Enterprise Architecture Definitions

set of cohesive tasks of a process

conceiving, defining, expressing, documenting, communicating, certifying proper implementation of, maintaining and improving an architecture throughout the life cycle for an architecture entity

fundamental concepts or properties of an architecture entity in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution

group of architectures held by an organization that is subject to governance and management by the organization as a whole

work product used to express an architecture

thing considered, described, discussed, studied, or otherwise addressed during the architecting effort

conventions, principles and practices for use by architecture-related activities that have been established within a specific domain of application or community of stakeholders

information item expressing the architecture from the perspective of specific concerns about the architecture entity

conventions for the construction, interpretation and use of architecture views to frame specific concerns about the architecture entity

partially ordered set of enterprise activities that can be executed to achieve some desired end-result in pursuit of a given objective of an enterprise or a part of an enterprise

interest in an entity relevant to one or more of its stakeholders

discipline applied in carting out any efforts to establish, modify, or reorganize any enterprise

abstraction that represents entities within the enterprise, their relationships, composition and detailing, to the extent necessary for conveying enterprise intentions and operations

operational enterprise that functions as a system, which is realized through a life cycle with a life history

concrete or abstract thing in the domain under consideration

context that determines the setting and circumstances of technological, business, operational, organizational, political, regulatory, social, and other critical influences and constraints upon an enterprise that affect its development and behaviour but are not controllable by the enterprise itself

structure expressed in diagrams, text and formal rules, which relates the components of a conceptual enterprise architecture to each other

extent to which a concept generalizes members of a category or group

place containing collections of work products and useful information items for people to read, borrow, or refer to, and for machines to access and retrieve data from

set of distinguishable phases or stages that an entity goes through from its conceptualization until it ceases to exist

actual sequence of phases and steps an entity has gone through during its lifetime

(enterprise) characterization of the effect that an enterprise expects to achieve through the fulfilment of functional requests for products or services

abstracted representation of an entity or collection of entities that provides the ability to portray, understand or predict the properties or characteristics of the entity or collection under conditions or situations of interest

conventions for a type of modelling

modelled using a formalism, which has a formal syntax and semantics, usually with a theoretical basis, and expressible in a symbolic language

(enterprise) conceptual collection of enterprise-entity aspects related by kind of architectural concern and exhibiting reasonably distinct focal coordinates along a continuum.

group of people and facilities with an arrangement of responsibilities, authorities and relationships

collection of logically related activities, usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable

set of interrelated or interacting activities that transforms inputs into outputs

endeavor with defined start and finish dates, undertaken to create a product or service in accordance with specified resources and requirements

source of information comprising descriptions of generalized enterprise architecture concepts, requirements and recommendations

book or system for keeping an official list or record of work products and the associated information items

place where work products and the associated information items are or can be stored for preservation and retrieval

(enterprise) entity that provides some or all of the capabilities required to execute an enterprise activity

period within the life cycle of an entity that relates to the state of its description or realization

individual or organization having a right, share, claim, or interest in an architecture or in its possession of characteristics that meet their needs and expectations

combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes

recommended action intended to contribute to the achievement of one or more outcomes of an architecture process

artifact associated with the execution of a process