Glossary

A helpful A-Z glossary listing key Business and IT
transformation terms and technical definitions.

Architecture Landscape

TOGAF defines the Architecture Landscape as a representation of architectural assets that are planned, or in use by the enterprise at a particular moment in time.
Architecture Principles

An Architecture Principles is a statement of intent that should be followed or met by the architecture. Architecture Principles are typically used to provide a qualitative assessment of an architecture.
Architecture Vision

An Architecture Vision is a concise definition of the Target Architecture that describes its value (usually in terms of business value) and the changes to the enterprise of a successful deployment. I
Artifact

An Artifact or Artefact are architectural works that describe an aspect of the architecture.
Artifact (in BPMN 2.0)

Artifact, as specified and used BPMN 2.0, is a graphical object that provides supporting information about the Process or elements within the Process.
Association (in BPMN 2.0)

An Association, as specified and used in BPMN 2.0, is a connecting object that is used to link information and Artifacts with Flow Objects.
Asynchronous Process

In an asynchronous process, an activity sends a message to another process, but does not wait for a response before continuing.
Atomic Activity

An Atomic Activity is an activity that is not broken down to any finer level of Process Model detail.
Balanced Scorecard

A Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning and performance tool that is used by organizations to align business activities to the organization's vision and strategy and monitor organization performance against it's strategic goals and objectives.
Baseline

The Baseline is considered the starting point of an architecture specification that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon.

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