The
Applications Template and Outfitting Model (ATOM) is a comprehensive
and detailed roadmap for the fast and efficient way to build digital government
applications. It takes the guesswork out of starting a project, and much of the
research and heavy lifting out of finishing it. ATOM, much like a building code
for the bricks and mortar community, walks project teams through the process of
developing and executing applications in the Digital Washington environment:
each task, step by step, start to finish.
Features:
ATOM provides a mechanism to mine time and effort out of the process of
developing new Internet applications to create new electronic services.
With ATOM, developers use a common set of building blocks in Internet
applications while taking advantage of a consistent approach to project
planning and securing the necessary authorizations and approvals.
Benefits:
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Learn how to define an Internet-based applications project, identify business
needs and objectives, create the right project team and minimize risks
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Navigate through the authorizing environment in sequence and easily locate
appropriate policies, standards and guidelines (payments, privacy, security,
archiving, auditing architecture, Web presentation)
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Connect with new technologies (digital signature, Web server hosting, e-forms,
online applications support)
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Download the latest templates, code and script to speed development
The use of common components brings at least four significant benefits to the
orderly development of Digital Washington. First, it helps to ensure a common
experience for citizen and business users of public sector Internet
applications. Second, it helps ensure the development of similarly functioning
applications within the shared environment and on the user's desktop. Third, it
drives development costs down because neither the agency nor its contractor has
to re-invent ten major aspects of Internet development. Fourth, and most
important, it allows all parties to play to their core strengths.