The tender for the first stage of the development, the directory infrastructure - dubbed Project Rosetta - will be advertised tomorrow. nformation and Communication Technology Minister Marsha Thomson said the five-year project would form a backbone for "robust and reliable" e-government services.
A government spokesman said the directory would bring capabilities for identity management across the whole of the Victorian government.
This will include simplified sign-on, provisioning and workflow applications, he said.
"Project Rosetta will establish the infrastructure for an integrated and automated directory service to allow secure provision of accurate information on people, resources, assets and services across the whole of the Victorian Government," Ms Thomson said.
The project will work with existing government information contained in a variety of applications from companies such as Oracle, Lotus, Microsoft, SAP, Novell and IBM, to "unlock" the capability of government directories.
The directory infrastructure will be implemented across ten core government departments.
The government anticipates the project will be implemented within a 15 to 18 month timeframe.
Requirements of tender applicants include the design and implementation of the directory infrastructure, development of an identity management framework and the implementation of extended business functionality.
Tenders will close October 24 2003.
Quelle: Australian IT
