Agency At A Glance – Agency for Enterprise Information Technology

Legislative Agenda

• Develop, monitor and recommend strategies for the design, delivery and
management of enterprise information technology (IT) services established in
law.

• Plan and Monitor Information Technology Security.

Agency Challenges

• AEIT is a policy organization with an extremely limited mission and little

enterprise authority.

• AEIT is empowered only to make recommendations on how to move forward with

the enterprise IT services listed in statute, which currently consist of data center
functions, e-mail, and some IT security services.

• No agency provides strategic oversight in planning for business-level IT services

or operational oversight of statewide IT activities and investments that fall
outside the three services listed above.

• AEIT or a governing body needs authority to address standards and policy

outside of the primary data centers.

Near Term Critical Risk Factors

• Maintain current staffing levels

• Implement Disaster Recovery

Opportunities for Cost Savings

• Data Center Consolidation and FST project

i) Projected to save $17 million annually at completion.

• Enterprise E-mail

i) Reduce number of e-mail systems from 30+ to one.

ii) Initial cost saving of up to $1 million annually.

• Establish hardware and software standards

• Aggregate IT purchasing

Agency Leadership
• Executive Director Taylor

a) Empower Director Taylor to become more aggressive with consolidation

projects

b) Complement Director Taylor with an IT Strategist to develop a strong IT vision

for Florida

• Director Russo

Invest in Director Russo’s effort to implement a comprehensive cyber security

plan