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IT Investment Management

Information Technology Architecture Principles Guidance

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• Introduction
• Principles
  1. ITA will support Strategic Plan
  2. Enterprise-wide, standards-based COE
  3. Structured investment management process
  4. Standardized information technology management practices
  5. Reinvent work processes before system implementation
  6. Facilitate monitoring and measurement
  7. Competitive, performance-based acquisition strategies
  8. Use accepted industry and government standards
  9. Vendor independence
  10. Use of COTS and GOTS products
  11. Common network environment
  12. Consistent user interface
  13. Integrated applications
  14. Shared resources
  15. Data entry
  16. Object-oriented design
  17. Event-driven, real-time processing
  18. Flexible systems
  19. Applications will be portable and scalable
  20. Standards-compliant system components
  21. Cross-functional systems
  22. Common development
  23. Standardized information system tools
  24. Consistent security policies and practices
  25. Data is a Department asset
  26. Standardized set of data elements and definitions