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... 64 The transition to cloud-hosted EIPs entails changing culture, policies, and processes, an effort that may not be successful on the first attempt. States look to peers within state or city agencies (e.g., other departments such as housing or health)
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... DOT Portal Use Cases 65 increasing number of users and varying user needs were outpacing the capabilities of the underlying system, which was quickly becoming unsustainable. To address these challenges, the Transportation Planning and Programming Division explored how best to proceed.
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... 66 Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals The absence of enterprise information management expertise within TxDOT was recognized early by the STARS II program champion. A project manager with IT program execution expertise was engaged through a consultancy contract to support the planning and the migration for a term of 1.5 years.
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... DOT Portal Use Cases 67 user services, not on data management. Moreover, IT structures were demanding standards and processes that were inconsistent with business unit data needs and use.
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... 68 Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals 6.2.2.1 Innovation in Data Storage As UDOT migrates to the DTS service, it leaves behind expensive storage solutions such as SAN for less costly commodity hardware-based storage solutions used in the DTS private cloud. UDOT will also procure SaaS through third-party contracts.
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... DOT Portal Use Cases 69 Users can enter an address in northern Virginia to see a color-coded snow map that indicates the plowing status in that area: • Green indicates a neighborhood has been plowed, • Yellow means plows are in progress in the neighborhood, • Blue indicates plows have not yet started the neighborhood, and • Gray means the area is not maintained by VDOT. Cities, towns, and some developments maintain their own roads.

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