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Supporting Electronic Government Collections Russ Kuehn Financial Management Service

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Supporting Electronic Government Collections Russ Kuehn Financial Management Service

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    1. Hello Please call me Russ Service Oriented Agency = Financial Management Service Pay.gov is the Internet “Channel” for government collections. Hello Please call me Russ Service Oriented Agency = Financial Management Service Pay.gov is the Internet “Channel” for government collections.

    2. What is Pay.gov Today you have heard a lot about: Pay.gov is the application of the SOA Theory. It is a number of services provided to enable the collection of funds via the Internet. Today you have heard a lot about: Pay.gov is the application of the SOA Theory. It is a number of services provided to enable the collection of funds via the Internet.

    3. Pay.gov Services Collection Service Collects and processes Credit/Debit Card transactions or ACH Debit transactions from agency users (either citizens, businesses, or other government payees). Forms Service Hosts an agency’s forms, mirroring their paper counterparts. Forms can be used to gather information (data), to enable the collection of a payment, or both. Forms are built by Pay.gov developers and can have multiple data-types, calculations, and even pre-populations based on user. Billing/Notification Service Allows agencies to e-mail notifications that information is available for them to view on line without an associated payment or can notify the user of a required payment such as a bill. Verification Service Provides Knowledge Based Authentication by verifying user information against multiple industry information repositories to establish identity. Reporting Service Provides financial and operational reports about transactions to agencies and administrators. Collection Service Collects and processes Credit/Debit Card transactions or ACH Debit transactions from agency users (either citizens, businesses, or other government payees). Forms Service Hosts an agency’s forms, mirroring their paper counterparts. Forms can be used to gather information (data), to enable the collection of a payment, or both. Forms are built by Pay.gov developers and can have multiple data-types, calculations, and even pre-populations based on user. Billing/Notification Service Allows agencies to e-mail notifications that information is available for them to view on line without an associated payment or can notify the user of a required payment such as a bill. Verification Service Provides Knowledge Based Authentication by verifying user information against multiple industry information repositories to establish identity. Reporting Service Provides financial and operational reports about transactions to agencies and administrators.

    4. Pay.gov Services

    5. Benefits of Pay.gov Efficiencies of Scale The services offered by Pay.gov bring efficiencies of scale (cost of development, maintenance and operations) to multiple agencies, and thereby allowing each agency to gain efficiencies in the context of its business processes. Reduction of Switching Costs FMS strives to find the optimal balance between financial agents, operators, subcontractors and settlement providers, and thus avoiding potential “vendor lock-in” at each agency level. Ability to “switch” providers of authorization, credit card settlement, ACH Debit without affecting Agencies or their customers.Ability to “switch” providers of authorization, credit card settlement, ACH Debit without affecting Agencies or their customers.

    6. Benefits of Pay.gov Improved control over level of service By centralizing the services offered by Pay.gov, FMS maintains control over level of service provided as compared to a dispersed set of capabilities procured by each agency and operated by different commercial entities. FMS can provide leadership to all agencies with compliance over legal requirements concerning electronic financial services. Improved Collections Efficiency Pay.gov allows for end users to efficiently conduct financial transactions with multiple agencies, and thereby providing timely collection of federal government receipts at the net lower cost.

    7. Architecture View

    8. Architecture Overview Leverages SOA to organize a set of discrete business functions into interoperable, standards-based services that can be combined and reused quickly to meet business needs Services are built on BEA Platform using J2EE based on industry best practices and patterns Leverages COTS products to provide underlying capabilities where possible Supports highly customizable personalized access control to the services to a wide variety of user types

    9. Architecture View Interfaces

    10. Architecture View Security Pay.gov currently supports … Certificate-Based Authentication Password-Based Authentication/SSL Identity Management (LDAP/TWAI) Knowledge-Based Authentication (Verification Service)

    11. Current Statistics Agencies using Pay.gov: 86 Number of Cashflows: 181 Number of Forms Hosted: 90 Number of Billing Applications: 11 Number of VS Applications: 2 Dollars Collected FY04: 3.84B Dollars Collected FYTD: 5.34B (8/31/05)

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