1 Moving to a new Administration: Collaboration and Shared Services Technology Service Oriented Architecture Conference John W. Cox, CFO U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

2 AGENDA E-Government role today –External Applications –On the Horizon--FMLoB –Internal Applications Future – What’s next? Q&A

3 External E-Gov Initiatives Enterprise Income Verification (EIV): Allows PHAs to verify wage income, social security and supplemental social security income, new hire data, and unemployment information. Pay.Gov Grants.Gov HIHRTS e-Performance Implementation results: Need for Better Integration.

4 External E-Gov Initiatives (Continued) WebTA: FedTraveler: Smartpay: Implementation results: Need for Better Integration

5 Internal (HUD) E-Gov Initiatives HITS –Firm Fixed Price: Good News/Bad News –Incentives in Contracts (Carrot and Stick) –Need for Flexibility in Contracts Financial Data Mart – better, more timely information for decision making

6 Internal (HUD) E-Gov Initiatives (Continued) Hyperion Financial Management – moving from client server to web-based application HIFMIP –FMLoB –Common Business Practices; Better Funds Control Appraiser and Lender Watch

7 HUD SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FY 2009 Replace or retire 10 systems by 2009, 14 by 2013 Build on the successful PeopleSoft COTS roll-outs at FHA and Ginnie Mae Goal is a single, integrated general ledger

8 HUD SHIFTS ITS EMPHASIS Beyond number crunching to data and risk analysis and improved performance.

9 Key System Modernization Goals “HUD Integrated Financial Management Improvement Project” (HIFMIP) Assure funds control at all levels and employ clear relationship to budget formulation. Consolidate financial systems department- wide on the PeopleSoft COTS package, leveraging a common solution. –Mitigates risk –Cost avoidance –Business requirements fit

10 Key System Modernization Goals “HUD Integrated Financial Management Improvement Project” (HIFMIP) (Continued) Create user-friendly system interfaces Pay careful attention to data quality issues. Enable direct access to standardized, accurate timely information which will improve productivity and focus on providing better analytical information. Lower transaction processing costs. Link agency performance to costs; increase capability to accurately measure and report activity-level program costs; and maximize ROI. Provide efficient reporting and fiscal year end closings.

11 OMB’s financial management line of business (FMLOB) initiative is an important component of the PMA for improving overall government performance management, focusing on business- driven, common solutions to help address financial management system weaknesses and implementation failures. On the Horizon: Financial Management Line of Business

12 FMLoB Vision/Framework

13 FMLoB Benefits  Increased ability to focus on analytics and management instead of transactional system coordination  Reduced licensing and integration costs  Reduced operations and maintenance costs through combined services  Sharing of hardware, software and infrastructure  Broader agency choices for obtaining services  More standardized operations across bureaus and agencies

14 Limited resources available Competing government-wide initiatives Varying levels of commitment among some federal officials to address long-standing financial management issues Complexity of compliance requirements, danger exists that accounting compliance requirements have become so prescriptive that they may begin to drive business processes rather than business processes driving accounting processes. FMLoB Challenges

15 Future Outlook: What’s next? Future of E-Gov: Will this remain a priority for the next Administration? E-Gov funding outlook Number of New Systems Planned (HUD and Government- wide)

16 This Won’t Get the Job Done

17 Future of E-Gov E-Gov improves the speed and quality with which Government provides information and services to citizens, employees, and other constituent groups Challenge for Agencies is to develop user- centric E-Government applications and make their use intuitive.

18 Adapt to best business processes Designs that optimize results and minimize rework Simplify and consolidate data and environment Minimize customizations Strong Senior Management Support with a focus on project management Financial Managers must continue to strive to provide value-added service to our core mission functions. SUMMARY

19 Q & A