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Technology components are the basic building blocks of the enterprise technology architecture. For clarity and ease of use, technology components are grouped into logical domains.

Technology components are also grouped into implementation patterns that may combine components from multiple domains. These patterns are repeatable infrastructure functions that can be used by application services.

Technology components are also grouped into services that can be used as common functions to augment or replace code within a class of applications.

 

Enterprise Technology Architecture (ETA) Model Overview
The figure shows the relationships. Click on the links below to learn more.

  • Technology component is defined as the largest physical item, including hardware and software, used as part of a design and is purchasable as a product. The lowest level definition of the ETA is a Technology Component Catalog. 
     
  • Non-component technology element is a non-physical item used in the design and development of IT solutions. Examples of non-component technology elements include configurations, data model layouts, naming conventions, and application code standards.    Gartner
     
  • Domain is an organizing concept that groups individual component technologies and actual product by technology and organizational affinity - common domains include network, database, integration, etc.  (Click here to open the Domain catalogUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window)..) 
     
  • A Pattern model is designed to serve as the standard model for a set or class of applications that use the same — or highly similar — technology designs. 
     
  • Services are "infrastructure applications" that shift responsibility for certain services out of the application domain into the infrastructure domain; Services are a set of components implemented and reused as a single unit – Common services include security, data movement, Network connections etc.

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