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This document is the TOGAF Standard — Introduction and Core Concepts. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group, and is part of the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition.This document introduces the standard, including an executive overview of Enterprise Architecture, a description of how the standard is organized, and a summary of core concepts. It also contains the material common to the individual documents that comprise the standard, such as the definitions, as well as document references and abbreviations. It covers the following topics: An introduction to the standard, including an executive overview of Enterprise Architecture A description of the TOGAF documentation set, describing the contents of the standard and the supporting TOGAF Library The core concepts that apply across the TOGAF Standard The terms and definitions that apply across the TOGAF Standard A glossary of supplementary definitions The TOGAF Standard is intended for Enterprise Architects, Business Architects, IT Architects, Data Architects, Systems Architects, Solution Architects, and anyone responsible for the architecture function within an organization. Other audiences are Digital and Agile Practitioners, Product Managers, and C-Suite. These audiences will find more detailed guidance on how to apply the standard to fulfil specific needs in the TOGAF Series Guides.
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The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition — Introduction and Core Concepts
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Table of Contents
Preface
The Open Group
The TOGAF® Standard
The TOGAF Documentation
This Document
Intended Audience
Trademarks
Participants
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1.1. Executive Overview
1.2. Structure of this Document
1.3. Information on Using the TOGAF Standard
1.3.1. Conditions of Use
1.3.2. How Much Does the TOGAF Standard Cost?
1.3.3. Downloads
1.4. Why Join The Open Group?
2. The TOGAF Documentation Set
2.1. Structure of the TOGAF Documentation Set
2.1.1. The TOGAF Standard
2.1.2. The TOGAF Library
2.2. The TOGAF Standard
2.3. The TOGAF Library
3. Core Concepts
3.1. What is the TOGAF Standard?
3.2. What is Architecture in the Context of the TOGAF Standard?
3.3. What Kind of Architecture Does the TOGAF Standard Deal With?
3.4. Architecture Development Method
3.5. Enterprise Architecture Services
3.5.1. Enterprise Support Services
3.5.2. Design Support Services
3.5.3. Development Support Services
3.5.4. Requirements Elicitation and Understanding Services
3.5.5. Architecture Planning Services
3.5.6. Enterprise Architecture Practice Development Support Services
3.6. Deliverables, Artifacts, and Building Blocks
3.7. Architecture Abstraction
3.7.1. Contextual Abstraction Level
3.7.2. Conceptual Abstraction Level
3.7.3. Logical Abstraction Level
3.7.4. Physical Abstraction Level
3.8. Architecture Principles
3.9. Interoperability
3.10. Enterprise Continuum
3.10.1. Architecture Repository
3.11. TOGAF Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
3.11.1. Overview
3.11.2. Content Framework
3.11.3. Enterprise Metamodel
3.11.4. Developing the Enterprise Metamodel
3.12. Establishing and Maintaining an Enterprise Architecture Capability
3.13. Establishing the Architecture Capability as an Operational Entity
3.14. Using the TOGAF Standard with Other Frameworks
3.15. Using the TOGAF Framework with Different Architecture Styles
3.16. Architecture Views and Viewpoints
3.17. Enterprise Agility
3.18. Risk Management
4. Definitions
4.1. Abstraction
4.2. Actor
4.3. Application Architecture
4.4. Application Component
4.5. Application Platform
4.6. Application Service
4.7. Architectural Style
4.8. Architecture
4.9. Architecture Building Block (ABB)
4.10. Architecture Continuum
4.11. Architecture Development Method (ADM)
4.12. Architecture Domain
4.13. Architecture Framework
4.14. Architecture Governance
4.15. Architecture Landscape
4.16. Architecture Level
4.17. Architecture Model
4.18. Architecture Partition
4.19. Architecture Principle
4.20. Architecture View
4.21. Architecture Viewpoint
4.22. Architecture Vision
4.23. Artifact
4.24. Baseline
4.25. Boundaryless Information Flow™
4.26. Building Block
4.27. Business Architecture
4.28. Business Capability
4.29. Business Function
4.30. Business Governance
4.31. Business Model
4.32. Business Service
4.33. Capability
4.34. Capability Architecture
4.35. Capability Increment
4.36. Communications and Stakeholder Management
4.37. Concern
4.38. Course of Action
4.39. Data Architecture
4.40. Deliverable
4.41. Digital Architecture
4.42. EA Landscape
4.43. Enterprise
4.44. Enterprise Architecture Service
4.45. Enterprise Continuum
4.46. Foundation Architecture
4.47. Framework
4.48. Gap
4.49. Governance
4.50. Information
4.51. Information Technology (IT)
4.52. Interoperability
4.53. Logical
4.54. Metadata
4.55. Metamodel
4.56. Method
4.57. Modeling
4.58. Model Kind
4.59. Objective
4.60. Pattern
4.61. Physical
4.62. Principle
4.63. Product
4.64. Reference Model (RM)
4.65. Requirement
4.66. Roadmap
4.67. Role
4.68. Segment Architecture
4.69. Service
4.70. Service Orientation
4.71. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
4.72. Service Portfolio
4.73. Solution Architecture
4.74. Solution Building Block (SBB)
4.75. Solutions Continuum
4.76. Stakeholder
4.77. Standards Library
4.78. Strategic Architecture
4.79. Target Architecture
4.80. Taxonomy of Architecture Views
4.81. Technology Architecture
4.82. Technology Component
4.83. Technology Service
4.84. Transition Architecture
4.85. Value Stream
4.86. View
4.87. Viewpoint
4.88. Viewpoint Library
4.89. Work Package
A: Referenced Documents
A.1. The Open Group TOGAF Series Guides
A.2. Other Publications from The Open Group
A.3. Other Referenced Documents
B: Glossary of Supplementary Definitions
B.1. Application Software
B.2. Availability
B.3. Business System
B.4. Catalog
B.5. Client
B.6. COBIT
B.7. Configuration Management
B.8. CxO
B.9. Data Dictionary
B.10. Data Element
B.11. Database
B.12. Database Management System
B.13. End User
B.14. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
B.15. Hardware
B.16. Information Domain
B.17. Information System (IS)
B.18. Interaction
B.19. Interaction Model
B.20. Interface
B.21. Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
B.22. Lifecycle
B.23. Managing Successful Programs (MSP)
B.24. Matrix
B.25. Metaview
B.26. Open System
B.27. Operational Governance
B.28. Packaged Services
B.29. Portability
B.30. Portfolio
B.31. PRINCE2
B.32. Program
B.33. Project
B.34. Risk Management
B.35. Scalability
B.36. Security
B.37. Server
B.38. Service Quality
B.39. SMART
B.40. Supplier Management
B.41. System
B.42. Time Period
B.43. Use Case
B.44. User
C: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Index
Preface
The Open Group
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The TOGAF® Standard
The TOGAF® Standard is an open, industry consensus framework for Enterprise Architecture.
It is a foundational framework, which means that it is applicable to the development of any kind of architecture in any context. This foundational framework is supplemented by The Open Group TOGAF Library, a publicly-accessible resource with an extensive and growing portfolio of guidance material, providing practical guidance in the application of the TOGAF framework in specific contexts; refer to: www.opengroup.org/togaf-library.
The TOGAF Documentation
The TOGAF documentation consists of a set of documents:
• The TOGAF Standard, which describes the generally applicable approach to Enterprise and IT Architecture
• The TOGAF Library, a portfolio of additional guidance material, which supports the practical application of the TOGAF approach
This Document
This document is the TOGAF® Standard — Introduction and Core Concepts.
It has been developed and approved by The Open Group.
This document is part of the TOGAF Standard, and provides an introduction to the standard, including an executive overview of Enterprise Architecture, a description of how the standard is organized, and a summary of core concepts. It also contains the material common to the individual documents that comprise the standard, such as the definitions, as well as document references and abbreviations.
The TOGAF Standard is presented as a series of free-standing, but closely linked documents and is supplemented by an extensive and growing portfolio of guidance material, providing practical guidance in the application of the TOGAF Standard in specific contexts.
The TOGAF Standard is a standard of The Open Group. The Open Group works with customers and suppliers of technology products and services, and with consortia and other standards organizations to capture, clarify, and integrate current and emerging requirements, establish standards and policies, and share best practices. Standards ensure openness, interoperability, and consensus.
At the time of publication, the TOGAF Standard comprises the following documents:
• TOGAF Standard — Introduction and Core Concepts
• TOGAF Standard — Architecture Development Method
• TOGAF Standard — ADM Techniques
• TOGAF Standard — Applying the ADM
• TOGAF Standard — Architecture Content
• TOGAF Standard — Enterprise Architecture Capability and Governance
• TOGAF Standard — TOGAF Series Guides (set of documents)
Intended Audience
The TOGAF Standard is intended for Enterprise Architects, Business Architects, IT Architects, Data Architects, Systems Architects, Solution Architects, and anyone responsible for the architecture function within an organization.
Other audiences are Digital and Agile Practitioners, Product Managers, and C-Suite. These audiences will find more detailed guidance on how to apply the standard to fulfill specific needs in the TOGAF Series Guides set of documents.
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