EA3 artifact

EA3 artifact I-4: Technology Forecast

The Technology Forecast supports and relates to the I-3 Technology Standards Profile.  The Technology Forecast documents expected changes in any of the standards listed in the I-3 artifact, where future changes appear to be happening or about to happen.

• Captures expected changes in technology related standards and conventions
• Identifies critical technology standards, their fragility, and impact of changes to the architecture
• Contains specific predictions about the availability of emerging standards, and relates to specific System/Application (SA) framework elements

EA3 artifact I-2: Hosting Concept of Operations

The infrastructure sourcing model is an important architectural decision. Cloud-based hosting solutions are becoming more and more popular.

EA3 artifact I-1: Network Diagram

The Network Diagram shows the physical connections between the enterprise’s voice, data, and video network… including external Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs)… also called ‘extranets’ and ‘intranets.’

EA3 artifact A-11: Software License Inventory

Software Asset Management (SAM) enables strategic infrastructure planning, prevents over-licensing and under-licensing, and identifies over-deployment of hardware and its associated costs.

It also allows the IT department to control exactly what software an employee can access and significantly reduces the opportunity for users to introduce unlicensed software on to networks.

EA3 artifact A-10: Application Inventory

EA3 artifact A-9: Application Maintenance Procedure

Documentation of how:

• the organization develops and formally documents system maintenance policy;
• the organization system maintenance policy addresses: -purpose; -scope; -roles and responsibilities; -management commitment; -coordination among organizational entities; and -compliance;
• the organization disseminates formal documented system maintenance policy to elements within the organization having associated system maintenance roles and responsibilities;
• the organization develops and formally documents system maintenance procedures;
• the organization system maintenance procedures facilitate implementation of the system maintenance policy and associated system maintenance controls; and
• the organization disseminates formal documented system maintenance procedures to elements within the organization having associated system maintenance roles and responsibilities.
• the organization defines the frequency of system maintenance policy reviews/updates;
• the organization reviews/updates system maintenance policy in accordance with organization-defined frequency;
• the organization defines the frequency of system maintenance procedure reviews/updates; and
• the organization reviews/updates system maintenance procedures in accordance with organization-defined frequency.

EA3 artifact A-8: Service Bus Diagram

The service bus diagram shows the logical relationships between web-based information services, in this case showing a detailed diagram of services that interact via standard protocols and interfaces that promote platform-independent data interchanges.

EA3 artifact A-7: System Evolution Diagram

The System Evolution Diagram shows the evolution of a system including the relationship and timing of consolidations installations, upgrades, and retirements, sometimes shown in the context of changes to other systems, applications, websites, and databases.

EA3 artifact A-6: Application Performance Matrix

The Application Performance Matrix lists the metrics that are important with regard to reliability, availability, and maintainability.

1. Specifies the quantitative characteristics of system:
   • Hardware/software
   • Interfaces
   • Communication components
2. Identifies both current and future parameters.
3. Includes all relevant technical performance characteristics, for instance:
   • Mean Time Between Failure
   • Restart Rate
   • System Initialization Time
   • Data Transfer Rate