{"id":558,"date":"2022-04-01T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/?p=558"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:28:34","slug":"what-is-togaf-for-enterprise-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/investigation\/what-is-togaf-for-enterprise-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"What is TOGAF for Enterprise Architecture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/togaf.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) <\/a> is an Enterprise Architecture framework that provides an approach for the design, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture. The architecture is modeled in four levels or dimensions: Business, Applications, Data and Technology. Each level is defined with a current state and a future state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOGAF<\/strong> has its own definition of what an architecture is, which in summary is &#8220;a formal description of a system, or a detailed plan of the system at the level of its components that guides its implementation&#8221;, or &#8220;the structure of components, their interrelationships, and the principles and guidelines that govern its design and evolution over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An architecture framework is a set of tools that can be used to develop a wide spectrum of different architectures. This scheme must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe a methodology for defining an information system in terms of a set of building blocks that fit together properly.<\/li>\n<li>Contain a set of tools<\/li>\n<li>Provide a common vocabulary<\/li>\n<li>Include a list of recommended standards<\/li>\n<li>Include a list of products that are suitable for implementation of the building blocks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TOGAF<\/strong> meets these requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOGAF<\/strong> is based on four dimensions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Business Architecture (or Business Processes):<\/span> which defines the business strategy, governance, structure, and key processes of the organization.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Application Architecture:<\/span>\u00a0which provides a blueprint for each of the applications, the interactions between them and their relationships with the organization&#8217;s business processes.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Data Architecture:<\/span>\u00a0which describes the structure of the logical and physical data of the organization, together with the structures and resources for managing these data.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Technological Architecture:<\/span>\u00a0which describes the hardware, software and network structure required to support the implementation of the organization&#8217;s core applications.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>\n<div>Finally, to conduct a <strong>TOGAF<\/strong> enterprise architecture project, the Architecture Development Method (ADM) is used. This is the method defined by TOGAF for the development of an enterprise architecture to meet the business and information technology needs of an organization. It can be adjusted and customized according to the organization&#8217;s own needs and once defined, it is used to manage the execution of architecture development activities.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_554\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-554\" src=\"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2-770x1024.png 770w, https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2-768x1022.png 768w, https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2-1155x1536.png 1155w, https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2-1540x2048.png 1540w, https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/adm_tog-r2.png 1759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architecture Development Method<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/ingsoftrec.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/introduccion-togaf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/ingsoftrec.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/introduccion-togaf.html<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an Enterprise Architecture framework that provides an approach for the design, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture. The architecture is modeled in four levels or dimensions: Business, Applications, Data and Technology. Each level is defined with a current state and a future state. TOGAF has its own definition of what an architecture is, which in summary is &#8220;a formal description of a system, or a detailed plan of the system at the level of its components that guides its implementation&#8221;, or &#8220;the structure of components, their interrelationships, and the principles and guidelines that govern its design and evolution over time.&#8221; An architecture framework is a set of tools that can be used to develop a wide spectrum of different architectures. This scheme must: Describe a methodology for defining an information system in terms of a set of building blocks that fit together properly. Contain a set of tools Provide a common vocabulary Include a list of recommended standards Include a list of products that are suitable for implementation of the building blocks TOGAF meets these requirements. TOGAF is based on four dimensions: Business Architecture (or Business Processes): which defines the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[]},"categories":[31,30,32,29,27],"tags":[36,37,51,52,54,53,50],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gestiaconsultores.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}