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The vertical dimension describes the system development process beginning with the objectives establishment and conceptual design and ending with the Implementation.
I would like to launch a challenge with regard to Zachman’s table by saying that it is neither an ontology nor a framework, as it was often said, but a good old system development process. Whatis.com states that “an ontology…
What ontology-frameworks do we need, to make sense of the enterprise-architecture of a logistics-business? This is the first of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create appropriate tools to help…
The Framework is the Ontology
I have no idea where people get the idea that the Zachman Framework requires any documentation at all. The Zachman Framework is an ontology – the theory of the existence of essential components of an enterprise (actually, of anything) that warrant description in order to successfully create it, operate it or change it. Whether any or all of those components are described (documented, made explicit) is a function of a methodology and the choice of the Enterprise… not a requirement of the Framework.
In answer to a question about “implementing” the Zachman Framework … here is my response:
Remember … the Framework is much like the Periodic Table … you wouldn’t necessarily “implement” the Periodic Table. However, it would be really helpful if you could keep an inventory of as many of the Periodic Table elements as you can so when you get ready to produce a compound, a chemical implementation, it could be done very quickly and very cheaply.
Similarly, the Framework.
I always say … “Some day … SOMEDAY, you are going to wish you had all these models …. etc. etc.” You don’t NEED all the models … however, the more, the better … but maybe it would be UTOPIA to have all the Framework Primitive, single-variable models, all made explicit, all enterprise-wide, all horizontally and vertically integrated and all at excruciating level of detail! If you had them all in inventory, you could manufacture Composite implementations (systems) from the Primitive Models (architecture) VERY quickly and VERY cheaply! That effectively would be “mass-customization” of the Enterprise (“custom Enterprises mass-produced in quantities of one for immediate delivery”) … the actual realization of “late-binding” of system implementations … not to mention an actually “lean and mean”, deliberately designed, Enterprise reality!
ALEXANDRIA, VA, USA — Apr. 29, 2012 – Zachman International®, Inc., a Colorado Springs, CO, USA based Enterprise Architecture firm with operations in Los Angeles, CA, USA, announced today that it has acquired all shares and interest in FEAC® Institute, Inc., the leading and premier Training and Certification Institution for Professional Enterprise Architects based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Terms of the transaction are confidential.
ALEXANDRIA, VA, USA — Apr. 29, 2012 – Zachman International®, Inc., a Colorado Springs, CO, USA based Enterprise Architecture firm with operations in Los Angeles, CA, USA, announced today that it has acquired all shares and interest in FEAC® Institute, Inc., the leading and premier Training and Certification Institution for Professional Enterprise Architects based in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Terms of the transaction are confidential.
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CEA Black Belt, ACEA Green Belt, 5-Day Bootcamp and 3-Day Seminars are all avalaible.
With more focus on the enterprise ontology, the new Zachman Framework is here and available!
John announced the new version to a packed house at the Experis sponsored event in Sacramento on August 23, 2011. Some of the new features include: updated graphics, more precise words from the meta-model (specifically in columns 2, 3, 4 and 5), cell integration lines, cell transformation notation, model definition, perspective refinement and more! (booklet detailing the changes coming soon!)
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