Beth Angerman

• Progress and Opportunities in Federal Shared Services

  Federal shared IT and other services make all the sense in the world. So why aren’t more agencies doing it? And what will it take to expand use of shared services?

  Federal Insights

  June 02, 2016
• Not the Montgomery Ward, but the shared services catalog

  The Treasury Department isn't quite getting ready for the Christmas buying season, but it is preparing for the shared services buying season. Treasury will release a catalog of shared services early in 2015.

  Management

  November 17, 2014
• Treasury begins shared services quest to educate, integrate

  The Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation issued two RFIs in the last few weeks. One announced an industry day for May 21, and the other is looking for ideas to improve how the government manages and integrates data from different systems.

  Management

  May 08, 2014
• Treasury figuring out how the shared services pieces fit into governmentwide puzzle

  In part 3 of our special report, Shared Services Revisited, Federal News Radio explores the administration's plans to ensure success in consolidating and standardizing financial systems this time around. Beth Angerman, director of Treasury's Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (OFIT), said the goal is creating a repeatable, sustainable process for agencies to move to federal financial management providers. Over the next six months, Treasury and OMB must answer many of the outstanding questions about how this initiative will truly work.

  Technology

  April 10, 2014
• Financial management providers ill-equipped to take on large customers

  In our special report, Shared Services Revisited, OMB still must solve long-standing challenges to ensure federal providers are capable of bringing on large, cabinet level agencies. The role of the private sector is leaving some vendors unhappy, but officials say history shows their success rate with financial management system implementation to be poor.

  Technology

  April 09, 2014
• Familiar questions, few answers so far for OMB’s latest financial systems effort

  In part 1 of Federal News Radio's special report, this second attempt by OMB to move agencies to financial management shared services is fraught with the same obstacles of a decade ago. But OMB believes this attempt at shared services is different. The administration says budget concerns and technology advancements will help overcome these long-standing barriers.

  Technology

  April 08, 2014