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The Zachman Framework is an established enterprise architecture taxonomy for organizing and analyzing enterprise artifacts. It maps stakeholder perspectives (e.g., Planner, Owner, Designer) against descriptive dimensions in a matrix to clarify consistency, responsibilities, and integration points. It serves as a guide for governance, architectural decision-m…
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What organizes, connects, or makes decisions possible.
The Zachman Framework organizes architecture artifacts by fundamental questions and viewpoints so that different descriptions of an enterprise fit together.
John Zachman published the framework at IBM in 1987 as a schema for information-systems architectures; the Zachman International Foundation continues it as an ontology built around What, How, Where, Who, When, and Why.
Classify each artifact by question and viewpoint, check the cells for completeness, and keep business, logical, and technical descriptions distinct.
A stakeholder’s perspective, such as planner, owner, or technical implementer.
A fundamental question such as What, How, Where, Who, When, or Why structuring a description.
The combination of a question and viewpoint used to classify an artifact.
The framework reveals which architecture decisions are described, whose view they represent, and which important perspectives are missing.
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These sources establish the term and its professional meaning.
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The level within the organization (enterprise, domain, team) at which the AssetBlock is applied.