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Landscapes

Overview

Content & Focus

  • Content: High-level technical descriptions of the organizational IT landscape
  • Focus: Often focus on the current state
  • Format: Expressed in strict formats, often as complex one-page diagrams using formal modeling notations, e.g. ArchiMate

Meaning & Usage

  • Meaning: Facts on the current IT landscape and some decisions on its future evolution
  • Usage: Developed and maintained by architects and used to rationalize the IT landscape, manage the lifecycle of IT assets and plan new IT initiatives (see Enterprise Architecture Practice on a Page)
  • Lifecycle: Created on an as-necessary basis and updated according to the ongoing evolution of the IT landscape

Role & Purpose

  • Role: Knowledge base of reference materials on the IT landscape
  • Purpose: Help understand, analyze and modify the structure of the IT landscape
  • Benefits: Increased reuse and agility, reduced duplication and legacy

References

Source: Enterprise Architecture on a Page v1.4 (http://eaonapage.com), Svyatoslav Kotusev (http://kotusev.com)