U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

E-Gov
EHRI: Overview

One of the 24 e-Government initiatives designed to support the President's Management Agenda (PMA); OPM's Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI) will support human resources management across the Federal Government at all levels from front-line employee to senior management. When fully implemented, EHRI will replace the current Official Personnel Folder (OPF) with an electronic employee record for all Executive Branch employees, resulting in a comprehensive electronic personnel data repository covering the entire life cycle of Federal employment.

In addition to streamlining personnel management actions, EHRI will provide HR managers and specialists with powerful workforce analytic and planning capabilities. EHRI users will be able to query workforce data from a variety of perspectives. Users can determine statistical counts, averages, correlation, etc., and conduct workforce planning under a variety of scenarios. Trends can be determined for retirements, promotions, reassignments, and other significant personnel actions. Together, these analytical tools will enable a level of strategic human capital planning that has, up to now, been difficult if not impossible to conduct.

To support expanded electronic government, a fully implemented EHRI solution will:

• Provide Federal Executive Branch employees with direct access to their employment folders on-line;
• Develop a system for the strategic management of human capital through a repository for Federal HR data, standardization of that data, and a suite of analytical tools;
• Use an agency partnership model in the development of the EHRI systems. Realize efficiencies and eliminate stovepipe systems by creating a centralized record and hosting environment, eliminating paper folders, and reducing the time for record transfer from weeks and months to near real-time.
• Save the Federal Government almost $740 million over a 10 year period.