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Quality by Design:
Using Metadata Registries to Manage Information Quality
by Beverly Hacker, Principal Enterprise Architect
Sept. 2008

Quality by design is a fundamental principle of quality management and is by no means confined to information quality. All other things being equal, building quality management into processes so that products will fulfill pre-defined quality specifications has proven to be more cost effective than bolting on quality correction processes after data has turned out to be too defective to be used to support downstream processes.

Formula for SOA Success:
Building Blocks for a Data-Centric SOA Transition
by Adel Harris and Ramesh Ramakrishan
Aug. 2008

Delivering on the promise of true enterprise-wide SOA – an environment in which discoverable, accessible, interopera-ble, and trusted services are business appli-cations that are aligned with business goals – is a huge undertaking that takes years. But with a proven, evolutionary SOA tran-sition plan that focuses first on data, organizations can achieve sustainable results with “quick wins,” while proceeding down the path of an architected approach that will deliver fully on SOA’s promise.

Federal EA Leaders Discuss EA Roadblocks and Successes
Aug. 2008

The ultimate destination of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the successful use of EA principles to deliver results that align business and IT functions, eliminate duplication, leverage IT investments, accelerate delivery of electronic government, and support information sharing.  To arrive at this destination, business and IT executives throughout the federal government are seeking best practices for establishing an EA framework that delivers results. To identify successes and roadblocks and gather intelligence on key issues impacting agency EA programs, Citizant conducted a series of focus groups – Government-Industry Partnerships for EA Excellence – to delve into these issues at the GTRA ArchitectureGOV Symposium.

Getting Value out of Enterprise Architecture:
Bridging the Gap between Business Mission and IT Solutions
July 2008

To arrive at this destination, business and IT executives throughout the federal government are seeking best practices for establishing an EA framework that delivers results. To identify successes and roadblocks and gather intelligence on key issues impacting agency EA programs, Citizant conducted a series of focus groups – Government-Industry Partnerships for EA Excellence – to delve into these issues at the GTRA ArchitectureGOV Symposium.

Enterprise Data Management at the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Feb. 2005

Since assuming responsibility for data quality improvement at HUD, the OCIO has been successfully applying a systematic program of data quality assessment, process improvement, data correction and certification for mission-critical data in HUD’s major information systems.