These models are sets of structured concepts, guidelines and/or solutions used to guide organisations through a process. Reference Model or Reference Architecture: Model to guide and improve. Model: A standard pattern or example to follow. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): A particular architecture where the application services are provided online through a service provider. Level of Abstraction: The different views of a system from high level to low level, where the high level can be decomposed into lower levels.īlueprint: A plan of action or a guide to doing something.įramework: Aggregate of fundamental parts of a structure, or of those which hold the rest together. A general and comprehensive law, doctrine or truth as the basis for other laws. Principle: Ultimate source or origin of anything from which all else is derived. I will make sure to bookmark it and come back to read more of your useful information. He moved to the United States when he was twenty-one, and spent time exploring the architecture and landscape of the West Coast before eventually settling in New York City. All these descriptions of enterprise architecture are essentially intended to improve the design of IT systems to align the information systems better with the business operation and strategic development. A classicist by training with a background in interior design, Bryant has over 30 years of experience in the architecture and design field.
There are various descriptions of enterprise architecture used by the IT profession, a very detailed description is given on the web site for TOGAF (2013) and Koontz (2000) gives a very clear layout of the different levels in the enterprise architecture. Martin in 1990 drove the emphasis for information with his books on Information Engineering and his depiction of an architecture to describe the enterprise. Brancheau and Wetherbie wrote “an information architecture is a high level map of the information requirements of an organisation” (1986), however I believe the use of the term ‘map’ diminishes the amount of structure inherent in an architecture.
The idea of architecture has now been extended to the area of information technology although this is fairly recent say within the last 30 years two of the most influential authors in the early years were Brancheau, and Martin. A great many technical issues are pre-solved for use in the design and development of a new building. Lee Jr.’s essay America’s Cities Were Designed to Oppress, an impassioned polemic on design and race that also had the great. Architecture is often considered as just the aesthetics of the building design but there are entire undergraduate and post graduate courses on building architecture that go beyond just the classic proportions for a building but detail the formulas and tables on the structural loads for foundations and support walls etc. Earlier this month, CityLab published architect Bryan C.
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