Mapping of Office Technology Positioning Statement (TPS)
Categories to
DoD Technical Reference Model (TRM) Categories
| TPS Category | TPS Subcategory | TRM Service Domain | TRM Service Category | Examples |
| End-User Tools | Productivity Elements | Application Software Entity | Business Processing | Spreadsheets, project management tools |
| End-User Tools, Infrastructure Services (mixed) | Remote Access Client, Workgroup Computing, Workflow, Web / Directory Services, E-mail | Communications | E-mail, teleconferencing, computer conferencing, collaboration apps. | |
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End-User Tools |
Document Processor, Authoring Tools/Suites, Graphics, Speech Recognition | Multimedia | Word processor, authoring tools, graphics tools | |
| Enterprise Services | Document & Image management, DSS, Disaster Recovery | Environment Mgmt. | Transaction processing, Document management, CBT | |
| Database Utilities | OLAP, 4GLs | |||
| Engineering Support | CAD, DSS, Expert systems, modeling & simulation | |||
| Application Toolset | Supplementary Developer Tools, Programming Languages, Design Tools | System Services: Application Platform Entity | Software Engineering | Programming IDEs, CM systems, Design Tools |
| Infrastructure Services | Terminal emulation, Web info. delivery | User Interface | Client-server GUI, Windows, Web browsers | |
| Infrastructure Services | Directory services | Data Mgmt. | Data dictionary, directory, DBMS, transaction processing | |
| Middleware | Inter-API | Data Interchange | EDI, XML, CD-ROMs, data compression | |
| Graphics | Raster and vector functions, IGES, CGM, OpenGL, VML, Flash | |||
| Application Program Interface | Communications | OSI layer services | ||
| Infrastructure Services | Utilities | System Mgmt. | SMS, SNMP, performance monitoring, server admin., DBA | |
| Security | Security | Multi-level trusted hardware and software | ||
| Dist. Computing | client/server, DCOM, RAS | |||
| International- ization | Language translation, Unicode character set | |||
| Infrastructure Services | Desktop - Operating System, Network OS | Operating System | kernel operations, real-time extension, real-time thread, clock/calendar, fault management, shell, utilities, OS objects, media handling, computer box, backplanes, storage, peripherals | Client & server operating systems, e.g. Windows, Mac, Unix |
| Enterprise Network | Hardware - Desktop, Printers; physical network | Physical Env. Services & Resources | Desktop computers, server platforms, routers, cables | |
| External Env. Entity | Persistent Storage | disk drives, CDs | ||
| Infrastructure Services | Remote Access, Utilities, Live data streams | Networks | cables, switches, routers | |
| Devices | connectors, NIC cards | |||
| User Interface Devices | CRT displays, mouse, keyboard, biometrics, audio boards, |