Government Enterprise Architecture
Encyclopedia
The Government Enterprise Architecture (also known as the GEA) is an initiative of the Queensland
Chief Information Office (QGCIO) in Australia
and provides a guiding framework for Queensland Government's development, use, and management of information technology
(IT) assets. The framework is designed to support the development of better services for Queenslanders, more efficient and effective use of ICT in government, and effective partnering with the private sector.
Compliance with the GEA is a requirement of the Queensland Government's Financial Management Standard
.
Loosely based on the META Group Enterprise Architecture Service methodology the first version was published in May 2001.
After an internal review of IT management across the Queensland Government in 2005 this original effort was replaced by the expanded GEA. At the same time the notion of enterprise architecture
became enshrined in legislation in the form of the Financial Management Standard
. This became one of the first known examples of enterprise architecture being explicitly mandated by a government body.
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
Chief Information Office (QGCIO) in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and provides a guiding framework for Queensland Government's development, use, and management of information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
(IT) assets. The framework is designed to support the development of better services for Queenslanders, more efficient and effective use of ICT in government, and effective partnering with the private sector.
Compliance with the GEA is a requirement of the Queensland Government's Financial Management Standard
Financial Management Standard
The Financial Management Standard 1997 is a state law of the Queensland Government empowered by the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 ...
.
History
The former Department of Communication and Information, Local Government, Planning and Sport commenced a project in early 1999 to define what was called at the time a Government Information Architecture with the aim of improving the interoperability of communication and information systems and the sharing of information resources across Queensland Government agencies.Loosely based on the META Group Enterprise Architecture Service methodology the first version was published in May 2001.
After an internal review of IT management across the Queensland Government in 2005 this original effort was replaced by the expanded GEA. At the same time the notion of enterprise architecture
Enterprise architecture
An enterprise architecture is a rigorous description of the structure of an enterprise, which comprises enterprise components , the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them...
became enshrined in legislation in the form of the Financial Management Standard
Financial Management Standard
The Financial Management Standard 1997 is a state law of the Queensland Government empowered by the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 ...
. This became one of the first known examples of enterprise architecture being explicitly mandated by a government body.