{"id":213,"date":"2005-03-08T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/enterprise-architecture-design-and-the-integrated-architecture-framework\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:39:56","slug":"enterprise-architecture-design-and-the-integrated-architecture-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2005\/enterprise-architecture-design-and-the-integrated-architecture-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Architecture Design and the Integrated Architecture Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been catching up on the Microsoft Architecture Journal. This is an occasional MS publication, which can be downloaded from the<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/architecture\/default.aspx?pid=journal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/architecture\/default.aspx?pid=journal\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n.NET Architecture Center<\/a>. It&#8217;s got a lot of good articles, with a software architecture and process focus.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest, there&#8217;s an article in the first edition by Cap Gemini on &#8220;Enterprise Architecture Design and the Integrated Architecture Framework&#8221;. Obviously every consultancy has their own architecture framework, and they all share some features, but what makes this one a bit different is the strong focus on the contextual (business context), conceptual (vision) and logical (solution independent capability) aspects, with technical details relegated to a bottom physical layer. It also has one of the best discussions I&#8217;ve seen on the relationship and differences between enterprise and project architectures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been catching up on the Microsoft Architecture Journal. This is an occasional MS publication, which can be downloaded from the .NET Architecture Center. It&#8217;s got a lot of good articles, with a software architecture and process focus. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2005\/enterprise-architecture-design-and-the-integrated-architecture-framework\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}