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Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

You're reading from   Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture Design a mature enterprise architecture repository using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and ArchiMate® 3.1

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076166
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joe Williams Joe Williams
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Mudar Bahri Mudar Bahri
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Enterprise Architecture with Sparx Enterprise Architect
2. Chapter 1: Enterprise Architecture and Its Practicality FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introducing the Practice Scenarios 4. Section 2: Building the Enterprise Architecture Repository
5. Chapter 3: Kick-Starting Your Enterprise Architecture Repository 6. Chapter 4: Maintaining Quality and Consistency in the Repository 7. Chapter 5: Advanced Application Architecture Modeling 8. Chapter 6: Modeling in the Technology Layer 9. Chapter 7: Enterprise-Level Technology Architecture Models 10. Chapter 8: Business Architecture Models 11. Chapter 9: Modeling Strategy and Implementation 12. Section 3: Managing the Repository
13. Chapter 10: Operating the EA Repository 14. Chapter 11: Publishing Model Content 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the technology components catalog

To address the CTO's concerns about redundant and unused technology, we need information in our repository for all equipment at ABC Trading. From the repository, we will identify the services provided by each technology. Where two or more technologies provide the same service, we have a potential duplicate. We can then analyze the usage of each technology to determine whether we might be able to eliminate one of them. First, let's look at what the technology components catalog is.

Defining the technology components catalog

Simply put, the technology components catalog is a list of all hardware, system software, and equipment in use at ABC Trading. Examples of hardware include servers, storage devices, networking devices, and so on. Examples of equipment include server racks, coolers, humidifiers, sensors, and much more.

System software includes such things as operating systems, database software, storage or backup systems...

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