From the course: Enterprise Architecture Foundations
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Zachman
- Information systems are based on abstract ideas, the business drivers that decide which systems to build, the architectural practices used to design systems, and the patterns used to build the software. All intangible, abstract concepts. Even the systems themselves, after they're built, are abstract. You can point to an oil rig or a steel mill and see the moving parts, how they create useful goods from raw material. Not so with an IT system. You can stare at a server as long as you like, you won't learn anything about the software its running or how that software was built. So then, the question is, how do business people, architects, software developers, anyone work with these abstractions to create something valuable? Well, they create a system to categorize and organize the ideas. When you organize ideas into a set of related buckets, you can describe the relationships between those ideas. Then you can develop a common language to communicate about them. Information science…
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