[1] The QGEA is a tailored EA which delivers a comprehensive set of processes, frameworks, policies, guidelines and tools to describe how the Queensland Government organises its resources to support service delivery.
The current state assessment of each department's business, information, application and technology component assets (called the ICT Baseline reporting activity) enables ICT portfolio investment analysis both at the department and whole-of-Government level.
Loosely based on the META Group Enterprise Architecture Service methodology the first version was published in May 2001.
At the same time the notion of enterprise architecture became enshrined in legislation in the form of the Financial Management Standard.
"QGEA" was adopted in preference to "GEA" to better reflect it as a Queensland Government developed framework.