Enterprise Architecture

Support the balance and allocation of memory, usage, disk space and performance on computers and their applications.

System and Network Monitoring supports all activities related to the realtime monitoring of systems and networks for optimal performance.

For the purpose of go live readiness, supporting organizations include the agency(s) and any vendor(s) who are involved in operations and support of the ongoing system/investment. Processes include any unique to the time immediately after go-live as well as those on-going processes required to effectively operate and maintain the system/investment once it is implemented into production.

Shared, common infrastructure for lifecycle management such as a services registry, policies, business analytics; routing/addressing, quality of service, communication; Development Tools for security, management, and adapters.

A protocol for implementing Web Services. SOAP features guidelines that allow communication via the Internet between two programs, even if they run on different platforms, use different technologies and are written in different programming languages.

A service-oriented architecture design principle for creating services that can be used for business purposes beyond those initially specified in requirements. Reusable services are designed so their solution logic is independent of any particular business process or technology.

Entities (systems, people, and organizations) that offer capabilities and act as service providers. An authoritative/trusted organization that offers an automated IT Service to a Service Consumer by means of one of its Provided Service Interfaces.

The coordination and arrangement of multiple services exposed as a single aggregate service. Developers utilize service orchestration to support the automation of business processes by loosely coupling services across different applications and enterprises and creating "second-generation," composite applications. In other words, service orchestration is the combination of service interactions to create higher-level business services.

Computer application readable description of capabilities, requirements, general characteristics, abstract message operations, concrete network protocols, endpoint addresses, and structure and content of messages received by and sent by the service.

A requestor that consumes or uses an automated IT Service provided by a Service Provider. Entities (systems, people, and organizations) that needs to make use of services offered by providers.