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Applications Template and Outfitting Model — ATOM

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:

  • Learn how to define an Internet-based applications project, identify business needs and objectives, create the right project team and minimize risks
  • Navigate through the authorizing environment in sequence and easily locate appropriate policies, standards and guidelines (payments, privacy, security, archiving, auditing architecture, Web presentation)
  • Connect with new technologies (digital signature, Web server hosting, e-forms, online applications support)
  • 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.