Public Sector Shared Services Architecture
An anonymized Larkinized engagement illustrating EA value in government.
Client Context
A state government consolidating HR and finance IT across twelve agencies. Larkinized engaged with CIO and business sponsors across government.
Challenge
Political resistance; agency-specific statutory rules; legacy COBOL dependencies.
Approach
Shared service capability map; transition architectures per agency; funding model clarity.
Architecture Decisions
Multi-tenant SaaS with agency config layers; API to legacy where needed.
Outcomes
Three agencies migrated; cost per transaction trending down.
Lessons Learned
Shared services architecture must encode statutory exceptions explicitly.
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