1. UC Davis Software Standards Work Group David Walker Information & Educational Technology University of California, Davis DHWalker@ucdavis.edu

2. The SSWG Sponsored by the IT Roadmap Coordinating Council Recommends standards and guidelines to facilitate  Interoperability of software systems  Sharing and reuse of software  Informed resource allocation and cost sharing

3. Overarching Issues UC Davis's academic and business needs Interoperability to support interactions among academic and business activities, as well as to facilitate sharing of IT resources Robustness, availability, responsiveness, and scalability, as appropriate to specific services Security appropriate to the services and the data they manages Agility, modularity, and extensibility to meet evolving academic and business needs Documentation and maintainability of services Leveraging the use of UC Davis resources, overall, without sacrificing appropriate unit-level optimization and innovation Agility and flexibility of the standards process itself

4. Initial Work Plan Identify administrative and budgetary barriers to reuse and sharing of software within UC Davis, and recommend strategies to address them. Recommend a standard set of platforms and implementation languages for systems that may be operated by multiple organizational units over the systems' lifetimes. Develop a set of general principles to guide the group's recommendations. Recommend a work plan for calendar year 2010.

5. More Information https://confluence.ucdavis.edu/confluence/ display/SSWG/Home DHWalker @ ucdavis.edu