CWDS Glossary

The process of extracting essential intellectual business logic in the form of business rules from packaged or legacy software applications and stating them in natural or formal language.

A Branch of OSI that procures and oversees all aspects of OSI’s physical environments. This includes building leasing, maintenance, emergency response to building problems, physical security issues, conference room allocation and configuration, employee furniture and non-IT equipment needs, including building enhancements such as electrical upgrades, HVAC, building reconfiguration, and overseeing the moving of employees. Creates and replaces physical badges for employees and is the authoritative decision-making unit for the multiple OSI building locations.

The concept of purchasing a pre-built, off-the-shelf solution, which is delivered through the web and custom build of additional functionality in support of specific business requirements not addressed in the pre-built solution.

The CalFresh Program, federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods at many markets and food stores.

CWS-CARES is the new system being developed for the State of California to comply with Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) requirements. CWS-CARES will be a modern, web-based computing infrastructure that is flexible, scalable and based on industry enterprise architecture framework concepts. CWS-CARES will consolidate functionalities that are in various systems into a single system and include multiple interfaces with other applications, thus providing CWS workers with critical case information more efficiently.

Current functionality available in production: Identity Management (IDAM), Snapshot (SS), Facility Search (FS), and Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment (CANS) Tool. The functionality of CARES-Live will be incorporated into CWS-CARES.

The California Department of Education is an agency within the Government of California that oversees public education. The department oversees funding and testing, and holds local educational agencies accountable for student achievement. Its stated mission is to provide leadership, assistance, oversight, and resources so that every Californian has access to a good education.

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is a state-supervised, county-administered system that provides oversight of programs that affect nearly 3 millions of California’s most vulnerable residents—foster children and youth, children and families receiving aid through the California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), adults and elderly in licensed community care facilities and aged, blind and disabled recipients requiring in-home supportive services or Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI-SSP) assistance. The department is 1 of 16 under the umbrella of the Health and Human Services Agency. It has around 4,200 employees located in 51 offices throughout the state, and 58 county welfare departments, offices and community-based organizations.

Establishes, maintains, and oversees the state’s IT strategic plan, policies, standards, procedures and enterprise architecture. Additionally, the Department approves and oversees state IT projects throughout their lifecycle (e.g., planning, budgeting, procurement and execution) and ensures the security of state information assets.

Further, as the home of the State Data Center, CDT provides IT infrastructure services to its customers, for their public facing and mission critical systems, and offers a myriad of cloud and on-premise services. The Department also employs a strategic focus on innovation, enterprise, and workforce development solutions to expand the state’s operational capacity and provide the agility and scalability necessary to keep pace with the ever-changing demands of doing business.

The California Department of Technology is committed to partnering with state, local government and educational entities to deliver digital services, develop innovative and responsive solutions for business needs, and provide quality assurance for state government Information Technology (IT) projects and services.

An enterprise architecture framework designed to guide the development and use of comparable enterprise architectures within and across state agencies so that the resulting enterprise architecture deliverables enable mission success with a lower total cost of ownership, faster time to delivery, and reduced duplication.