TOGAF9foundation.txt

A deployed and operational IT system

A description of the major logical grouping of activities

• A formal description of the system
• The structure of components and their inter-relationships

A repository of architecture elements with increasing detail and specialization

A constituent of the architectural model that describes a single aspect of the system

A step by step approach to develop and use an enterprise architecture (the core of TOGAF)

The architectural area being considered

A foundational structure or set of structures which can be used for developing a broad range of different architectures.

A task of collection of tasks

A qualitative statement of intent that should be met by the architecture

A high level, aspirational view of the target architecture

A specification that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon

The existing defined system architecture

Represents a component of the business, IT, or architecture capability (potentially reusable)

The business strategy, governance, organization, and key business processes

ensures that the business processes and policies deliver the business outcomes

An ability that an organization, person, or system possesses

The key interests that are crucially important

An external factor that prevents an organiztion from pursuing a particular approach

The structure of an organization's logical and physical data assets

An artchitectural work product that is contractually specified and in turn formally reivewed, agreed, and signed off by the stakeholders

The highest level of description of an organization

A categorization mechanism for classifying architecture as they evolve from generic Foundational Architectures to Organization-specific architectures

An architecture of generic services and functions that provides a foundation on which to build on

A statement of difference between two states (baseline and target architecture differences for instance)

The discipline of monitoring, managing, and steering a business

A representation of facts

The lifecycle management of information and related technology used by an organization

An implementation-independent definition of the architecture

Data about data

A model that describes how and with what the architecture will be decribed in a structured way

A defined repeatable series of steps

A representation of a subject of interest

A technique through the contstruction of models enables a subject to be represented

A time-bound milestone for an organization that is used to demonstrate progress towards a goal

A description of a real world entity

A reference model is an abstract framework for understanding significant relationships among entities

A system that manages all the data of an enterprise

A quntitative statement of business need

A detailed formal description of areas within an enterprise

A description of a discrete and focused business operation

A candidate physical solution for an Architecture Building Block

A repository of re-usable solutions for implementation efforts

an individual, team, or organization with interests in or concerns relative to the outcome of of the architecture

A summary formal description of the enterprise and at an executive-level long term view of direction setting

A description of a future state of the architecture

A structure that allows an information system to be described in a consistent manner

The logical software and hardware capabilities

A formal description of the enterprise architecture showing periods of transition and development for particular parts of the enterprise

The representation of a related set of concerns

A definition of the perspective from which a view was taken