The
Platform Architecture Policy
describes common, industry-wide, open-standards-based, interoperable devices facilitating the reliable and pervasive availability of,
access interfaces with, and processing for, the State's distributed information
processing environment. It defines various technologies required to deliver
individual agencies’ and the State’s business application systems and services
to its citizens. It allows the State and individual agencies to deploy and
support effective and efficient end-user access interfaces to business
application systems, as well as providing the processing capability to execute
business application systems, while increasing the use of e-government solutions
and maintaining traditional methods of service delivery to citizens.
The
Platform
Infrastructure Standard is vendor/manufacturer neutral by design, focusing instead
on relative versatility, capability to seamlessly interoperate with other
platform devices, operating systems, embedded security, adherence to open or
pervasive industry standards, provision for open system standard interfaces, and
utilization of open standard drivers. An
architectural assessment tool is used
to determine the versatility and interoperability of
platform devices
relative to the target technologies.
