The project perspective ensures that the projects are done properly. A business model is critical to business process re-engineering and quality initiatives. Modeling business functions facilitates making decisions and planning. A data model is critical to sharing information and ensuring that data support the information needs of the organization. High-level data models help an agency or information resource community manage and share its data effectively.
Models collectively describe project data and how they are used to support business functions.
A distribution model is critical to illustrating the physical distribution of data stores among the major business locations. A technology model is critical to RFP development efforts. The technology model is a vendor neutral specification of capacity and compatibility requirements. The agency or information resource community should be structured so that resources can be appropriately managed and shared. The management of information resources will require agencies and information resource communities to assess their organization for its readiness to develop, operate and maintain its information resources.