Strategic Plan (PDF) - Cioarchives.ca.gov - State of California

Goals, Objectives, and ActionsGOAL 4Lower Costs and Improve the Security,Reliability and Performance of the State’sIT Infrastructure.The State will develop an IT and telecommunications infrastructure that is secure,reliable and meets high performance standards by standardizing its infrastructurearound an Enterprise Architecture and consolidating the management of thatinfrastructure to support and enable a more customer-focused government.The State must use its limited technology dollars wisely. Enterprise Architecture is thedescription of the technical framework that a business or enterprise uses to conductits business over computing and telephone networks. The State of California needs anEnterprise Architecture (EA) to assist departments in their efforts to create consistent,secure, and interoperable information technology systems. The architecture will be anintegral part of the governance process for information technology. The EA team willuse the IT mission and the State’s key business drivers in order to build an architecturethat enhances information sharing, guides technology standards, reduces applicationdevelopment costs and complexities, and better serves the needs of departments andthe people of California.Through the use of Enterprise Architecture, infrastructure consolidation andenterprise-wide procurements, as well as the adoption of enterprise-wide standards,departments will be able to lower costs, and improve reliability and performance ofthe IT and telecommunications infrastructure.Objective 1Adopt a Statewide Enterprise ArchitecturePursuant to the California Enterprise Architecture Framework, the State will adopt astatewide Enterprise Architecture to support business-driven, service-oriented IT solutionsthat facilitate the implementation of statewide technology standards in support ofenterprise data sharing and statewide systems interoperability.The State will adopt and implement the California Enterprise Architecture as afoundation to support the business driven implementation of information technologyacross the enterprise. Enterprise Architecture provides the foundation for which severalother goals of the IT Strategic Plan may be delivered.23