Phase A - Architecture Vision

The purpose of a Goal/Objective/Business Service diagram is to define the ways in which a business service contributes to the achievement of a business vision or strategy. Business services are associated with the drivers, goals, objectives, and measures that they support, allowing the enterprise to understand which business services contribute to similar aspects of business performance. The Goal/Objective/Business Service diagram also provides qualitative input on what constitutes high performance for a particular business service.

A Solution Concept diagram provides a high-level orientation of the solution that is envisaged in order to meet the objectives of the architecture engagement.

The Technology Standards catalog documents the agreed standards for technology across the enterprise covering technologies, and versions, the technology lifecycles, and the refresh cycles for the technology. Depending upon the organization, this may also include location or business domain-specific standards information. This catalog provides a snapshot of the enterprise standard technologies that are or can be deployed, and also helps identify the discrepancies across the enterprise. The Technology Standards catalog contains the following metamodel entities: Technology Ser

The purpose of this matrix is to show the capabilities required to support specific strategy statements.

A diagram representing an end-to-end collection of value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end user. The value stream map includes the following metamodel entities: Business Capability Value Stream

The purpose of this matrix is to show the capabilities required to support each stage of a value stream.

A listing of end-to-end collections of the different stages for the value-adding activities that create an overall result for customer, stakeholder, or end user. The Value Stream Stages catalog includes the following metamodel entities: Business Capability Value Stream

A listing of abilities that a business may possess to achieve specific purposes.

A listing of end-to-end collections of value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end user.