The diversity and complexity involved

The enterprise landscape involves different types of applications with variable characteristics across the Systems of Innovation, Systems of Differentiation, and Systems of Record layers, as categorized in Gartner’s pace layered architecture. These variations can be classified under two categories:

• Application architecture
• Infrastructure architecture

Let’s take a look.

Application architecture

The application architecture differs from monolithic applications in Systems of Record to the cloud-native microservices architecture and functions in the Systems of Innovation layers. We’ll look at the application architecture’s characteristics and goals across these layers in this section.

Systems of Record

Systems of Record acts as the single source of truth for an organization’s core business data and processes. Applications in the Systems of Record layer are typically built with traditional...