This document lays out the principles and decision criteria for employing “cloud first” services in specific instances and differentiates the different service and delivery models that may be appropriate for different application scenarios. Given the state of the industry, Colorado’s IT infrastructure and footprint, and the opportunities that are available, Colorado is proceeding with a “cloud first” policy, mirroring the Federal government’s cloud policy. To that end, Colorado is making a deliberate and explicit policy to “cloud first” services. The State will proceed with the presumption that new services, applications and major revisions to existing applications will be supported in a cloud based environment first, unless there are substantive reasons why they should be hosted on the State’s private infrastructure.

This strategic plan, known as Secure Colorado, is a three-year initiative focused on making strategic decisions and investments to protect the data Coloradans have entrusted to state government. Secure Colorado outlines the strategic goals and initiatives of the Colorado Information Security Program to safeguard the State’s information assets and assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information vital to achieve the State of Colorado’s mission.

The Office of Information Technology has six strategic priorities. We envision that these priorities will be in place for the long-term. What will change from year to year are the initiatives that we choose to pursue for each priority. The playbook describes OIT's plans for each of the priorities in FY14 and beyond as well as what we plan to specifically achieve this fiscal year.

The Department’s 2013-2014 Strategic Plan continues to move us forward toward our vision of “building a safer Colorado for today and tomorrow”. Our new objectives focus on improving the delivery of quality mental health programs, implementing the new federal legislation for the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and applying the Lean process improvement system to achieve our strategic initiatives.

The Mobile First Strategy will align State of Colorado Office of Information Technology (OIT) resources, designs, and applications around mobile platforms first, web browsers and other technology platforms secondly.

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The January 2013 publishing of a Strategic Operational Plan is the first effort at
operational planning made by the Department of Natural Resources.

The Department hopes to achieve several goals with the new format of the strategic plan, including:

(1) General Information
(2) More Performance Measures
(3) Different Types of Performance Measures
(4) Five Years of Performance Reporting
(5) Customer Focus
(6) SMART Act Audit

The Department of Natural Resources views the strategic planning process as iterative. Each year, the Department hopes to build on the experiences, legislative suggestions, employee and employee organization recommendations, and public input (good and bad) to help guide its strategic planning going forward. In this regard, the Department would very much appreciate hearing from legislators,
interested parties, and the general public about what they found helpful in the Strategic Operational Plan as well as what is missing from the Plan.

The Compass: Enterprise Architecture 2011-2014 Technology Roadmap is a living document that will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and updated as necessary. The goal of a living document is to obtain feedback from OIT agency partners and other functional area teams within the organization in an ongoing and collaborative way.

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the author primary author of The Compass: Enterprise Architecture 2011-2014 Technology Roadmap. The CTO Enterprise Architecture (EA) Team will support the CTO in making quarterly updates,

In accordance with §24-37.5-105(9), the office of the State of Colorado Chief Technology Officer adopts the following standard to guide browser usage within the State’s Enterprise Applications. This standard shall be defined as "Web Browsers 2012v1".

The State of Colorado office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) adopts the this standard to guide the creation and utilization of Web Services for use in all applicable State Applications. This standard defines acceptable mobile application platforms for application development