Analysis: Shared-services strategy resembles SOA plan

Brand Niemann, the former senior enterprise architect and data scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the...

“The more things change the more they stay the same” isn’t just a philosophical statement. Some say it could describe recent federal IT developments.

Brand Niemann, the former senior enterprise architect and data scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, contends the new shared-services strategy launched by Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra sounds a lot like a prior plan for service-oriented architecture.

Niemann joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the similarity between the two plans.

Niemann also compared the shared-services strategy and the older SOA plan in an article on AOLGovernment.

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