BBH Provides Strategic IT Plan for NJ's Largest HA

The Housing Authority of the City of Newark (NHA) operates approximately 8,000 units of public housing scattered over 40 project-sites, and administers more than 4,500 Section 8 Rental Vouchers. It is also the contract administration for nine project-based Section 8 properties and performs various redevelopment activities in the City of Newark. Currently, the Authority has a staff of over 900 and the annual expenditure of Federal awards for fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 was approximately $155 million.
BBH employed their IT Life Cycle Methodology implemented on the Expertool platform. BBH Services include:

Analyze current IT application Systems
Analyze current IT hardware
Analyze current IT network infrastructure
Examine the current support services
Analyze capability and capacity of current IT resources
Review current projects and project proposals
Conduct interviews with end user community
Perform gap analysis
Develop IT Strategy
Develop 5-Year Implementation Plan

In just 12 weeks, the project team delivered an actionable IT strategic plan and implementation plan in Expertool. The plan provides a roadmap for replacing in-house developed applications into an integrated solution build on top of enterprise-grade foundation applications. The planning model will allow NHA to monitor progress on the plan and support future planning initiatives.

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