Applications of information technology

Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce describes how to support e-Commerce solutions using cloud computing. The reference architecture contains a detailed view of the components, subcomponents and relationships for a cloud-based e-Commerce solution.
 
This whitepaper describes the flows and relationships between business capabilities and architectural components for e-Commerce applications that use cloud computing infrastructure, platforms and/or services. The elements of the architecture are used to instantiate an e-Commerce system using private, public, or hybrid cloud deployment models. Applications comprising the core components may be delivered as a service, from on-premises, or hosted.
 
A runtime scenario is outlined with deployment

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration describes how to leverage social collaboration tools to harness ideas, exchange information, and increase the speed of innovation across the business.
 
This cloud reference architecture was written for enterprise Information Technology (IT) and business decision makers to assist in understanding the technical capabilities and integration requirements necessary to deliver Enterprise Social Collaboration solutions. It is a vendor-neutral and best practices approach to describe the flows and relationships between business capabilities, functional areas, and architectural components delivered as a cloud solution.
 
This whitepaper discusses how social collaboration solutions can be applied to different industries and aligned with key business initiatives.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration introduces a core reference architecture and key concepts for hybrid integration in the enterprise.
 
IT environments are now fundamentally hybrid in nature – devices, systems, and people are spread across the globe, and at the same time virtualized. Achieving integration across this ever-changing environment is a significant challenge. This paper explores common architecture patterns seen in enterprises tackling this issue.
 
Hybrid integration can be looked at from many perspectives including application, data, and infrastructure. This whitepaper positions hybrid integration from an application perspective, and presents the reference architecture as a seamless integration from cloud to on-premises for events, APIs, and data.

Cloud Customer Architecture for Hybrid Integration introduces a core reference architecture and key concepts for hybrid integration in the enterprise.
 
IT environments are now fundamentally hybrid in nature – devices, systems, and people are spread across the globe, and at the same time virtualized. Achieving integration across this ever-changing environment is a significant challenge. This paper explores common architecture patterns seen in enterprises tackling this issue.
 
Hybrid integration can be looked at from many perspectives including application, data, and infrastructure. This whitepaper positions hybrid integration from an application perspective, and presents the reference architecture as a seamless integration from cloud to on-premises for events, APIs, and data.

Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services: Roadmap for Success was written to provide a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider application migration to the cloud. This paper details strategic and tactical activities for developing a business plan and detailed migration plan. Guidance is provided on the types of applications that are best suited for migration to the cloud.
 
Key considerations include costs of migration, the potential need for application redesign, longevity, performance and availability, security and privacy requirements, the selection of locations, and other potential regulatory requirements.
 
Version 2.0 takes into account the increasing diversity of approaches used to migrate applications to the cloud. Much of this focuses on the use of containers, virtual machines, and serverless functions, as well as on the increasing use of hybrid cloud solutions. Concerns related to security, privacy, and data residency have also become stronger since the initial version. The guide addresses how to mitigate those issues.

Migrating Applications to the Cloud: Assessing Performance and Response Time Requirements is a supplement to the CSCC paper, Migrating Applications to Public Cloud Services: Roadmap for Success.
 
Assessing applications and workloads for readiness for migration to cloud computing allows organizations to determine which applications and data can (or cannot) be readily moved to a cloud computing environment and which delivery models (public, private, or hybrid) can be supported.
 
Emphasis is placed on mapping business requirements to the underlying technology to improve decisions regarding the suitability of cloud computing for a particular workload. By testing and quantifying performance and response time implications early on, performance issues can be avoided or mitigated.

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success is a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider the implications of social, mobile and cloud technologies on their business. Organizations increasingly value how these technologies can improve customer engagement, forge new partnerships and drive competitive advantage and seek to understand the impact on new and existing business processes.
 
This guide contains guidance and strategies to help decision makers evaluate and compare offerings in key areas from different providers. Along with the base technologies of social, mobile and cloud, the guide discusses the importance of supporting technologies like integration, Big Data analytics and DevOps that enhance the business value of convergence. Industry-specific use cases are used to highlight business impact.

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success is a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider the implications of social, mobile and cloud technologies on their business. Organizations increasingly value how these technologies can improve customer engagement, forge new partnerships and drive competitive advantage and seek to understand the impact on new and existing business processes.
 
This guide contains guidance and strategies to help decision makers evaluate and compare offerings in key areas from different providers. Along with the base technologies of social, mobile and cloud, the guide discusses the importance of supporting technologies like integration, Big Data analytics and DevOps that enhance the business value of convergence. Industry-specific use cases are used to highlight business impact.

SARIF TC members are developing an interoperability standard for detecting software defects and vulnerabilities. The goal is to define a common output format for static analysis tools that will make it feasible for developers and teams to view, understand, interact with, and manage the results produced by all their tools.
 
SARIF represents a leap forward in the usability of static analysis tools. Many organizations in the safety and security communities use several competing tools on their code. SARIF will allow them to combine and compare the results more easily to gain a sharper picture of the issues in their code that need to be addressed. Engineering teams will be able to easily access a broad range of potential defects and vulnerabilities in compliance with privacy and accessibility standards. SARIF will support the development of products whose code spans languages and operating systems.

Human experts in specific IT infrastructure and business domains possess substantial knowledge about prevention, remediation, and optimization of systems. However, there is a significant challenge in capturing, combining, and leveraging this siloed knowledge across domains.
 
SAF is a catalog-based XML collaborative knowledge framework that is designed to address these challenges by automating appropriate responses to changing business conditions and integrating contributions from diverse domains to provide competitive advantage. SAF has applicability in IT and business including cloud computing, service management, governance, security, energy, eGov, financial, emergency management, healthcare, and communications.
 
Cloud computing, in particular, exacerbates the separation between consumer-based business requirements and provider-supplied IT responses. SAF facilitates knowledge sharing across these domains, allowing consumer and provider to work cooperatively together to ensure adequate capacity, maximize quality of service, and reduce cost. The SAF technical committee considers cloud computing to be an area where the value of existing and developing standards could be significantly enhanced using SAF.
 
For more information on SAF, see the TC Charter, the FAQ, and the (working) Symptoms Automation Framework Documents.

The mission of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group is to develop and maintain SVG.
 
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language that allows authors and users to describe graphics in a way which is scalable to different device resolutions, acessible, and animatable.
 
The SVG WG develops the SVG specifications. They consist of the following, somewhat independent technologies, all of which are in scope for the SVG Working Group:

• A syntax for retained-model structured graphics. Both XML and HTML5 syntaxes are suported. Styling characteristics are CSS properties, expressed as stylesheets or as presentation attributes.
• A rendering model which describes how the elements of SVG produce a graphical representation
• An Object Model, a set of standard APIs, to which libraries can be written for manipulating dynamic and responsive graphics.

As a primary focus in this charter period, the group will concentrate on the stabilization and interoperability testing of the core SVG 2 specification. As part of that testing, features which are in the reference draft of SVG2 and which do not meet the stability and interoperability requirements for a Proposed Recommendation may be moved to separate specification modules, work on which would remain in scope, but at a lower priority.
 
As a secondary focus, the group may address modules for new graphical features for SVG, once there is broad consensus on adding each such feature to the Web Platform. The SVG Community Group (and also any other fora, such as WICG) will incubate new proposals. Once an incubated proposal is implemented and available (in nightly or testing builds) in at least one major browser, and has support from other SVG implementers, it may be adopted by the SVG Working Group. A requirements document will be used to collect together these features.

The mission of the Immersive Web Working Group is to help bring high-performance Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) (collectively known as XR) to the open Web via APIs to interact with XR devices and sensors in browsers.
 
The Immersive Web Working Group will develop standardized APIs to provide access to input and output capabilities commonly associated with XR hardware such as Google’s Daydream, the Oculus Rift, the Samsung GearVR, the HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets and sensors as well as mobile handheld devices and standalone headsets such as the Oculus Go. The WG will develop APIs to enable the creation of XR web experiences that are embeddable in the Web of today, enabling progressive enhancement of existing sites.
 
The scope of the Immersive Web Working Group charter is to define APIs which:

• Detect available XR devices and sensors.
• Query XR devices for device-specific capabilities.
• Receive updated information about the device's position and orientation over time.
• Receive updated information about the device's environment.
• Present imagery to the device at the device's native frame rate, using the device’s position and orientation over time to provide an immersive experience.
• Provide information about XR-specific input, including tracked controller state and hand gesture.
• For augmenting reality on devices which support AR, enable XR sessions that provide real-world display, and provide the ability to hit-test surfaces in the real world.