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Joe PaivaChief Technology Strategist
@joepaiva
June 2014
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Background About VA
• 20+ Million Primary Customers
• Several Lines of Business (Healthcare, Insurance, Death
Services, Homeland Defense, Education, Employment…)
• ~320,000 Employees
• ~$3.4B/Year IT Budget; 400,000+ Users; 5,000+
Applications
• One of the Biggest Open Source Software Shops in World
• One of the Biggest NoSQL Shops in World2
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VA’s “Burning Platform”
• Growing and evolving cyber threats
• Transformation of the healthcare industry
• Increasing pressure on federal budgets
• Greater number of Veterans receiving and using benefits
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IT Vision Overview
• The VA FY 2013-2020 OneVA Enterprise Technology Strategic Plan describes VA’s information technology (IT) vision
• The IT vision diagram, contained in the OneVA Enterprise Technology Strategic Plan, shows how new technologies are leveraged to provide an environment that effectively supports VA’s mission
• The four key aspects of VA’s future state operating environment are:
o Workplace – Device, location, and temporal freedom
o Security – Data security and secure authentication
o Device Independent “Best of Breed” Applications – All data is an enterprise asset
o Infrastructure – Utility computing and on-demand capacity
Figure 1: IT Vision Diagram 4
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Chief Technology Strategist’s (CTS) Key Priorities
• Improve and Evolve Information Security
• Achieve Information Agility
• Reduce Total Lifecycle Cost of IT
High-Level Concept of Enterprise Common Services5
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Enterprise eCRUD Services
User
Clients/End-User Devices
Presentation Layer
Services Layer
Data LayerData Storage
Data Services
Shared Infrastructure Services
Application Specific Services
Application SpecificServices
• Web Server• Authentication (NPE / PE)• App Store
• Device Certification Management• Device OS Handling
• UDDI Registry• Authentication• Auditing
• Access• WSDL• Orchestration• Messaging• Failover• Instrumentation
• Web Pages• JS
• CSS• JSON
Shared Presentation Services
• eCRUD Services • Traditional Simple CRUD Services
• Composite Services
eCRUD Service: A data schema agnostic service that enables rapid application development and enhancement without server-side coding
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Questions?
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