Brand Niemann, the former senior enterprise architect and data scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, contends the new shared-services strategy launched by Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra sounds a lot like a prior plan for service-oriented architecture.

Niemann joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the similarity between the two plans.

Niemann also compared the shared-services strategy and the older SOA plan in an article on AOLGovernment.

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