Enterprise Architecture

Ensuring the safety and health of employees within the workplace

An OASIS specification that proposes a standard set of SOAP extensions that can be used when building secure Web services to implement message content integrity and confidentiality.

The management of an entity selling a good or service to the State.  Vendors include, but are not limited to, retail businesses, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, credit card companies.  A vendor may be an individual, corporation, non-profit organization, federal government, or federal agency, local government or local agency, another state or another state agency, a Washington state agency, or Indian nation.  For travel reimbursement purposes, a vendor may include an employee, a board member, or volunteer

Activities associated with planning, preparing, and monitoring of business related travel for an organization's employees

Training is activities designed to develop employees' job-related knowledge and skills for present job assignments as well as future career development goals.  The enterprise level administrative function is the maintenance of training records for state employees.

The process of submitting, approving, and adjusting an employee's work hours and planned/unplanned leave hours

Telework is the practice of working from home or other alternative locations closer to home through the use of technology which allows the employee to access normal work material (email, telephone, electronic documents, etc.). Telework may be scheduled or done on an ad hoc basis.

The specific staffing strategies designed to develop an internal pool for anticipated vacancies

Strategic workforce planning looks at system-wide issues and strategies to: Support the organization's strategic plan (e.g., reorganization and redeployment) Address external workforce factors that affect the entire business (e.g., succession planning for retirement bubbles, or staff reduction planning for budget cuts). Maintain organizational capacity (e.g., in-service training) Mitigate risk exposure (e.g., safety planning and Equal Employment Opportunity training)

Modular, swappable functions, separate from, yet connected to an application via well-defined interfaces to provide agility. Often referred to as 'services' they: Perform granular business functions such as "get customer address" or larger ones such as 'process payment.' Are loosely coupled to a new or existing application. Have capability to perform the steps, tasks and activities of one or more business processes. Can be combined to perform a set of functions - referred to as 'orchestration.'