IT Architecture Management Flashcards
Business architecture
Business architecture represents how a company is organized to achieve its established business strategy and goals.
Tactical plan
Plans are considered tactical when they are detailed and short-term efforts (less than one year). A tactical plan often decomposes a strategic objective into smaller milestones.
Stakeholders
A stakeholder is a person or group with an interest, concern, or input for a project or decision.
Data architecture
A broad term that refers to all of the processes and methodologies that address data at rest, data in motion, data sets and how these relate to data-dependent processes and applications
COTS
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
SaaS
Software as a Service
Application architecture
The application architecture identifies the many business applications and describes how the applications are aligned to the business, data, and technical architectures.
TOGAF
The Open Group Architecture Framework
Technical Architecture
The organization’s hardware, software, and networks that underlie the applications and
data are described in the technical architecture.
Enterprise architecture management (EAM)
Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is an organizational discipline whose objective is to create a strategic, long-term plan for the business architecture and the technologies that will enable the planned business capabilities and processes.
Technological landscape
the infrastructure, software applications, data structures, and supporting tools in a computing environment
Agility
The ability to grow rapidly without disrupting the existing environment.
XaaS
an acronym given to generalize all cloud-based services
Heterogeneity
Heterogeneity is a word that describes the diversity or variety of something, such as a mixture, a population, or a culture
Compliance
the act of obeying a law or rule, especially one that controls a particular industry or type of work:
Enterprise Architecture Principles
Enterprise architecture principles are used by the EAM and IT teams to guide business and technology architecture decisions.
Enterprise Architecture Management
A structured practice to understand the current state architecture, build a future state architecture, and provide oversight to the ongoing evolution of the architecture.
Business application
Enterprise software that performs a business function
Productivity application
Word processors, spreadsheets, presentations, web browsers
Middleware
Database software, content management software
Patch
A small modification made to the source code of a program
Bolt-on
Large enhancements made to an application, often designed as separate code
COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language
IT Portfolio Management
A broader IT discipline in which the value of the technology portfolio is measured based on its alignment with the business and its ability to enable IT strategy.
Application Portfolio Management
A discipline that focuses on the continuous improvement of an entire portfolio of IT applications to maximize the return of investment from that Application Portfolio while ensuring that the applications meet the business needs of an enterprise.
Metadata
Data that describes other data
Governance
The process of making and enforcing decisions within an organization or society
COBIT
Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) is the leading IT-related governance framework.
Architecture steering committee
The ASC provides governance to the EAM discipline. It approves architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures. The ASC will also review and approve enterprise architecture plans and roadmaps
Architecture governance
Oversees the creation and maintenance of architectural artifacts
that describe the current and future state architectures
ARB
Architecture Review Board
Technical building
blocks
These portions of a technology solution can be reused in other solutions.
A common building block is a reusable piece of programming logic.
SAP
Systems, Applications and Products
SOA
Service Oriented Architecture
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
