Friday, August 16, 2002

No Enterprise License for eWork Due to resource constraints and lack of clear product space, the pursuit of an enterprise licensing structure for eWork has been discontinued.  This does not mean that the door to developing eWork processes has been closed.  ITS and the CIO's office are managing the distribution of a total of 1000 full user licenses, so agencies can still develop ework processes on a limited basis and take advantage of the available licenses. This would bring up the question, "well, what about the forms RFP and e forms in general?  What is being done about that?"  I will be working on answering those questions in the near future.  Please contact me if you have any questions. 3:01:14 PM

Enterprise Employee Portal One of the products that I currently manage is the Utah Enterprise Employee Portal (EEP).  EEP uses Novell's Portal Services product.  There are two broad issues with this product that I wish to address in this entry. First, EEP is an enterprise project by definition.  With the recent announcement of the future CIO/DCIO/ACIO structure and the description of the procedure for enterprise projects, it is obvious that this product should be number 11 on the governor's list of 10 projects.  As such, it needs to be presented during cabinet council, and I am working towards that end.  I think that visibility will do the product some real good, and hopefully it gain the full support of the governor and the cabinet. Second, an Enterprise Employee Portal should be the content aggregation point for all content useful to employees.  Its purpose would be defeated if employees had to continue to go hither and yon to get information, or depend on email broadcasts for it.  We have several really great sources of content that belong on the portal.  Much effort is exerted by many different people in different agencies to gather information.  That effort and the implied ownership of the content has, in the past, been a barrier to centralizing it all into one location.  With the advent of RSS (some say that means "Really Simple Syndication" but it really means "Rich Site Summary") and the compatibility of the Novell Portal Services product with RSS, there really isn't anything stopping us from allowing content owners to continue creating and owning content and at the same time making it available for inculsion in the portal. Basically I agree with Windley's view in his document on this topic.  I will be pushing in this direction. 2:08:19 PM

Windley's Words on IT Restructuring Reorganizing IT. Last week (before I went on vacation), Governor Leavitt announced a restructuring of IT in Utah State government.  The change was covered by the local press (The SL Tribune covered it as well, but has a stupid policy of only allowing access to the last week's issues without paying a fee).  This change is designed to increase our capacity to create cross agency eGovernment applications as well as to strengthen the enterprise view of IT.  My life has suddenly gotten a lot busier as I work to implement this plan.  Its clear from the Governor's letter that he expects business line managers to be more conversant in IT and for IT to be more aligned with business.  Utah has long been recognized as a leader among the various states in the management of IT and its use of eGovernment.  I believe that these changes and the direction they set will allow us to maintain that leadership in the face of some pretty stiff competition.  [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 12:37:43 PM

Blog On Well, it has been some time since my last entry on my blog.  It is not because I lost interest in it; my workload and inexplicable technical difficulties prevented it.  I'm back now, and I hope to use this tool to its fullest extent.  11:53:40 AM

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