In accordance with §24-­‐37.5-­‐105(9), the State of Colorado Chief Technology Officer (CTO) adopts the following standard to guide the procurement and use of Mobile Devices for use in all applicable State of Colorado Applications. This Standard shall be titled “MobileDevices-­‐2012v1”.

In accordance with §24-37.5-105(9), the office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has adopted a Web Services standard to guide the creation and utilization of Web Services for use in all applicable State Applications. This Standard shall be titled “Web Services-2012v1”.

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,

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.

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