TOGAF 9 encompasses the entire enterprise architecture life cycle, which is important as architecture is a never ending journey, always changing and evolving. The figure below depicts the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) which covers the entire architecture life cycle.
The Zachman Framework is a framework for enterprise architecture, which provides a formal and highly structured way of viewing and defining an enterprise.
The Framework in practice is used for organizing enterprise architectural "artifacts" in a way that takes into account both:
who the artifact targets for example, business owner and builder, and
what particular issue for example, data and functionality is being addressed.
These artifacts may include design documents, specifications, and models.[3]
The Framework is in essence a matrix,[4]. It is named after its creator John Zachman, who first developed the concept in the 1980s at IBM. It has been updated several times ever since.[5]
The Open Group's SOA Source Book is a collection of source material for use by enterprise architects working with Service-Oriented Architecture.
It consists of material that has been considered and in part developed by The Open Group's SOA Working Group. The SOA Working Group is engaged in a work program to produce definitions, analyses, recommendations, reference models, and standards to assist business and information technology professionals within and outside of the Open Group to understand and adopt SOA. The source book does not represent the final output of that work program, which will be published as a collection of Open Group Standards and Guides. It is an interim publication, and its content will not necessarily be reflected in the final output.
The material reflects input from a large number of people from a wide range of Open Group member companies, including product vendors, consultancies, and users of SOA. In some cases, these people have brought concepts developed, not just by themselves, but by groups of people within their organizations. The input has been refined and further developed through discussion within the Working Group. The value in the result is due to the ideas and efforts of the Working Group members.
The material is now published in its current form to make that value available to the wider architecture community.
at the core, enterprise architecture is very simple: it starts with the idea that one should plan technology purchases and development ahead of time and -- here's the important part -- that the business people, not technology people, should determine what is needed (the requirements).
As the link between business and IT strategy, the enterprise architecture outlines the framework for IT solutions. The EA describes IT structures, standards, processes and shared corporate services. The task of an EA is to support the business areas and IT experts in shared planning processes and in the comprehensive further development of the IT architecture. Detecon decided to use TOGAF from Open Group as an open and widely accepted standard as basis for our architecture work. A comprehensive experience from successful projects at customers with different size and industry demonstrates the benefits of that strong methodology. Based on TOGAF basic structures, Detecon enhanced the methodology in different areas, e.g. the finance and controlling, business cases, governance or SOA migration strategy, and applies those successfully.
Detecon trains architects in the TOGAF framework with the following goals:
To accelerate architecture development at their companies
To reduce complexity in planning heterogeneous best-of-breed systems
To secure the implementation of all requirements
To ensure security for the future
To provide a tool for improved communication of goals and strategies for business units and managers.
T. Bucher, R. Fischer, S. Kurpjuweit, and R. Winter. Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, 2006. EDOCW '06. 10th IEEE International, (October 2006)