Zachman Framework

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It happens that during the development process there is a moment when you need to make cardinal and complex changes. To avoid this, you should turn to high-level abstraction frameworks, such as the Zachman Framework. It will help answer important questions and look at the project from different perspectives. Zachman Framework for IT, the same as the Mendeleev periodic table in chemistry.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline which has evolved to structure the business and its alignment with the IT systems. The Zachman Framework is an enterprise ontology and is a fundamental structure for Enterprise Architecture which provides a way of viewing an enterprise and its information systems from different perspectives, and showing how the components of the enterprise are related.

Enterprise Architecture is the process used by a business to make explicit representations of enterprise operations and resources, rather than relying on implicit notions or understanding in individual managers' heads.