CWDS Glossary

The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.

The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.

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Emergency Response Referrals

Contain information in regard to allegations of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation as defined by Penal Code Section 11165 et seq., Welfare and Institutions Code, and the Division 31 regulations. Emergency Response Referrals do not include inquiries such as those regarding aid payments, Medi-Cal cards, etc.

End User

The ultimate User(s), including but not limited to, State*, county, or federal employees as identified by the State*, of a software program running on a computer system. See also User.

Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Identifies the business processes that execute or support an organization’s mission and defines how information technology assets directly enable those processes. The purpose of EA is to optimize and transform the often fragmented processes, information, Application systems and technologies into an efficient and integrated environment supportive of the execution of business strategy.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

A tool set and a strategy to create, store, distribute, discover, archive, and manage unstructured content (such as scanned documents, email, reports, medical images and office documents), and ultimately analyze usage to enable organizations to deliver relevant content to users where and when they need it. It is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization’s documents and other content that relates to the organization’s processes.

EntireX

A commercial implementation of Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technology by Software AG for the Windows, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, AS/400, z/OS, z/VM, and BS2000/OSD platforms.

Entity

In the context of Resource Management, a government, child welfare, private or public entity that does not require payment or fiscal compensation.

Environment

Environment refers to the collection of hardware and software tools a system developer uses to build software systems. The environments for the CWS-CARES Project consist of Integration, Staging, Pre-Production and Production.

Environment Validation Report

The purpose of environment validation report is to ensure that correct versions of components are deployed and setup across all environments. 

Epic

An Epic is a very large user story, expected to take multiple sprints to complete.

EUST Validation Period

The Extended User Scenario Testing (EUST) validation period gives users an opportunity to provide feedback on Required Iteration and prioritized Revision stories delivered in response to the corresponding (previous) EUST Period.
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