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Business Architecture

Dedicated: Focuses on aligning business goals with IT strategies.

Defines business strategy, capabilities, value streams, and stakeholders.

Data Architecture

Dedicated: Describes how data is managed and shared across the organization.

Integrated within the Information domain, focusing on how information supports business processes.

Applications Architecture

Dedicated: Covers the software applications that support business processes.

Typically part of the business capabilities and value streams, but not explicitly separated as an architecture layer.

Technology Architecture

Dedicated: Focuses on the infrastructure (hardware, software, networks) required for business operations.

Not a primary domain, but technical considerations may be addressed through business capabilities and initiatives.

Performance Architecture

Dedicated: Measures performance against strategic goals and objectives, ensuring alignment between IT and business.

Addresses performance within business capabilities and value streams, using KPIs to track business outcomes.

Orthogramic includes Performance as a separate, dedicated domain.

Security Architecture

Dedicated: Focuses on ensuring systems and data security across all IT components.

BIZBOK doesn’t explicitly include a security architecture domain; security considerations are often part of initiatives and capabilities.

Regulatory Compliance

Dedicated: A strong focus, particularly in ensuring compliance with federal regulations.

Not a dedicated domain, though regulatory considerations may be integrated into initiatives and business processes.

Strategy

Indirectly addressed through business and performance architectures.

Dedicated: Defining how business strategy is aligned with operational and organizational capabilities.

Capabilities

Not explicitly detailed; covered under business architecture.

Dedicated: Focusing on how business capabilities support strategy and value creation.

Value Streams

Not covered as a separate domain.

Dedicated: Defining the end-to-end flow of activities that deliver value to customers.

Stakeholders

Addressed under business architecture.

Dedicated: Identifying stakeholders and their relationships with business capabilities and value streams.

Initiatives

Addressed indirectly through performance architecture.

Dedicated: Emphasis on business projects and initiatives that drive strategic objectives.

Information

Addressed in data architecture.

Dedicated: Focusing on how information supports business operations and decision-making.

Policy

Often covered within business or regulatory compliance, ensuring IT policies align with government requirements.

Policy is part of the governance considerations but not a standalone domain; it is linked to organizational rules and operational controls.

Orthogramic includes Performance as a separate, dedicated domain.

Organization

Indirectly addressed within business architecture and stakeholder relationships.

Dedicated: focusing on how the structure, roles, and relationships within an organization impact its operations and strategy.

Product

Not explicitly addressed from a product perspective; focus is more on service delivery in government.

Dedicated: Emphasis on product ( and services) management, product lifecycle, and how products deliver value in conjunction with capabilities and value streams.