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Missouri, Arizona Team Up to Create Shareable Cloud-Based Portal Architecture

Government Technology: In a teaming that sounds vaguely reminiscent of the country's longtime traditional motto "E Pluribus Unum," or "One from Many," officials in two states are collaborating on cloud-based code to build online portals.

The more immediate object is a state portal to help Missouri local and municipal governments better understand and comply with state and federal environmental laws, rules and regulations.

But by partnering, IT and environmental officials in Missouri and Arizona hope to create architecture other states can use as well. That's a guiding principle of federal E-Enterprise, which funded the project with a grant: "build once, deploy many."

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