Status: preliminary (Analysis based on the Austrian eGovernment Federation - other experiences very welcome)
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- Larger agencies with own IT-shop. They usually run an integrated provisioning system for their users and want to integrate internal and external applications. The number of security regulations should be kept low. They have a fast benefit from integrating their provisioning using the federation.
- Agencies with outsourced IT: They are initially neutral to whatever makes their systems work. If the number of applications rises, they realize that provisioning is much faster within a federation.
Business model for agencies providing external applications
Some organizations with a more centralized or coordinated IT-strategy submit their application development and purchasing to the standards required by the federation and have a single deployment and management schema.
Organizations with more decentralized IT competences usually have more trouble to understand the benefits of a common approach. The cost to communicate, understand and implement federation concepts is frequently perceived higher than short-term project-specific benefits.
Business model for other parties
The Federal Chancellery is the (not for profit) federation operator and its operation is quite light-weight. Other than that there are no parties except product and service providers.