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Enterprise architecture frameworks are valuable for planning and visualization. They are especially helpful in the early stages of architectural change to lead the conversation with stakeholders and visualize the outcomes of the business and IT alignment. Both TOGAF and Zachman Framework are the most popular EA framework and widely adopted by people. Now, let\u2019s review the main differences between these two most widely-used EA frameworks.<\/p>\n
TOGAF \u00ae , introduced by The Open Group , is a proven enterprise architecture methodology and framework used by the world\u2019s leading organizations to improve business efficiency. It is an enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals, so that we can conduct our enterprise architecture work in a better way, including:<\/p>\n
First published in 1995, TOGAF was based on the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM) . From this foundation, The Open Group Architecture Forum has developed successive versions of TOGAF at regular intervals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.\u201d TOGAF embraces and extends this definition. In TOGAF, \u201carchitecture\u201d has two meanings depending upon the context:<\/p>\n
The key to TOGAF remains a reliable, practical method \u2013 the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) \u2013 for defining business needs and developing an architecture that meets those needs, utilizing the elements of TOGAF and other architectural assets available to the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"