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An Application Platform Interface (API), sometimes also called Application Interface, is an interface between two or more applications and / or an application and an application platform. The Interface is the means of communication between application(s) and / or the application platform.
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APM involves carefully managing and optimizing a company's collection of software applications to achieve specific business goals.
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Architectural Style is the means of describing the features by which the Architecture is designed or expressed.
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Architecture refers to the structure of components, the interrelationships of these components, principles, and guidelines governing the design and evolution of the Architecture over time.
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An Architecture Building Block is a constituent component of the overall architecture that describes a single aspect of the overall model.
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The Architecture Continuum, which is a part of the Enterprise Continuum, is a collection of architectural elements, containing increasing detail and specialization.
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The Architecture Development Method (or ADM) is at the core of TOGAF and it provides the step-by-step approach to developing and then using an Enterprise Architecture.
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An Architectural Domain is the component area or viewpoint of an Architecture under consideration.
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The notion of an Architecture Framework is a conceptual structure used to construct, implement, and maintain an architecture.
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Architecture Governance is the approaches and focus by which enterprise architectures and other architectures are organized, ordered, managed and controlled at an enterprise-wide level.