TOGAF

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The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture framework. It provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture. TOGAF is a high-level approach to design. It is typically modeled at four levels: Business, Application, Data, and Technology. It relies heavily on modularization, standardization, and already existing, proven technologies and product. TOGAF began to be developed in 1995 by The Open Group, based on the United States Department of Defense's TAFIM and Capgemini's Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF). As of 2016, The Open Group claims that TOGAF is employed by 80% of Global 50 companies and 60% of Fortune 500 companies. An architecture framework is a set of tools that can be used for developing a broad range of different architectures. It will typically: describe a method for defining an information system in terms of a set of building blocks show how the building blocks fit...

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