Success Stories

Home > Customers > Success Stories > CSREES Uses Enterprise Architecture to Facil ...

CSREES Uses Enterprise Architecture to Facilitate Change and Improve Communication

 

The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), sought a more efficient system to improve work processes, identify inefficiencies and redundancies in systems, and integrate the organization at a functional level.

 

Read more

downloadDownload

%name_start/customer/logo_csrees.jpg%name_end

Agency Solves Challenges in Agriculture, the Environment, and Health

CSREES is an important agency within the USDA, the leading federal bureau on food, agriculture, and natural resources issues. CSREES advances knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health, and communities by supporting research and education through a grants program of $1.2 billion each year. These grants go to thousands of recipients for research and education in some 60 program areas.

[...]

Need to Understand and Manage Processes and Information

Because CSREES administers such a large grants program, it became more essential to fully document the entire process, which is quite complex. However, CSREES had a very basic enterprise architecture that did not provide a comprehensive picture of the agency’s efforts and most records were still on paper.

[...]

EA Solution to Meet Stringent Criteria

With well-defined criteria, CSREES conducted an evaluation of EA software products from the major providers to federal government agencies. After the review, CSREES selected the MEGA Modeling Suite as its EA solution, to help the agency align its technical infrastructure and support systems with the functions and services provided to constituents. CSREES uses five of the modules from the MEGA Modeling Suite: MEGA Process, MEGA Architecture, MEGA Designer, MEGA Publisher, and MEGA Exchange.

CSREES selected MEGA International because of the company's ability to meet the defined criteria and provide a complete, cost-effective solution of software, training, and consulting, and the full breadth of EA modeling, reporting, and impact analysis.

[...]


>> Download the PDF

backBack

© Copyright MEGA, 1994 - 2008. All rights reserved