Similarly,
a great deal about an organization??™s strategy and business initiatives can be learned by inspecting
its architecture taxonomy, which essentially is the organizational architecture portfolio. Moreover,
this portfolio solution can enable effective management of architectural assets, assist with return
on investment assessments, and enhance the alignment of business and IT organizations.
This architecture cataloging offers a mechanism to graphically present associations between
business and actual IT architecture artifacts as well as to inspect architecture alignment perspectives
between these two organizations. In addition, the business architecture perspective taxonomy
can come in handy when it is time to integrate services in production environments. It offers a
directory that describes the organization??™s technical architecture landscape. That is, this taxonomy
offers knowledge about the business and technology environments service integration activities
being pursued.
The taxonomy model should be composed of root levels and descending levels. The root
level of the taxonomy should always depict the business architecture perspectives offered in
this chapter or the ones that may be proposed by an organization. Subsequent levels should
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