Utah's Enterprise IT Projects
Yesterday, the Governor Leavitt's cabinet unanimously approved charters for three enterprise projects. The projects are 1) electronic Resource and Eligibility Product (eREP), 2) the one-stop business registration project, and 3) Email Consolidation. Each of these projects differ tremendously in their approach.
eREP is a massive project with $18 million or so allocated for the first phase. A contract has been awarded to IBM. The enterprise project executive is Connie Laws.
We expect the one-stop business registration to become a model for other cross-agency projects. It involves participation from local government (three cities during the initial phase), the federal government (IRS is on-board), and numerous state agencies. It would be easy for the scope to creep on this one and become unwieldy, but we have an excellent enterprise project executive, James Whitaker from the Department of Workforce Services, who will keep it moving forward.
Finally, the email consolidation project will move forward with the creation of an enterprise engineering team that will put together the details of this project which is focused on infrastructure and consolidation.
The cabinet also voted to approve moving ahead into the next stage for master licensing which has been recast as "enterprise permitting", the common payment portal, and the homeland security project which is actually several projects rolled into one.
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