Business Problem
IRS PRIME
is a 15-year $10 billion Business Systems Modernization
Project to modernize all Internal Revenue Service
applications.
The main
objective of this project is to take the IRS tax agency
from a paper-pushing system to an interactive online
program for taxpayers. Among the goals are to deliver
tax refunds in as little as two days instead of five
weeks, enable taxpayers to receive e-mail messages from
the IRS about their returns and track the status of
refunds online, and enable IRS Business Analysts/SMEs
(non-programmers) to author and modify business rules
without reprogramming or recompiling.
The CADE Project
(Customer Account Data Engine) is one of the first and
key pieces of the entire program: It will convert all
Individual and Business Taxpayer Master Files from tape
to DB2. All 250,000 IRS Business Rules for processing
Individual Tax Returns will be stored in a rule engine
instead of being hard-coded. Phase 1 will process
1040-EZ tax returns for the 2002 filing season.
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Business Solution
BIZRULES helped design the Business Rules
architecture, methodology, and strategy for harvesting
and programming the 250,000 IRS business rules that
process all Individual Taxpayer tax returns.
Our
BIZRULES® VISION™ Business Rules Methodology is
being used as the foundation for the new IRS Business
Rule Harvesting Methodology.
Provided
expertise in Business Rules technology, design, and
industry best practices on the IBM CADE Team. Also
provided expertise in rule harvesting, rule discovery,
rule modeling, and rule authoring.
BIZRULES helped IBM design the rule engine portion
of IBM’s RFP Proposal, which won the bid for the IRS
PRIME CADE project.
Business Goals & Benefits
Enable
IRS Business Analysts and SMEs (non-programmers) to
author and modify IRS business rules without
reprogramming or recompiling.
Take the
tax agency from a paper-pushing system to an interactive
online program for taxpayers.
Deliver
tax refunds in as little as two days instead of five
weeks.
Enable
taxpayers to receive e-mail messages from the IRS about
their returns and track the status of refunds online. |
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Pretty Big Project |
Analysts say IRS
PRIME is one of the largest
civilian systems
development projects in
the world.
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Key
Role |
As IBM's Business Rules
SME, Rolando Hernandez
was named one of the Key
Personnel on IBM's
contract with IRS.
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