Business Transformation Agency

ACART Accelerates the DoD Business Transformation Agency's (BTA) System Investment Analysis

Working collaboratively with the Services and Defense agencies, EM&I developed and fielded a new automated management tool for the BTA to help accelerate implementation of and compliance to the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) across DoD.

ACART's Role
Instead of telling the story ourselves, we'll let the March 2007 Congressional Report speak for itself. Helping the BTA to accelerate the implementation of the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) across the entire DoD, EM&I developed ACART. ACART is a management tool that BTA described as follows:

"The ACART software application allows Defense business personnel to easily view a system through the BEA lens, and thereby rapidly identify only those compliance requirements, gaps and redundancies that are relevant. In this way, ACART works as an intelligent 'wizard-like' application that significantly reduces the time-intensive activity of manually sorting and analyzing complex and inter-dependent architecture and federal regulatory requirements.

Since its launch approximately six months ago, ACART has widely proven its business value among the DoD components. Currently, over 200 business systems (including ERPs) across the Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and the Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) are using ACART to better understand the system's linkages with the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture's set of common business rules, information exchanges, DoD Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS) and other data elements, federal laws, policies and regulations. Also, because ACART enables system program managers and investment managers to focus on relevant requirements only, the system generates system-specific compliance reports that directly support the Department's standardized Investment Review Board (IRB) process.

In addition to assisting the components in BEA compliance, ACART is being successfully used to feed the Department's Business Capabilities governance framework, which comprises the BEA and investment review. The information captured in and generated by ACART helps to provide key metrics for investment review and decisions."

ACART Creates Business Value

	ACART's wide-adoption by Army, Navy, DLA and other DoD component organizations has been a key   tool for understanding the BEA and assessing system compliance.
	Using ACART, DoD enterprise and component managers have been able to provide feedback and   recommendations that improve the BEA in the areas of content and clarity. These recommendations   have been documented by theBTA for evaluation and adaptation into future business transformation   efforts, including future BEA releases.