The TOGAF® Standard
Introduction and Core Concepts
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Executive Overview
- What is an enterprise?
- Why is an Enterprise Architecture needed?
- What are the benefits of an Enterprise Architecture?
- What specifically would prompt the development of an Enterprise Architecture?
- What is an architecture framework?
- Why use the TOGAF Standard as a framework for Enterprise Architecture?
- Who would benefit from using the TOGAF Standard?
- When should Enterprise Architecture be done?
- 1.2 Structure of this Document
- 1.3 Information on Using the TOGAF Standard
- 1.4 Why Join The Open Group?
- 1.1 Executive Overview
- 2. The TOGAF Documentation Set
- 3. Core Concepts
- 3.1 What is the TOGAF Standard?
- 3.2 What is Architecture in the Context of the TOGAF Standard?
- 3.3 What Kind of Architecture Does the TOGAF Standard Deal With?
- 3.4 Architecture Development Method
- 3.5 Enterprise Architecture Services
- 3.6 Deliverables, Artifacts, and Building Blocks
- 3.7 Architecture Abstraction
- 3.8 Architecture Principles
- 3.9 Interoperability
- 3.10 Enterprise Continuum
- 3.11 Architecture Repository
- 3.12 TOGAF Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
- 3.13 Establishing and Maintaining an Enterprise Architecture Capability
- 3.14 Establishing the Architecture Capability as an Operational Entity
- 3.15 Using the TOGAF Standard with Other Frameworks
- 3.16 Using the TOGAF Framework with Different Architecture Styles
- 3.17 Architecture Views and Viewpoints
- 3.18 Enterprise Agility
- 3.19 Risk Management
- 4. Definitions
- 4.1 Abstraction
- 4.2 Actor
- 4.3 Application Architecture
- 4.4 Application Component
- 4.5 Application Platform
- 4.6 Application Service
- 4.7 Architectural Style
- 4.8 Architecture
- 4.9 Architecture Building Block (ABB)
- 4.10 Architecture Continuum
- 4.11 Architecture Development Method (ADM)
- 4.12 Architecture Domain
- 4.13 Architecture Framework
- 4.14 Architecture Governance
- 4.15 Architecture Landscape
- 4.16 Architecture Level
- 4.17 Architecture Model
- 4.18 Architecture Partition
- 4.19 Architecture Principle
- 4.20 Architecture View
- 4.21 Architecture Viewpoint
- 4.22 Architecture Vision
- 4.23 Artifact
- 4.24 Baseline
- 4.25 Boundaryless Information FlowTM
- 4.26 Building Block
- 4.27 Business Architecture
- 4.28 Business Capability
- 4.29 Business Function
- 4.30 Business Governance
- 4.31 Business Model
- 4.32 Business Service
- 4.33 Capability
- 4.34 Capability Architecture
- 4.35 Capability Increment
- 4.36 Communications and Stakeholder Management
- 4.37 Concern
- 4.38 Course of Action
- 4.39 Data Architecture
- 4.40 Deliverable
- 4.41 Digital Architecture
- 4.42 Enterprise
- 4.43 Enterprise Architecture Service
- 4.44 Enterprise Continuum
- 4.45 Foundation Architecture
- 4.46 Framework
- 4.47 Gap
- 4.48 Governance
- 4.49 Information
- 4.50 Information Technology (IT)
- 4.51 Interoperability
- 4.52 Logical
- 4.53 Metadata
- 4.54 Metamodel
- 4.55 Method
- 4.56 Modeling
- 4.57 Model Kind
- 4.58 Objective
- 4.59 Pattern
- 4.60 Physical
- 4.61 Principle
- 4.62 Product
- 4.63 Reference Model (RM)
- 4.64 Requirement
- 4.65 Roadmap
- 4.66 Role
- 4.67 Segment Architecture
- 4.68 Service
- 4.69 Service Orientation
- 4.70 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- 4.71 Service Portfolio
- 4.72 Solution Architecture
- 4.73 Solution Building Block (SBB)
- 4.74 Solutions Continuum
- 4.75 Stakeholder
- 4.76 Standards Library
- 4.77 Strategic Architecture
- 4.78 Target Architecture
- 4.79 Taxonomy of Architecture Views
- 4.80 Technology Architecture
- 4.81 Technology Component
- 4.82 Technology Service
- 4.83 Transition Architecture
- 4.84 Value Stream
- 4.85 View
- 4.86 Viewpoint
- 4.87 Viewpoint Library
- 4.88 Work Package
- A. Referenced Documents
- B. Glossary of Supplementary Definitions
- B.1 Application Software
- B.2 Availability
- B.3 Business System
- B.4 Catalog
- B.5 Client
- B.6 COBIT
- B.7 Configuration Management
- B.8 CxO
- B.9 Data Dictionary
- B.10 Data Element
- B.11 Database
- B.12 Database Management System
- B.13 End User
- B.14 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
- B.15 Hardware
- B.16 Information Domain
- B.17 Information System (IS)
- B.18 Interaction
- B.19 Interaction Model
- B.20 Interface
- B.21 Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
- B.22 Lifecycle
- B.23 Managing Successful Programs (MSP)
- B.24 Matrix
- B.25 Metaview
- B.26 Open System
- B.27 Operational Governance
- B.28 Packaged Services
- B.29 Portability
- B.30 Portfolio
- B.31 PRINCE2
- B.32 Program
- B.33 Project
- B.34 Risk Management
- B.35 Scalability
- B.36 Security
- B.37 Server
- B.38 Service Quality
- B.39 SMART
- B.40 Supplier Management
- B.41 System
- B.42 Time Period
- B.43 Use-Case
- B.44 User
- C. Abbreviations
- INDEX
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