EA Standards




Standards: An integral thread in our integration of strategy, business, and technology.

Product Standards	Technology Standards


Value of Standards BTR believes in the creation of and adherence to technical standards in order to maximize interoperability/compatibility, reduce costs, and maintain a more adaptable information technology infrastructure. Through the establishment and maintenance of standards our organization can: better interchange old products, systems, and technology with new better horizontally integrate mission systems to improve work flow and throughput for various lines of business minimize the need for customized software to overcome technical incompatibilities reduce costs associated with having to maintain and support multiple versions of products and differing technologies improve its technical ability to adapt to change as a result of architectural drivers
Our Enterprise Level Approach to Standards BTR believes in applying standards wherever the cost of not employing standards is greater than the cost of doing so. With this general philosophy in mind, our organization establishes and maintains standards for products and certain forms of technologies that are considered mission critical, are considered key to our core business activities, or where there are clear economy of scale benefits. To the greatest degree possible, we strive to maintain stability in our technology standards while allowing modest flexibility in the products that employ these standards.
Our Product Standards As an element of our enterprise architecture program, BTR documents its “as is” and “to be” product standards using the Technical Reference Model (TRM) developed by the Federal Enterprise Architecture PMO. The TRM categorically organizes various forms of technology into a component-oriented framework. Using the TRM to document our product standards has the additional benefit of aiding in the annual reporting of our IT-53 information systems to the Office of Management and Budget via the Exhibit 300. Click on the enterprise architecture cube associated with each of the TRM service areas to obtain a detailed view of the products standards employed throughout our architecture.
Service Access and Delivery	Service Platform and Infrastructure
Component Framework	Service Interface and Integration
Our Technology Standards As another element of our enterprise architecture program, BTR documents its “as is” and “to be” technology standards using a simple matrix. This artifact captures those technology standards that we believe are critical to the health, maintenance, and migration of our information technology infrastructure in support of our current and future mission needs. Click the enterprise architecture cube below for a detailed view of the technology standards employed throughout our architecture. Technology Standards

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