Alignment Meta-Model
The meta-model within Troux Metaverse that supports aligning business goals and strategies with IT programs and projects.
Analysis Domain
Objects within the Troux meta-model covering analysis of business events. The Analysis Domain contains the following objects:
Action
A set of one or more activities performed to obtain a certain result, such as an item of business development. An action may require another action.
Analysis
A structured activity with the purpose of finding, clarifying, and describing causes and remedies of a problem or a situation.
Trend
A major development in a market or environment that impacts the business's market considerations. It is used during market analysis modeling.
A potential factor which, if it occurs, will have a strong negative impact on planned change.
A general issue of a project or an analysis that is important enough to be reported.
Recommendation
An issue coming from a project or an analysis that is reported as a recommendation for action or behavior.
A factor in the external or internal environment that impacts business goals, strategies, and rules.
Issue
A cause or motive, such as a belief, action, accident, or event. A cause can be associated with another cause.
A consequence of an issue.
Constraint
Application and Software Domain
Objects within the Troux meta-model covering IT applications and software solutions. The Application & Software Domain contains the following objects:
A logical grouping of one or more instances of executable software that fulfills a set of requirements.
Function
(See Process Domain)
Application Function
(See Process Domain)
IT Function
(See Process Domain)
Software Module
An instance of installed software that implements single or multiple functional capabilities.
A network-addressable module that runs on a physical or virtual server.
Application Server
A server in the application server class of software servers (that is, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat). Application Servers support the Java 2 Enterprise Edition specifications.
A server in the file server class of software servers (that is, Microsoft Windows Server, RedHat Linux Server, SuSE Linux Server, AIX Server). File servers provide filesystem access and do not conform to Java 2 Enterprise Edition specifications.
A server in the database server class of servers (that is, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Server, Oracle). Database servers typically support a relational database management system (RDBMS).
A server in the web server class of servers (that is, Apache or Microsoft IIS). Web servers support software that follows Internet standards such as the hypertext transfer protocol (http).
Used to model the transfer of data from one application to another.
A modeling notation established by the ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group.
Architectural Governance
The activities and processes for managing IT standards.
Architecture Building Blocks
Basic technology components that can be reused to create systems design artifacts. Systems design artifacts describe the IT components and relationships between components that work together forming a solution.
Architecture Continuum
The categorization of types of architecture, as expressed by The Architecture Forum of The Open Group. The four types of architectures that comprise the continuum are: Foundation Architectures, Common Systems Architectures, Industry Architectures, and Organization Specific Architectures.
Architecture Development Methodology (ADM)
The Open Group developed a process model for managing the enterprise architecture function within an enterprise or agency. The Architecture Development Method (ADM) specifies the various procedures and artifacts required to manage business and IT architectures.
Architecture Review Board
A committee authorized to establish IT standards for a company or agency. The committee is also responsible for managing adherence to IT standards and for review and approval of new standard requests and standards exception requests. Some ARBs also review and comment on application and systems design artifacts.
Architecture Steering Committee
A committee comprising senior management authorized to set IT strategic direction and make judgment decisions regarding exceptions to IT standards. The committee is also authorized to establish design principles and to govern adherence to design principles.
Asset Domain
One of the meta-model domains within the Metaverse Enterprise Architecture Repository. The Asset Domain contains objects that describe business and IT assets of the company or agency.