status and Issues – Gap Analysis

Proposed Overall Goals (Objectives)

Proposed Purpose

Better Integration

Minimize Cost

Better data sharing

To Be

As Is

Unified Technical Architecture

Centralized Back Office applications deployment

Centralized Budgetary/Licences

Integrate for data sharing/ workflows

Separate deployment for each org.

Distributed budgetary planning

Non-integrated approach

Different technical Architecture

-Develop a plan to centralize Back office applications and software for all government

organizations with central budget and licenses requirement

-Capitalize of the current government cloud implementation to provide the project as p

art of the software-as-a service initiative

• Improvement Strategy

Improvement Strategy

Conduct a market research for the requirement for all government organizations

Develop a priority list of required software and applications

Develop the business requirement based on the number of licenses required and ex

pected growth

Phase out the implementation based on the priority list

Include the project in the annual business plan starting 2015

• Specific Action Plan

Specific Action Plan

Specific Action Plan

• The steps to achieve your goals

STEP 1

• Market Research

STEP 2 • Business requirement Document

STEP 3 • Create a plan for deployment in phases

• Implementing Organization - Name of the organization: ___Information Technology Authority(ITA)

- Nature or type of the organization: Government

- Major functions of the organization: • Society and human capital development

• Enhance e-Government & e-Services

• Enable ICT Industry Development • Governance, Standards & Regulation

• National Infrastructure Development

• Promotion & Awareness

• Duration of the Project : (5) Year(s) - Date of commencement: Jan 2015

- Date of completion: Dec 2020

Outline of the Action Plan

• Duration : (5) Year(s), First Year Work Plan: 2014

No Item Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Fund US$

1 Prepare survey Materials

2 Allocate the team

3 Conduct the survey

4 Finalize requirement and report

5 Obtain approvals

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Action Plan – Duration (Example)

this information will only be available after the market study and

business requirement gathering

Outline of the Action Plan–Budget (if needed)

Expected Results – Outputs/Outcomes

• Economic Effects

Big saving for the government from licenses expedited eGovernment implementation

• Technical Effects

Unified Architecture more integrated solution Better data security

• Social and Environmental Effects

Enhanced Data Sharing

(Challenges and Solutions)

• Challenges and Risks

available number of resources and skills required high expectation from senior management on completion date

• Solutions

Outsource certain tasks with in-house supervision Recruit required resource Develop the required skills Manage the project in Phases Early communication to senior management about phases and plans