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VA Enterprise Architecture

Business Domain - Models & Reports

The Business Domain describes VA’s capabilities, business functions, processes, organizations, laws, regulations, policies, and directives that are exercised to accomplish the agency’s mission. Most elements of this domain are enabled by data, information, systems, and technologies from the other VA EA domains. The models and reports in this domain, when combined with information from other domains, can provide new insights into gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for business, process, and technology improvements.

Select a title below to display the description and click on Artifacts to request the associated models and reports.

Title Description Artifact(s)
VA Business Reference Model (BRM) - UPDATED
VA Business Reference Model

The VA Business Reference Model (VA BRM) is the authoritative model that incorporates all VA business Mission Areas, Capabilities, Service Lines, and Business Functions (including those of the Administrations and Staff Offices) to provide a holistic view of VA’s business operations. It integrates the lower-level Business Functions of the Administration and Staff Offices to provide a complete view of the work being performed by the Department. This integrated model establishes a common functional taxonomy that can be used across the department to support Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) and other processes. The VA BRM also includes the services contained in the Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF), as well as the unique capabilities and business functions performed by the VA.

Authoritative Source(s): VA BRM Coordination (May 2022)
Request copy of a report by submitting a request to ea@va.gov
VA Organization-related Reports - UPDATED
Functional Organization Manual (FOM) 7.0 Report

The Functional Organization Manual (FOM) serves as the authoritative source for VA’s organizational structure. The FOM 7.0 report provides a list of VA’s organizational units, their descriptions, acronyms, parent organizations, and the administrations or staff offices they belong to.

Authoritative Source(s): VA Functional Organization Manual (FOM) v7.0 (2021) – Volume One Administrations, VA Functional Organization Manual (FOM) v7.0 (2021) – Volume Two Staff Offices
Request copy of a report by submitting a request to ea@va.gov
Organization to BRM Report

The Business Reference Model (BRM) illustrates and describes the Mission Areas, Capabilities, Functions, and Business Functions the department uses to execute its mission. The organization to BRM dashboard provides the entire BRM, including hierarchical numbers and the organization responsible for each Capability, Function, and Business Function.

Authoritative Source(s): VA Functional Organization Manual (FOM) v7.0 (2021) – Volume One Administrations, VA Functional Organization Manual (FOM) v7.0 (2021) – Volume Two Staff Offices, VA BRM Coordination (September 2021)
Request copy of a report by submitting a request to ea@va.gov
VA BRM to OIT Process Asset Library (PAL) Enterprise Processes Mapping Reports - UPDATED
VA BRM to OIT Process Asset Library (PAL) Mapping Report

The VA BRM to OIT Process Asset Library (PAL) Mapping Report illustrates the relationship between VA BRM elements (Capabilities, Service Lines, Business Functions) and VA Business Processes maintained in the PAL Library. It establishes the traceability between VA BRM business functions and associated VA enterprise business processes, and enables the identification of gaps, redundancy and opportunities for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of VA enterprise business processes.

Authoritative Source(s): VA OIT Process Asset Library (January 2023)
Request copy of a report by submitting a request to ea@va.gov
Data Subject Area Models Information Class to VA BRM Reports - UPDATED
Data Subject Area Models Information Class to VA BRM Report

The Data Subject Area Models Information Class to VA BRM Report illustrates how the DGC subject area data entities (information classes) are related to specific VA BRM Functions and Business Functions and provides the necessary business context related to a DGC subject area data entity (information class) to:

  • Support the discovery of relevant data standards.
  • Enable improved functional integration.
  • Support decision makers in making required trade off and investment analysis in support of VA requirements for enterprise data sharing and data management.
  • Identify systems that may contain relevant data (i.e. all systems with a given business function could/should contain similar information classes) to support ADS migration planning.
Authoritative Source(s): Data Governance Council (DGC) Subject Area Information Model (December 2020)
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