The Enterprise Life Cycle Alliance

The IT Planning Experts
Helping You Get To Green

 
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The ELCA Difference

Developed with the guidance and support of FEDSIM, the Enterprise Life Cycle Alliance provides the experts and resources you need to:

  • Maximize limited IT planning resources
  • Create a unified IT framework
  • Neatly link all your IT planning activities
  • Leverage results from one planning component to the next
  • Ensure compliance
  • Drive funding of critical IT initiatives
  • Achieve higher ITIM maturity

ELCA has been developed in close cooperation with the Interoperability Clearinghouse (ICH), a not-for-profit collaboration working to identify and share enterprise IT best practices with government.

Enterprise Architecture Planning Before ELCA
 

  • Each planning component is its own island
  • Limited planning resources drive minimum effort
  • Limited consistency across components
  • Duplication of efforts from component to component
  • Capital planning is an afterthought
  • No big picture - focus on individual projects, not the enterprise

Enterprise Architecture Planning after ELCA
 
  • Organized
  • Business requirements and performance metrics serve as common thread for each planning component
  • Logical integration of all componenets
  • Seamless connectivity and flow among components
  • Business goals drive planning process
  • Business-oriented metrics established early on for consistent baseline
  • Capital planning addressed throughout process
  • Complete support for regulatory compliance
  • Budget submission process (Exhibit 300) simplified
  • Objective, reliable, reusable results realized

 

Partners


Interoperability Clearinghouse

Arcturus

Technology Decision Modeling
GSA Contract Number: GS06T02BND0323