Arizona Enterprise Services Platform(AESP), Rollout and Adoption of a Statewide Private PaaS

Prasad PuttaDirector of Enterprise Technology Services, ASET office

DOA, State of Arizona

Private PaaS at government?

21st century economy

The Numbers

• 32K state employees

• 170 business units

• ~1400 IT Personnel

• 100+ datacenter/server rooms

• AWS, Azure – 500+ instances

Who is ASET(Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology) ?

• Statewide IT strategy

• Enterprise capabilities

• Policies and procedures

• Oversight –high risk projects

Business Problems

• Projects starting from scratch

• Re-inventing the wheel

• Inefficient Data Sharing Practices

• Redundant solutions throughout the Enterprise

• License Costs

• Security

Objectives

• Reduce Costs and ensure sustainability

• Enforce Standards

• Generate and grow revenue from data and services

• Reduce risk

• Ease of Development/maintenance

AESP – A Private PaaS on a Public Cloud

• Custom Applications

• APIs and Data sharing

• Collaboration environment--API centric across the state

• Rapid Application Development

• Economies of scale-- Cheap, cost savings at the state/agency level

• Private to the State--mitigates security and compliances

Architecture-today

Architecture tomorrow

Challenges

• Opt-in

• Support model for 24x7

• Can’t lose, can’t profit Pricing model

Strategies that worked

Eat your own dog food

• Vendor Lookup (GAO/DOA) - AHCCCS, RISK

• eCorp (ACC) - DEQ• Employee Search (TRP/DOA)• Local Government (ASET/DOA)

- AZ.GOV• ClaimsManagement (ASET/DOA

) - GAO• Agency Lookup (ASET/DOA) • Facebook @Workplace

Size the menu right

WSO2 MANAGED CLOUD

Cost recovery model – work in progress

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Thank You!