The Enterprise Chief Technology Office manages the Enterprise Architecture program.  Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the technical infrastructure and processes that align computer service with business needs.  The EA staff work closely with program leadership, business analysts, and technical professionals to ensure good decision making around technology selection, standardization, economy of scale, and to establish and implement governance structures to guide this collaborative work.   We work and consult with all Agencies to ensure legacy system upgrades are leveraged with common solutions where possible and are managed in accordance with industry standards and best practices. Working hand in hand with the CIO, Enterprise Project Management Office, Agency IT managers and business owners, we support the alignment of current and future IT projects, expenditures and technologies to reduce redundancy and gain efficiencies.

As the “Center of Excellence” for “Private Cloud” infrastructure, we are responsible for all aspects of technical alignment, acquisition, and management of infrastructure within state of Vermont data centers.  This includes all physical and virtual capacity (storage, processing, life cycle, performance and configuration management).  Our current focus is to consolidate enterprise applications, reduce the number of physical servers and consolidate these environments into fewer data centers.  By doing this, we are establishing an agile Private Cloud while continuing to position the state to effectively take advantage of Public Cloud infrastructure services.   Our primary goal is to design, implement, and manage the State technical Infrastructure to best support the business of State government.

Enterprise Architecture 

 
Bridging Business and Technology
 
In today’s world, information technology is a critical enabling factor that drives industry, commerce, education, and government. Advances in technology during the past few decades have dramatically changed the way individuals, businesses, and government organizations process, store, and transmit information. The development and use of the Internet, common and open standards, and other intelligence-oriented technologies are providing for simpler integration of systems, information and as a result, business processes. Thanks to these new technologies and the ease of integration they provide, we can buy New England Patriots football tickets, check the weather in Burlington, and make several stock market transactions in a few minutes at home before breakfast. Because the world of commerce offers such convenience and responsiveness, the public will come to expect these same services from government.
 
State government business processes should be agile enough to adapt to these major changes in technology, especially when it can dramatically improve government's service potential while providing an overall cost savings. The unfortunate reality is that complexities always accompany the introduction, coordination, and management of technology. This is especially true in large organizations, such as state governments, that are struggling just to meet the needs of their interrelated entities much less provide consumers with improvements in service.

As we work together across the State of Vermont we will continue to drive transparency and efficiency for business and information technology through an Adaptive Enterprise Architecture.