The System Architecture Review, or SAR, is a process that brings sponsors, administrators and technologists together to help ensure that technology solutions for the State of New Jersey are conceived, designed, developed, and deployed in an effective and efficient manner, to maximize the benefits and functionality of the technology and align IT investments with business needs at the Enterprise level, while minimizing its cost and risk. The SAR ensures compliance with existing standards and practices, controlled introduction of new technologies and services, and appropriate reuse of existing technology, to increase returns on investment and decrease total costs of ownership.