DPW: Technical Architecture Standards
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Technical Architecture Standards 
 
 
Information technology architecture is an IT practice to align DPW’s information resources to enable the department to reach its goals and accomplish its mission.  This is done through business architectures, system architectures, and technical architectures.  It has been very useful in DPW in process alignment for new systems, in the IT capital planning and acquisition process.  These architectures provided by DPW/OITS are being used in various operations in the department (Safety for Solid Waste Collections, Abandoned Vehicle Operations, SWEEP, Recycling, OITS), and by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer in city-wide IT capital planning.
 
In FY2007 all new IT investments will have accompanying enterprise architectures (EA) for PIFs, including business, information, application, and network architectures.      Below are the department's high-level enterprise architectures:

  Read the technical architecture standards* for the Department of Public Works (DPW).

  Solid Waste Management Administration trash disposal Business Process Flow Diagram (Inbound)

  Solid Waste Management Administration trash disposal Business Process Flow Diagram (Outbound)

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