The State of Kansas
Office of the Chief Information Architect
Information Technology Advisory Board Committees
Chair: Jeff Lewis, Corrections
Issues/Activities
- State OA/EM Mission Statement
Make recommendations for an enterprise-wide, standards-based, electronic messaging, and global
directory service that seamlessly integrates flexible e-mail systems to provide unified service.
- Road Blocks to Electronic Messaging
- E-mail incompatibilities
- Requirement for reliable message delivery
- Incompatible directory information
- Inconsistent decentralized administration
- Complexity of technology deployment
- Lack of distributed information access
- Lack of security and privacy
- Recommended Approaches
- Standards-based backbone
- Long-term investment protection requries standards
- Infrastructure for mail enabled applications
- Flexible Design
- Overview of Desired Solution
- Standards-based messaging and directory backbone
- Interoperability
- Enterprise directory
- Infrastructure for electronic business applications
- Flexible design and integrated solution
- Future Directions of Electronic Messaging
- The Internet and Intranets
- Message Stores
- Groupware/Collaborative/Automation
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