Enterprise Solution Services

The ESS division provides services based on the enterprise architecture disciplines of business capability modeling, use case creation, requirements gathering, and related solution guidance. ESS provides technology assessments to Texas state agencies at no cost. 

Facilitating inter-agency collaborative communities 

The ESS team leads collaboration workshops, special interest groups, and discovery sessions with state agency business program owners and enterprise architects. These forums raise awareness of common needs and encourage discovery of solutions that work. Agencies that partner in joint solutions can leverage commodity or bulk purchases, shared resources, and reduced net investment of time and money. 

Texas Cloud Tiger Team

The primary goal of this technically proficient "volunteer army" was to help accelerate cloud adoption through increased collaboration between agencies, local governments, institutions of higher education, and 14 leading cloud vendors and industry organizations. The team is driving a new path in collaborating for a cause across process, people, and technology.

Providing solution architecture guidance 

These services include solution architecture guidance and mentoring, and the promotion of enterprise architecture practices. All guidance is informed by the tenets of the State Strategic Plan for Information Resources Management and makes use of various DIR enterprise service offerings (such as Data Center Services, Texas.gov, and Telecommunications) where appropriate.