Technology Reference

Model Framework –
High Level Overview

Version: 1.1

Date: 12/17/2018

For additional information, please contact:

Melody Riley Ralphs, [email protected]

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Purpose
The Oregon Technology Reference Model (TRM) Framework represents various technologies that
support business and technology capabilities. There are two views of the TRM: business view and
technical view. The TRM is a general tool for mapping technologies to business and technical
capabilities; it is maintained by OSCIO Enterprise Alignment program to support a variety of efforts such
as “Basecamp” for Strategic IT Sourcing, Architectural Assessments for IT projects, Enterprise
Technology Standards and Future State Reference Architectures.

Background
The State of Oregon is focused on transitioning from its current state with legacy, outdated and
fragmented technology environment to one that is more current with industry, more agile to support
business needs on a timely basis, and supports greater interoperability to achieve more seamless,
responsive services. As this transition happens, it is important that agencies begin thinking about their
needs in the context of “capabilities” rather than solely unique program-specific, customized
functionality. This focus on capabilities will:

 Assist organizations to better understand and effectively integrate with the total enterprise
ability to achieve strategic and current operational objectives; and

 Develop and provide solutions that focus on a set of functionalities and activities in the
enterprise's strategic and current operational contexts.

To promote a consistent view of capabilities, the OSCIO is leveraging the Federal Enterprise Architecture
(FEA) v2 Framework as the starting point to help define Oregon’s business, application and
infrastructure framework. The primary areas of FEA V2 that were leveraged and defined as follows:

 Business Reference Model (BRM) describes an organization through a taxonomy of common

mission and support service areas instead of through a stove-piped organizational view, thereby
promoting intra- and inter-agency collaboration.

 Application Reference Model (ARM) categorizes the system- and application-related standards
and technologies that support the delivery of service capabilities, allowing agencies to share and
reuse common solutions and benefit from economies of scale.

 Infrastructure Reference Model (IRM) categorizes the network/cloud related standards and
technologies to support and enable the delivery of voice, data, video, and mobile service
components and capabilities.

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Oregon Technology Reference Model - Business View
This view represents the major groupings of technical goods, products or services that are directly tied to
end-user or business functions.

Major business capability domains are:

 End-user Devices: A personal computer (desktop or laptop), consumer device (e.g. smart phone
or tablet) or removable storage media that can store information.
 End-user Applications: General business productivity and visualization software used by standard
end-users.
 Business Process/Systems Portfolio: Systems are discrete sets of information resources organized
for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of
information in support of a specific business process.
 Applications: Application components are self-contained software that can be aggregated or
configured to support (or contribute to achieving) many different business objectives.

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Oregon Technology Reference Model – Technical View
This view represents the major groupings of technical goods, products or services that provide underlying
support to business solutions and tools.

Major technical capability domains are:

 Integration/Middleware: Middleware is computer software that provides services to software
applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software
glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement communication and
input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose of their application.
 Data Management: Application components are self-contained software that can be aggregated
or configured to support (or contribute to achieving) data and information management business
needs.
 Platform Services: The Platform Domain includes a hardware architecture and a software
framework, where the combination allows software, particularly application software, to run.
Network: The Network section of the IRM addresses how a particular IT asset accessed and used
within the enterprise.
 Information Security: Application components are self-contained software that can be aggregated
or configured to support (or contribute to achieving) information security management &
controls.
 IT Systems Management: Tools used by IT to support and maintain the technical services and
service delivery.
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 Development & Testing Tools: Includes tools related to all areas of software development
including programming editors, frameworks, systems development methodologies, software
testing, and software configuration management.

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Appendix A: Technology Reference Model (TRM) Definitions
Most definitions for the categories within the Oregon TRM are derived from the Federal Enterprise
Architecture (FEA) v2.
Domain Area Category Definition

End-user Laptops, PC, Major category that represents common

Devices Tablets, consumer-based technology devices.
Printers
Phones Major category of devices and services related to
telephony and telecommunications.
Smart Phones A cellular phone that performs many of the
functions of a computer, typically having a
touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an
operating system capable of running downloaded
applications.
Business Acquisition Major category of business processes which
Process/ Management represent functions such as invoice tracking &
Systems approval (manages inflow & outflow of “products”,
Portfolio as well as data about the level of “products” on
hand), procurement (used in acquisition of goods
or services and management of the contracts), and
vendor management (used to build a list of vendors
or measure satisfaction of relationships).
Customer Major category of business processes which
Service represent functions such as call center/help desk
(supports the management of service center to
respond to government and contract employees’
technical and/or administrative questions), and/or
issue tracking (supports activities associated with
providing an agency’s customers with information
regarding the agency’s service offerings and
managing the interactions and relationships with
those customers).
Financial Major category of business processes which
Management represent functions such as accounts payable,
accounts receivable, budget planning & execution,
financial audit, general ledger, payroll and travel.
Property & Major category of business processes which
Asset represent functions such as facilities management,
Management inventory management, logistics & transportation,
media & facilities reservations, and warehouse
management.
Workforce Major category of business processes which

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 Management represent functions such as resource planning &
allocation, skills management, and team &
organizational management.
Human Major category of business processes which
Resource represent functions such as awards, benefits,
Management education/training, employee personnel records,
staff acquisition, retirement, and time &
attendance.
Legal E-discovery Software that supports the analysis of electronically
stored information and its exchange, including
digital forensics analysis.
Application Analytics, Business Software to support identifying, extracting, and
Components Reporting & Intelligence & analyzing business data, such as performance and
Statistics Analytics cost metrics to support better business decision-
making.
Reporting Software tools that support the creation and
display of individually designed and structured
reports with self-service access to meaningful data.
Portfolio Software that provides the set of capabilities to
Management support the administration of a group of
investments held by an organization.
Survey Data Software that supports methods to collect
Collection information from a sample of individuals in a
systematic way for empirical research in social
sciences, marketing and official statistics.
Online Software that supports a process to swiftly answer
Analytical multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries and
Processing enable users to interactively analyze
multidimensional data from multiple perspectives.
An OLAP consists of three basic analytical
operations: consolidation, drill-down, and slicing
and dicing.
Document & Document Software that supports the document scanning and
Content Imaging & OCR the interpretation of images into text.
Management
Document On line repository of documents, letters, speeches,
Library web sites, books, or articles to be shared.
Forms Software that supports the creation, modification,
Management and usage of physical or electronic documents used
to capture information within the business cycle.
Records Software that supports the management and
Management stewardship of a type of information by the federal
government in order to facilitate communication
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 and information archival.
Web Content Software that provides content authoring, content
Management review and approval, tagging and aggregation,
content publishing and delivery, and syndication
management.
Document Software used to track, store and retrieve
Management electronic documents and/or images of paper
System documents. It is usually capable of keeping track of
the different versions created by different users
(history tracking).
Geospatial Geospatial Data Software that supports the collection or
Information Collection management of geospatial information.
Geospatial Data Supports the application of statistical analysis and
Analysis other informational techniques to geographically
based data.
Cartography Software that supports the creation of maps.
Imagery Software that supports the collection of
information via satellite and aerial photography.
Productivity Drawing Software used to create or edit a graphical object.
Presentation Software used to display information, normally in
the form of a slide show.
Spreadsheet Software used to create, update and/or read a two-
dimensional matrix of rows and columns.
Word Software used for the composition, editing,
Processing formatting and/or possibly printing of print
material.
Knowledge & Data Mining Software that provides for the efficient discovery of
Discovery non-obvious, valuable patterns and relationships
Management within a large collection of data.
Information Software that provides access to data and
Retrieval information for use by an organization and its
stakeholders.
Modeling Software to develop descriptions that adequately
explain relevant data for the purpose of prediction,
pattern detection, exploration or general
organization of data.
Knowledge Software that facilitates collection of data and
Capture information.
Knowledge Software that supports the transfer of knowledge
Distribution & to the end customer.
Delivery
Process Business Software that allows organizations to abstract
Automation & Process business process from technology infrastructure
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Management Management and support the managerial approach through
enabling technology, bridging organizational and
technology silos. Business Process Management
applications and software include items such as:
Process Engine, Business Analytics, Content
Management, and Collaboration Tools.
Business Rule Software used to define, deploy, execute, monitor
Management and maintain the variety and complexity of decision
logic that is used by operational systems within an
organization or enterprise. This logic, also referred
to as business rules, includes policies,
requirements, and conditional statements that are
used to determine the tactical actions that take
place in applications and systems.
Case Software that manages the life cycle of a particular
Management claim or investigation within an organization to
include creating, routing, tracing, assignment and
closing of a case as well as collaboration among
case handlers
Governance & Software the supports decisions, actions, business
Policy rules and other matters that govern an
Management organization
Process Software that monitors the activities within the
Tracking business cycle
Change Software that controls the process for updates or
Management modifications to the existing documents, software
or business processes of an organization.
Project Software that provides capabilities for cost
Management estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control
and budget management, resource allocation,
collaboration, communication, quality management
and documentation or administration systems,
which are used to deal with the complexity of large
projects.
Risk Software that allows planners to explicitly address
Management uncertainty by identifying and generating metrics,
setting parameters, prioritizing, and developing
mitigations, and tracking risk.
Quality Software that ensures an organization or product is
Management consistent based on quality planning, quality
control, quality assurance and quality
improvement.
Unified Email Software that supports the transmission of memos

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Communications and messages over a network.
& Collaboration
Calendaring Software that provides users with an electronic
version of a calendar, an appointment book,
address book, and/or contact list.
Instant Software that supports text, voice and/or video
Messaging communications between two or more users.
Social Software Software that supports the capturing, storing and
presentation of communication, usually written but
may include audio and video as well. Interactive
tools handle mediated interactions between a pair
or group of users. They focus on establishing and
maintaining a connection among users, facilitating
the mechanics of conversation and talk.
Event/News Software that provides users with frequently
Management updated content to which they subscribe.
Syndication A family of web feed formats used to publish
Management frequently updated works, such as blog entries,
(RSS Feeds) news headlines, audio, and video, in a standardized
format.
Visualization Computer Software that supports the use of computer
Aided Design technology for the process of design and design-
(CAD) documentation and includes software or
environments which provide the user with input-
tools for the purpose of streamlining design
processes; drafting, documentation, and
manufacturing processes.
Data Mapping Software that supports the process of creating data
element mappings between two distinct data
models. Data mapping is used as a first step for a
wide variety of data integration tasks.
Graphics Software that enables a person to manipulate
static, animated or video visual images on a
computer.
Idea Mapping Software that is used to create diagrams of
relationships between concepts, ideas or other
pieces of information.
Multimedia Software to manage, develop and manipulate
content from a combination of different content
forms such as text, audio, still images, animation,
video, or interactivity.
Photographic Software that supports the capture, storage, and
manipulation of photographic images.
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Integration/ Enterprise Software used for designing and implementing the
Middleware Service Bus interaction and communication between mutually
interacting software applications in Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Messaging Software that enables passing of information
Software message between different systems and IT assets
using different communications technologies.
Service Software that enables various services available in
Description or SOA. It is designed to be interrogated by Simple
Interface Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages and to
provide access to Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) documents describing the
protocol bindings and message formats required to
interact with the web services listed in its directory.
Data Extraction, Software that supports the extraction of data from
Management Transformation a database, the manipulation and change of data to
& Loading (ETL) a different format and the population of another
database with the data.
Data Backup & Software that creates copies of data which may be
Recovery used to restore the original after a data loss event
or to restore and stabilize data sets to a consistent,
desired state.
Data Software services that enable elements of
Integration & distributed business applications to interoperate
Exchange and the software development necessary to
facilitate such integration. These elements can
share function, content, and communications
across heterogeneous computing environments.
Data Quality Software to ensure that data are fit for their
Management intended uses in operations, decision making and
planning and to ensure internal consistency of the
data.
Data Database used for reporting and analysis, where
Warehouse & the data stored in the warehouse is uploaded from
Data Mart the transactional systems.
Directory Software that supports the listing of employees and
Services their whereabouts.
Master Data Software that supports a set of processes and tools
Management that consistently define and manage the non-
transactional data entities of an organization, which
may include reference data. It has the objective of
providing processes for collecting, aggregating,
matching, consolidating, quality-assuring and

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 distributing such data throughout an organization
to ensure consistency and control in the ongoing
maintenance and application use of this
information.
Meta Data Software that supports the maintenance and
Management administration of data that describes data.
Platform Data Storage Enterprise Enterprise data storage services provide highly-
Services available, secure, and reliable disk storage for use
by system operating systems, applications,
application data, and for user files. This service is
available to physical and virtual systems.
Local Attached Local Storage is considered dedicated storage:
Storage on individual equipment (e.g. solid state
drive, external storage array) or on a disk accessible
by a single host. Local attached (non SAN) storage
is exclusively for the Windows and Linux server
environments. This service is mostly consumed in
field / remote offices.
Mainframe Mainframe storage is available through:
1. Disk – fully redundant, fastest recovery.
2. Tape – fully redundant, Virtual Tape Storage
(VTS).
Network Use of network attached storage (NAS) to store
Attached data, which is infrequently accessed or changed, to
provide a lower cost storage solution. NAS Services
offer centralized storage of data that provides
faster deployment, easier maintenance, and fewer
staff requirements for support. The device is
connected to the network, access to the device is
controlled by network and firewall configurations.
Deduplication is not a capability of this service. No
security scanning is offered, resulting in additional
customer requirements to use this as a storage
solution. The NAS Services are used to support ETS
backup services only.
Operating Mainframe A mainframe or supercomputer operating system
System is, in simplest terms, a collection of programs that
manage a computer system's internal workings - its
memory, processors, devices, and file system.
Mainframe operating systems are tailored to meet
the substantially different architectures and
purposes of mainframes as high-volume
transaction processing devices, or the purposes of

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 supercomputers as high-volume algorithmic
processors.
Midrange A midrange computer operating system is, in
simplest terms, a collection of programs that
manage a computer system's internal workings - its
memory, processors, devices, and file system.
Midrange computers are almost universally known
as servers to recognize that they often "serve"
applications to end users at "client" computers,
that they use a client/server computing model.
Distributed Operating systems that support the distributed
server environment.
Hardware Mainframe A Mainframe is a high-performance computer used
for large-scale computing purposes that require
greater availability and security. It often serves
many connected terminals and is usually used by
large complex organizations.
Midrange Midrange computers encompass a very broad
range and reside in capacity between high-end PCs
and mainframes. Formerly called "minicomputers”,
which were hosts to dumb terminals connected
over dedicated cables, most midrange computers
today function as servers in a network.
Distributed Distributed computing is a field of computer
science that studies distributed systems. A
distributed system is a software system in which
components located on networked computers
communicate and coordinate their actions by
passing messages. The components interact with
each other in order to achieve a common goal.
Communication Communications Hardware refers broadly to
Hardware hardware intended primarily to create a link to the
network from the user or another computational
device.
Mobile As with other operating systems, a mobile
computing device Operating System (OS) is a
computer program, implemented in either
software or firmware, which acts as an
intermediary between users of a computer and the
computer hardware. The purpose of an OS is to
provide an environment in which a user can
execute applications.
Virtualization In computing, virtualization is the creation of a

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 virtual (rather than actual) version of something,
such as a hardware platform, Operating System
(OS), storage device, or network resources. This
section of the IRM categorizes those mechanisms
to create virtual platforms.
Desktop IT support & maintenance for general end-user
Services technologies (hardware and/or software).
Platform as a A category of cloud computing services that
Service provides a platform allowing customers to develop,
run, and manage web applications without the
complexity of building and maintaining the
infrastructure typically associated with developing
and launching an app.
Infrastructure A cloud computing form that provides computing
as a Service resources over the Internet. Cloud IaaS providers
host infrastructure components for users.
Network Data & Video A data network type is an electronic
Services communications process that allows for the orderly
transmission and receptive of data, such as letters,
spreadsheets, and other types of documents. What
sets the data network apart from other forms of
communication, such as an audio network, is that
the data network is configured to transmit data
only. This is in contrast to the audio or voice
network, which is often employed for both voice
communications and the transmission of data such
as a facsimile transmission.
Video networks can be dedicated links devoted to
video for large video conferencing installations. As
with Voice traffic, Video is often a type of traffic
carried on data networks using some form of
packet-switching technology. Video traffic is
distinct from Data traffic in the delivery
requirements (it needs to arrive nearly
synchronously and be assembled in order without
drop-outs) and bandwidth usage (which is very
high).
Voice Services Voice networks are sometimes dedicated, as in the
& original public switched telephone network (PSTN),
Infrastructure but have changed to be a type of traffic carried on
data networks using some form of packet-switching
technology. Voice traffic is distinct from Data traffic
in the delivery requirements (it needs to arrive

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 nearly synchronously and be assembled in order
without drop-outs) and bandwidth usage (which is
high).
Infrastructure For the purposes of the IRM, Infrastructure, as used
here, is a broad term covering the various forms of
basic hardware and software that comprise the
foundation of a network.
Radio Radio networks are transmitted through free space
Infrastructure by radio waves. There are two types of radio
networks currently in use around the world: the
one-to-many broadcast network commonly used
for public information and mass media
entertainment; and the two-way type used more
commonly for public safety and public services such
as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery services. Many
of the same components and much of the same
basic technology applies to both.
VOIP Internet telephony refers to communications
services — voice, fax, SMS, and/or voice-messaging
applications — that are transported via the
Internet, rather than the Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN). The steps involved in
originating a VoIP telephone call are signaling and
media channel setup, digitization of the analog
voice signal, encoding, packetization, and
transmission as Internet Protocol (IP) packets over
a packet-switched network. On the receiving side,
similar steps (usually in the reverse order) such as
reception of the IP packets, decoding of the
packets and digital-to-analog conversion reproduce
the original voice stream.
Radio over IP Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) is similar to
VoIP, but augments two-way radio communications
rather than telephone calls. From the system point
of view, it is essentially VoIP with PTT (Push To
Talk). To the user it can be implemented like any
other radio network. With RoIP, at least one node
of a network is a radio (or a radio with an IP
interface device) connected via IP to other nodes in
the radio network. The other nodes can be two-
way radios, but could also be dispatch consoles
either traditional (hardware) or modern (software
on a PC), POTS telephones, softphone applications

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 running on a computer such as a Skype phone,
PDA, smartphone, or some other communications
device accessible over IP. RoIP can be deployed
over private networks as well as the public Internet.
Web & Video Web conferencing refers to a service that allows
Conferencing conferencing events to be shared with remote
locations. In general the service is made possible by
Internet technologies, particularly on TCP/IP
connections. The service allows real-time point-to-
point communications as well as multicast
communications from one sender to many
receivers. It offers information of text-based
messages, voice and video chat to be shared
simultaneously, across geographically dispersed
locations. Applications for web conferencing
include meetings, training events, lectures, or short
presentations from any computer.
Videoconferencing is the conduct of a
videoconference (also known as a video conference
or video teleconference) by a set of
telecommunication technologies which allow two
or more locations to communicate by simultaneous
two-way video and audio transmissions. It has also
been called 'visual collaboration' and is a type of
groupware.
Mobile Device Mobile Device Networking covers the sets of
Networking standards commonly used for mobile devices and
mobile telecommunication services and networks
that comply with specifications by the International
Telecommunication Union. Such standards find
applications in wireless voice telephony, mobile
Internet access, fixed wireless Internet access,
video calls and mobile TV, among others.
Information Cyber Security Major category of information security services to
Security Management protect networks, computers, programs and data
from attack, damage or unauthorized access.
Services may include: threat and vulnerability
management, continuous monitoring, data
integrity and privacy management, identification &
authorization, cryptography, incident response,
audit trail capture & analysis, and certification &
accreditation.
Audit Trail & Software that supports the set of capabilities to

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Capture support the identification and monitoring of
activities within an application, system, or network.
Identity Software that identifies individuals in a system and
Management controls access to the resources in that system by
placing restrictions on the established identities of
the individuals.
Incident Software that supports the set of capabilities to
Management provide active response and remediation to a
security incident that has allowed unauthorized
access to a government information system.
Intrusion Hardware or software products that gather and
Detection analyze information from various areas within a
computer or a network to identify possible security
breaches, which include both intrusions (attacks
from outside the organizations) and misuse (attacks
from within the organizations.)
Fault Software that detects, isolates, and corrects
Management malfunctions in a telecommunications network and
compensates for environmental changes. This
includes maintaining and examining error logs,
accepting and acting on error detection
notifications, tracing and identifying faults, carrying
out sequences of diagnostics tests, correcting
faults, reporting error conditions, and localizing and
tracing faults by examining and manipulating
database information.
Authentication Software that supports obtaining information
& Authorization about parties attempting to log on to a system or
application for security purposes and the validation
of those users.
Virus Software used to prevent, detect, and remove self-
Protection replicating programs that run and spread by
modifying other programs or files.
Encryption Software to convert plaintext to ciphertext through
the use of a cryptographic algorithm.
Digital Software to use and manage electronic signatures
Signature to support.
Security Testing Tools that support the process of securing a system
& Hardening by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is
larger when a system performs more functions; in
principle a single-function system is more secure
than a multipurpose one. Reducing available ways
of attack typically includes changing default

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 passwords, the removal of unnecessary software,
unnecessary usernames or logins, and the disabling
or removal of unnecessary services.
IT Systems IT Service This is the set of tools that supports the
Management Management maintenance and continuous improvement of the
IT environment with a focus on customer needs
and IT services. Functions support workflow and
linking between incident, change, problem, and
service request records with each other and with
records of configuration items.
License Software that supports enterprise license
Management management. It supports the purchase, upgrade
and tracking of legal usage contracts for system
software and applications, written computer
programs, and components.
Mobility Software that supports the administration of
Management mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet
computers, laptops and desktop computers.
Software Software that supports the process of delivering
Distribution software to the end user.
Monitoring Software that continuously records performance,
Tools capacity use, throughput of computer hardware or
software and provides notification about deviations
from normal.
System Tools that monitor system (server & network)
Monitoring performance and events.
Application Tools that monitor application performance and
Monitoring events.
Development Requirement Software used to document, analyze, trace,
& Testing Management prioritize and agree on requirements for an
Tools initiative and communicate with the relevant
stakeholders.
App A programming tools or software development
Development tools that software developers use to create,
Tools debug, maintain, or otherwise support other
programs and applications.
Testing Software that supports testing throughout the
various testing levels, testing types and testing
process/methodologies. Tools also collects or
generate various testing artifacts including but not
limited to traceability matrix, test cases and test
scripts.
Software Software that controls the hardware and software
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Configuration environments, as well as documents of an
Management organization.

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