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The Open Group Architecture Framework Version 8.1, Enterprise Edition

Document Number: G051
ISBN: 1-931624-56-9

• Frontmatter
  • Preface
    • This Document
    • Intended Audience
    • Keywords
    • The Open Group
    • Structure of the TOGAF Document
    • Downloads
      • Conditions of Use
      • What is an enterprise? .
      • . an architecture? .
      • . an architecture description? .
      • . an architecture framework? .
      • Why do I need an enterprise architecture?
      • Why do I need a framework for enterprise architecture?
      • Why is this important?
      • What specifically would prompt me to develop an architecture?
      • What is TOGAF?
      • What kind of architecture does TOGAF deal with?
      • Who would benefit from using TOGAF?
      • What specifically does TOGAF contain?
      • Just how do you use TOGAF?
      • How much does TOGAF cost?
      • Since TOGAF is freely available, why join The Open Group?
      • Introduction
      • The Role of TOGAF
      • TOGAF and Architecture Governance
      • Using TOGAF with Other Frameworks
        • Overview
        • The Enterprise Continuum
        • ADM Overview
          • Relationship to Other Parts of TOGAF
          • The ADM and the Enterprise Continuum
          • The ADM and the Resource Base
          • Key Points
          • Basic Structure
          • Enterprise Scope/Focus
          • Architecture Domains
          • Vertical Scope/Level of Detail
          • Time Horizon
          • Objectives
          • Approach
            • Principles
            • Framework
            • Objectives
            • Approach
              • General
              • Creating the Architecture Vision
              • Business Scenarios
              • Objectives
              • Approach
                • General
                • Developing the Baseline Description
                • Business Modeling
                • Enterprise Continuum
                • Gap Analysis
                • Objective
                • Approach
                  • Development
                  • Implementation
                  • Objective
                  • Approach
                    • Enterprise Continuum
                    • Gap Analysis
                    • Objective
                    • Approach
                      • Enterprise Continuum
                      • Gap Analysis
                      • Objective
                      • Approach
                        • General
                        • Architecture Continuum
                        • Introduction
                        • Overview
                        • Step 1
                          • Objective
                          • Approach
                          • Inputs
                          • Activities
                          • Outputs
                          • Objective
                          • Approach
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                          • Outputs
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                          • Activities
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                          • Objectives
                          • Approach
                          • Inputs
                          • Steps
                          • Outputs
                          • Objective
                          • Approach
                            • The Drivers for Change
                            • The Change Management Process
                            • Guidelines for Maintenance versus Architecture Redesign
                            • Objective
                            • Approach
                              • General
                              • Resources
                                • Business Scenarios
                                • Volere Requirements Specification Template
                                • Requirements Tools
                                • Footnotes
                                • Introduction
                                • Major Input Descriptions
                                  • Request for Architecture Work
                                  • Architecture Principles
                                  • Re-Usable Architecture Building Blocks
                                  • Product Information
                                  • New Technology Reports
                                  • Statement of Architecture Work
                                  • Business Scenario/Architecture Vision
                                  • Business Architecture
                                  • Technology Architecture
                                  • Impact Analysis
                                  • Architecture Contract
                                  • Requirements Impact Statement
                                  • Overview
                                  • The Enterprise Continuum and Architecture Re-Use
                                  • The Enterprise Continuum and the TOGAF ADM
                                  • Constituents of the Enterprise Continuum
                                  • Structure of Part III
                                  • The Architecture Continuum
                                    • Introduction
                                    • Foundation Architecture
                                    • Common Systems Architectures
                                    • Industry Architectures
                                    • Enterprise Architectures
                                    • Introduction
                                    • Products and Services
                                    • Systems Solutions
                                    • Industry Solutions
                                    • Enterprise Solutions
                                    • Relationships
                                    • Your Enterprise
                                    • Footnotes
                                    • Concepts
                                      • Role of the TRM in the Foundation Architecture
                                      • TRM Components
                                      • Other TRMs
                                      • Overview
                                      • Portability and Interoperability
                                      • Introduction
                                      • TRM Entities and Interfaces
                                      • Application Software
                                        • Business Applications
                                        • Infrastructure Applications
                                        • The Platform Concept
                                        • Extending the TRM
                                        • Interfaces Between Services
                                        • Future Developments
                                        • Basic Principles
                                        • Application Platform Service Categories
                                          • Object-Oriented Provision of Services
                                          • Principles
                                          • Taxonomy of Service Qualities
                                          • Data Interchange Services
                                          • Data Management Services
                                          • Graphics and Imaging Services
                                          • International Operation Services
                                          • Location and Directory Services
                                          • Network Services
                                          • Operating System Services
                                          • Software Engineering Services
                                          • Transaction Processing Services
                                          • User Interface Services
                                          • Security Services
                                          • System and Network Management Services
                                          • Object-Oriented Provision of Services
                                          • Introduction
                                            • Role of the SIB
                                              • What is the SIB?
                                              • What is it for?
                                              • How is it Used in Architecture Development?
                                              • Overview
                                              • Criteria for Inclusion in the SIB
                                              • The Open Group Technical Processes
                                              • Product Standards
                                              • The Open Brand
                                              • Introduction
                                              • Examples
                                                • Getting Started
                                                • Example 1: The Entire SIB
                                                • Example 2: Referenced Standards
                                                • Example 3: Open Group Technical Standards
                                                • Example 4: Open Group Product Standards
                                                • Basic Concepts
                                                  • Background
                                                  • Components of the Model
                                                  • Relationship to Other parts of TOGAF
                                                  • Key Business and Technical Drivers
                                                    • Problem Space: The Need for Boundaryless Information Flow
                                                    • Solution Space: The Need for Integrated Information Infrastructure
                                                    • Derivation of the III-RM from the TRM
                                                    • The High-Level III-RM Graphic
                                                    • Components of the High-Level III-RM
                                                    • Detailed III-RM Graphic
                                                    • Business Applications
                                                      • Information Provider Applications
                                                      • Brokerage Applications
                                                      • Information Consumer Applications
                                                      • Development Tools
                                                      • Business Modeling Tools
                                                      • Design Modeling Tools
                                                      • Implementation and Construction Tools
                                                      • Data Modeling Tools
                                                      • Deployment Tools
                                                      • Libraries
                                                      • Management Utilities
                                                      • Operations, Administration, and Management (OA&M) Utilities
                                                      • Quality of Service Manager Utilities
                                                      • Copy Management Utilities
                                                      • Storage Management Utilities
                                                      • Software Engineering Services
                                                      • Security Services
                                                      • Location and Directory Services
                                                      • Human Interaction Services
                                                      • Data Interchange Services
                                                      • Data Management Services
                                                      • Additional Operating System Services
                                                      • Role
                                                      • Responsibilities
                                                      • Setting Up the Architecture Board
                                                        • Triggers
                                                        • Size of the Board
                                                        • Board Structure
                                                        • General
                                                        • Preparation
                                                        • Agenda
                                                          • Minutes of Previous Meeting
                                                          • Requests for Change
                                                          • Dispensations
                                                          • Compliance Assessments
                                                          • Dispute Resolution
                                                          • Architecture Strategy and Direction Documentation
                                                          • Actions Assigned
                                                          • Contract Documentation Management
                                                          • Any Other Business (AOB)
                                                          • Schedule of Meetings
                                                          • Introduction
                                                          • Terminology - The Meaning of Architecture Compliance
                                                          • Project Impact Assessments (Project Slices)
                                                            • Introduction
                                                            • Sources
                                                            • Purpose
                                                            • Timing
                                                            • Governance and Personnel Scenarios
                                                            • Overview
                                                            • Roles
                                                            • Steps
                                                            • Hardware and Operating System Checklist
                                                            • Software Services and Middleware Checklist
                                                            • Applications Checklists
                                                              • Infrastructure (Enterprise Productivity) Applications
                                                              • Business Applications
                                                              • Application Integration Approach
                                                              • Data Values
                                                              • Data Definition
                                                              • Security/Protection
                                                              • Hosting, Data Types, and Sharing
                                                              • Common Services
                                                              • Access Method
                                                              • General
                                                              • Processors/Servers/Clients
                                                              • Client
                                                              • Application Server
                                                              • Data Server
                                                              • COTS (where applicable)
                                                              • Guidelines for Tailoring the Checklists
                                                              • Guidelines for Conducting Architecture Compliance Reviews
                                                              • Role
                                                              • Contents
                                                                • Statement of Architecture Work
                                                                • Contract between Architecture Design and Development Partners
                                                                • Contract between Architecting Function and Business Users
                                                                • Introduction
                                                                  • Levels of Governance within the Enterprise
                                                                  • The Nature of Governance
                                                                    • Governance: A Generic Perspective
                                                                    • The Characteristics of Governance
                                                                    • An IT Governance Framework - COBIT
                                                                    • Architecture Governance Characteristics
                                                                    • Architecture Governance as a Board-Level Responsibility
                                                                    • TOGAF and Architecture Governance
                                                                    • Architecture Governance Framework - Conceptual Structure
                                                                      • Key Concepts
                                                                      • Key Architecture Governance Processes
                                                                      • Policy Management and Take-On
                                                                      • Compliance
                                                                      • Dispensation
                                                                      • Monitoring and Reporting
                                                                      • Business Control
                                                                      • Environment Management
                                                                      • Overview
                                                                      • Key Areas
                                                                      • Operational Benefits
                                                                      • Architecture Governance - Key Success Factors
                                                                      • Elements of an Effective Architecture Governance Strategy
                                                                        • Architecture Governance and Corporate Politics
                                                                        • Key Strategic Elements
                                                                        • Overview
                                                                        • Background
                                                                        • The US DoC ACMM Framework
                                                                          • Overview
                                                                          • Elements of the ACMM
                                                                          • Example: IT Architecture Process Maturity Levels
                                                                            • Level 0: None
                                                                            • Level 1: Initial
                                                                            • Level 2: Under Development
                                                                            • Level 3: Defined
                                                                            • Level 4: Managed
                                                                            • Level 5: Optimizing
                                                                            • Introduction
                                                                            • The SCAMPI Method
                                                                            • Footnotes
                                                                            • Introduction
                                                                              • Background
                                                                              • Content of a Pattern
                                                                              • Terminology
                                                                                • Architecture Patterns and Design Patterns
                                                                                • Patterns and the Architecture Continuum
                                                                                • Patterns and Views
                                                                                • Patterns and Business Scenarios
                                                                                • TADG Pattern Content
                                                                                • TADG Architecture Patterns
                                                                                • Introduction
                                                                                • Characteristics of Architecture Principles
                                                                                • Components of Architecture Principles
                                                                                • Developing Architecture Principles
                                                                                  • Qualities of Principles
                                                                                  • Business Principles
                                                                                  • Data Principles
                                                                                  • Application Principles
                                                                                  • Technical Principles
                                                                                  • Introduction
                                                                                  • The Need for an IT Architecture Skills Framework
                                                                                    • Definitional Rigor
                                                                                    • The Basis of an Internal Architecture Practice
                                                                                    • Enterprise Certification of IT Architects
                                                                                    • Specific Benefits
                                                                                    • Overview
                                                                                    • TOGAF Roles
                                                                                    • Categories of Skills
                                                                                    • Proficiency Levels
                                                                                    • Generic Skills
                                                                                    • Business Skills & Methods
                                                                                    • Enterprise Architecture Skills
                                                                                    • Program or Project Management Skills
                                                                                    • IT General Knowledge Skills
                                                                                    • Technical IT Skills
                                                                                    • Legal Environment
                                                                                    • Generic Role
                                                                                    • Characterization in Terms of the Enterprise Continuum
                                                                                    • Key Characteristics of an IT Architect
                                                                                      • Skills and Experience in Producing Designs
                                                                                      • Extensive Technical Breadth, with Technical Depth in One or a Few Disciplines
                                                                                      • Method-Driven Approach to Execution
                                                                                      • Full Project Scope Experience
                                                                                      • Leadership
                                                                                      • Personal and Professional Skills
                                                                                      • Skills and Experience in One or More Industries
                                                                                      • The Role of Architecture Views
                                                                                        • Introduction
                                                                                        • TOGAF and Standards for IT Architecture Description
                                                                                        • A Note on Terminology
                                                                                        • A Simple Example of a Viewpoint and View
                                                                                        • General Guidelines
                                                                                        • View Creation Process
                                                                                        • Overview
                                                                                        • Stakeholders
                                                                                        • Views/Viewpoints
                                                                                        • Description
                                                                                        • Overview
                                                                                        • Example of Views and Viewpoints
                                                                                        • Views and Viewpoints in Information Systems
                                                                                        • The Need for a Common Language and Interoperable Tools for Architecture Description
                                                                                        • Stakeholder and Concerns
                                                                                        • Modeling the View
                                                                                        • Key Issues
                                                                                        • Stakeholder and Concerns
                                                                                        • Modeling the View
                                                                                        • Basic Concepts
                                                                                          • Information Domains
                                                                                          • Strict Isolation
                                                                                          • Absolute Protection
                                                                                          • Operating System Services
                                                                                          • Network Services
                                                                                          • System Security Management Services
                                                                                          • Stakeholders and Concerns
                                                                                            • Development Approach
                                                                                            • Software Modularity and Re-Use
                                                                                            • Portability
                                                                                            • Migration and Interoperability
                                                                                            • Data-Intensive Versus Information-Intensive Software Systems
                                                                                            • Achieving Interoperability
                                                                                            • Software Tiers
                                                                                            • Two-Tier
                                                                                            • Three-Tier
                                                                                            • Five-Tier
                                                                                            • Some Uses of a Data Access Tier
                                                                                            • One Possible Instantiation of a Data Access Interface
                                                                                            • DAIs Enable Flexibility
                                                                                            • Distribution
                                                                                            • The Infrastructure Bus
                                                                                            • Stakeholder and Concerns
                                                                                            • Key Issues
                                                                                              • Client/Server Model
                                                                                              • Master/Slave and Hierarchic Models
                                                                                              • Peer-to-Peer Model
                                                                                              • Distributed Object Management Model
                                                                                              • Stakeholder and Concerns
                                                                                              • Key Issues
                                                                                                • Communications Infrastructure
                                                                                                • Communications Models
                                                                                                • The OSI Reference Model
                                                                                                • Communications Framework
                                                                                                • Allocation of Services to Components
                                                                                                • Stakeholder and Concerns
                                                                                                • Modeling the View
                                                                                                • Key Issues
                                                                                                  • Database Management Systems
                                                                                                  • Database Models
                                                                                                  • Distributed DBMSs
                                                                                                  • Distributed Heterogeneous DBMSs
                                                                                                  • Data Dictionary/Directory Systems
                                                                                                  • Data Administration
                                                                                                  • Repository
                                                                                                  • Database Administration
                                                                                                  • Data Security
                                                                                                  • Stakeholders and Concerns
                                                                                                  • Modeling the View
                                                                                                  • Key Issues
                                                                                                  • Stakeholders and Concerns
                                                                                                  • Modeling the View
                                                                                                  • Key Issues
                                                                                                  • Footnotes
                                                                                                  • Overview
                                                                                                  • Introduction to Building Blocks
                                                                                                    • Overview
                                                                                                    • Generic Characteristics
                                                                                                    • Architecture Building Blocks
                                                                                                      • Characteristics
                                                                                                      • Specification Content
                                                                                                      • Characteristics
                                                                                                      • Specification Content
                                                                                                      • Basic Principles
                                                                                                        • Building Blocks in Architecture Design
                                                                                                        • Building Block Design
                                                                                                        • Mapping the Modeling Levels to the ADM
                                                                                                        • Introduction
                                                                                                        • Structure
                                                                                                        • Background to the Example
                                                                                                        • Business Process Level (Phase B)
                                                                                                        • Technical Functionality and Constraints Level (Phases B, C, & D)
                                                                                                          • Assumptions of Required Technical Functionality
                                                                                                          • Customer Information System Building Block Specification
                                                                                                          • Description
                                                                                                          • Mandated Building Blocks
                                                                                                          • Map to Business Organization Entities and Policies
                                                                                                          • Introduction
                                                                                                          • Role
                                                                                                          • Introduction
                                                                                                          • Benefits of Business Scenarios
                                                                                                          • Creating the Business Scenario
                                                                                                            • The Overall Process
                                                                                                            • Gathering
                                                                                                            • Analyzing
                                                                                                            • Reviewing
                                                                                                            • General Guidelines
                                                                                                            • Questions to Ask for Each Area
                                                                                                              • Identifying, Documenting, and Ranking the Problem
                                                                                                              • Identifying the Business & Technical Environment, and Documenting in Models
                                                                                                              • Identifying and Documenting Objectives
                                                                                                              • Identifying Human Actors and their Place in the Business Model
                                                                                                              • Identifying Computer Actors and their Place in the Technology Model
                                                                                                              • Documenting Roles, Responsibilities, Measures of Success, Required Scripts
                                                                                                              • Checking for Fitness-for-Purpose, and refining if necessary
                                                                                                              • Textual Documentation
                                                                                                              • Business Scenario Models
                                                                                                              • The Importance of Goals
                                                                                                              • The Importance of SMART Objectives
                                                                                                                • Example of Making Objectives SMART
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Business Process Performance
                                                                                                                • Goal: Decrease Costs
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Business Operations
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Management Efficacy
                                                                                                                • Goal: Reduce Risk
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Effectiveness of IT Organization
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve User Productivity
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Portability and Scalability
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Interoperability
                                                                                                                • Goal: Increase Vendor Independence
                                                                                                                • Goal: Reduce Lifecycle Costs
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Security
                                                                                                                • Goal: Improve Manageability
                                                                                                                • The Role of Case Studies
                                                                                                                • Dairy Farm Group (Hong Kong)
                                                                                                                • Department of Social Security (UK)
                                                                                                                  • Organizational Context
                                                                                                                  • Existing IT
                                                                                                                  • Strategic Objectives
                                                                                                                  • The Accord Project
                                                                                                                  • The Need for a New Architectural Framework
                                                                                                                  • CISITAF Documentation Set
                                                                                                                  • Technical Reference Model
                                                                                                                  • Standards Information Base
                                                                                                                  • Architecture Development Process
                                                                                                                  • Architecture Views
                                                                                                                  • Model Technical Architecture
                                                                                                                  • Using the CISITAF
                                                                                                                  • Background
                                                                                                                  • Definition of Existing Environment in Existing Terms
                                                                                                                  • Restatement of Existing Environment in TOGAF Terms
                                                                                                                  • Views, Constraints, and External Environments
                                                                                                                    • Operations View
                                                                                                                    • Management View
                                                                                                                    • Security View
                                                                                                                    • Constraints
                                                                                                                    • Goals
                                                                                                                    • External Environments
                                                                                                                    • Executive Summary
                                                                                                                    • Laying the Foundations
                                                                                                                    • Constructing the Model
                                                                                                                    • Building the Framework
                                                                                                                    • Defining an Architecture
                                                                                                                    • The Way Forward
                                                                                                                    • Police IT
                                                                                                                    • Objectives of NSPIS
                                                                                                                    • Purpose
                                                                                                                    • NSPIS Technical Architecture Manual
                                                                                                                    • Applying the Framework
                                                                                                                    • NSPIS Technical Reference Model
                                                                                                                    • Interoperability
                                                                                                                    • Technical Requirements and Views
                                                                                                                    • The Architecture in Action
                                                                                                                    • Norway Streamlines Government Processes by Going Online
                                                                                                                    • Working with The Open Group to Plan the Future
                                                                                                                    • An Internet DialTone Framework as Easy-to-Use as the Telephone
                                                                                                                    • Footnotes
                                                                                                                    • AC
                                                                                                                    • ACSE
                                                                                                                    • Ada
                                                                                                                    • ADM
                                                                                                                    • ANSI
                                                                                                                    • API
                                                                                                                    • APP
                                                                                                                    • Application
                                                                                                                    • Application Platform
                                                                                                                    • Application Portability Profile (APP)
                                                                                                                    • Application Program Interface (API)
                                                                                                                    • Application Software
                                                                                                                    • APSE
                                                                                                                    • Architectural Framework
                                                                                                                    • Architecture
                                                                                                                    • Architecture, Baseline
                                                                                                                    • Architecture Continuum
                                                                                                                    • Architecture, Database
                                                                                                                    • Architecture, Target
                                                                                                                    • Architecture View
                                                                                                                    • ASN
                                                                                                                    • ASP
                                                                                                                    • Availability
                                                                                                                    • Base-Level Functions
                                                                                                                    • Baseline
                                                                                                                    • Batch Processing
                                                                                                                    • Business System
                                                                                                                    • CCITT
                                                                                                                    • Client
                                                                                                                    • CMIS
                                                                                                                    • CMIP
                                                                                                                    • COBIT
                                                                                                                    • COBOL
                                                                                                                    • Communications Mechanism
                                                                                                                    • Communications Network
                                                                                                                    • Communications Node
                                                                                                                    • Communications System
                                                                                                                    • Configuration Management
                                                                                                                    • Connectivity Service
                                                                                                                    • CORBA
                                                                                                                    • Data Dictionary
                                                                                                                    • Data Element
                                                                                                                    • Database
                                                                                                                    • Database Management System
                                                                                                                    • Data Interchange Service
                                                                                                                    • Data Management Service
                                                                                                                    • DBMS
                                                                                                                    • DCE
                                                                                                                    • DDL
                                                                                                                    • Default
                                                                                                                    • Directory Service
                                                                                                                    • DISA
                                                                                                                    • Distributed Database
                                                                                                                    • DMF
                                                                                                                    • ECMA
                                                                                                                    • EDI
                                                                                                                    • EEI
                                                                                                                    • End User
                                                                                                                    • Enterprise
                                                                                                                    • Enterprise Continuum
                                                                                                                    • Enterprise Model
                                                                                                                    • ERP
                                                                                                                    • ES
                                                                                                                    • Expand
                                                                                                                    • External Environment Interface (EEI)
                                                                                                                    • File
                                                                                                                    • FIPS
                                                                                                                    • FORTRAN
                                                                                                                    • FTAM
                                                                                                                    • Function
                                                                                                                    • GNMP
                                                                                                                    • GOSIP
                                                                                                                    • GSS
                                                                                                                    • GUI
                                                                                                                    • Hardware
                                                                                                                    • Human Computer Interface (HCI)
                                                                                                                    • IEC
                                                                                                                    • IEEE
                                                                                                                    • III
                                                                                                                    • III-RM
                                                                                                                    • Information
                                                                                                                    • Information Domain
                                                                                                                    • Information System
                                                                                                                    • Information Technology (IT)
                                                                                                                    • Interface
                                                                                                                    • Interoperability
                                                                                                                    • IS
                                                                                                                    • ISA
                                                                                                                    • ISO
                                                                                                                    • IT
                                                                                                                    • ITIL
                                                                                                                    • JTC1
                                                                                                                    • LAN
                                                                                                                    • Lifecycle
                                                                                                                    • MAN
                                                                                                                    • Metaview (also known as a Viewpoint)
                                                                                                                    • MIS
                                                                                                                    • MLS
                                                                                                                    • MTA
                                                                                                                    • Multimedia Service
                                                                                                                    • NIST
                                                                                                                    • NLSP
                                                                                                                    • ODA
                                                                                                                    • ODIF
                                                                                                                    • OECD
                                                                                                                    • OIW
                                                                                                                    • OODBMS
                                                                                                                    • Open Specifications
                                                                                                                    • Open System
                                                                                                                    • Open Systems Environment (OSE)
                                                                                                                    • Operating System Service
                                                                                                                    • ORB
                                                                                                                    • OS
                                                                                                                    • OSE
                                                                                                                    • OSI
                                                                                                                    • PEX
                                                                                                                    • PHIGS
                                                                                                                    • Platform
                                                                                                                    • Portability
                                                                                                                    • POSIX
                                                                                                                    • Profile
                                                                                                                    • Profiling
                                                                                                                    • RAS
                                                                                                                    • RDA
                                                                                                                    • RDBMS
                                                                                                                    • Repository
                                                                                                                    • RM
                                                                                                                    • RPC
                                                                                                                    • Scalability
                                                                                                                    • Security
                                                                                                                    • Server
                                                                                                                    • SGML
                                                                                                                    • SIB
                                                                                                                    • SMAP
                                                                                                                    • SMTP
                                                                                                                    • SNA
                                                                                                                    • SNMP
                                                                                                                    • Solutions Continuum
                                                                                                                    • SQL
                                                                                                                    • SWG
                                                                                                                    • System
                                                                                                                    • System and Network Management Service
                                                                                                                    • System Stakeholder
                                                                                                                    • TAFIM
                                                                                                                    • Taxonomy of Architecture Views
                                                                                                                    • TCP/IP
                                                                                                                    • TCSEC
                                                                                                                    • Technical Reference Model
                                                                                                                    • TFA
                                                                                                                    • TLSP
                                                                                                                    • TNI
                                                                                                                    • TP
                                                                                                                    • Transaction
                                                                                                                    • Transaction Sequence
                                                                                                                    • TRM
                                                                                                                    • TSIG
                                                                                                                    • UIDL
                                                                                                                    • UIMS
                                                                                                                    • UISRM
                                                                                                                    • User
                                                                                                                    • User Interface Service
                                                                                                                    • View
                                                                                                                    • Viewpoint (also known as a Metaview)
                                                                                                                    • WAN
                                                                                                                    • Introduction
                                                                                                                    • C4ISR Architecture Framework
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Comparison with TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Relationship to TOGAF
                                                                                                                      • Footnotes
                                                                                                                      • Overview
                                                                                                                      • Issues in Tool Standardization
                                                                                                                      • Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines
                                                                                                                        • Tool Criteria
                                                                                                                          • Functionality
                                                                                                                          • Key Features and Functions
                                                                                                                          • Intuitiveness/Ease-of-Use Factors
                                                                                                                          • Organizational Compatibility Factors
                                                                                                                          • Tool Capacity/Scalability Constraints
                                                                                                                          • Architecture of the Tool
                                                                                                                          • Full Lifecycle Support
                                                                                                                          • Interoperability Factors
                                                                                                                          • Financial Considerations
                                                                                                                          • Vendor Factors
                                                                                                                          • Introduction
                                                                                                                          • The Zachman Framework
                                                                                                                          • Mapping TOGAF to the Zachman Framework
                                                                                                                            • Preliminary Phase: Framework and Principles
                                                                                                                            • Phase A: Architecture Vision
                                                                                                                            • Phase B: Business Architecture
                                                                                                                            • Phase C: Informations System Architectures: Data Architecture
                                                                                                                            • Phase C: Informations System Architectures: Applications Architecture
                                                                                                                            • Phase D: Technology Architecture
                                                                                                                              • Step 1: Create a Baseline Description in the TOGAF Format
                                                                                                                              • Step 2: Consider Different Architecture Reference Models, Viewpoints, and Tools
                                                                                                                              • Step 3: Create an Architectural Model of Building Blocks
                                                                                                                              • Step 4: Select the Services Portfolio Required per Building Block
                                                                                                                              • Step 8: Conduct a Gap Analysis
                                                                                                                              • Composite Mapping for Phase D

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