BI and Government Performance Management: Getting to Green.

This article focuses on data/information integration as a critical enabler of government performance management and the U.S. President's Management Agenda, which is aimed at improving Federal government performance. Accordingly, the business analysis methods and data warehousing design and development methods that have been successfully employed in private industry to deploy business intelligence and data warehousing applications are extremely well-suited for government performance management and for achieving specific President's Management Agenda agenda items. That said, there are barriers to applying business intelligence/data warehousing in the Federal environment that must be overcome to truly realize the potential of business intelligence/data warehousing to meet the challenges of the President's Management Agenda and the mandates of key legislative and regulatory actions. There is a very strong fit between the capabilities of business intelligence and data warehousing technologies and the critical need for integrated performance management information to meet requirements of the President's Management Agenda. In essence, file performance management information required by legislative and regulatory mandates represents distinct but overlapping and complementary views of the same thing, government performance.