So what are the most widespread technical architecture
types and patterns that support vital organizational business offerings? What are the typical needs
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Business Model Perspectives
Core Products Perspective
Segmentation Perspective
Mission Perspective
Cultural Perspective
Management Perspective
Process Perspective
EXHIBIT 9.2 BUSINESS MODEL PERSPECTIVE GROUP
of a core products technical architecture? Ultimately, the answers to these questions depend on
the company??™s business model and its products. But technical architectures that ought to enable
the execution of the company??™s most dominant systems must provide solid foundations to support
business transactions, sales, and distribution channels of goods. These are typically the backbone
technical architectures that provide steady and enduring frameworks and structures. Specifically,
enterprise core products are principally supported by technical architecture models that facilitate
system communications, data and content, data aggregation and transformation, middleware, and
infrastructure-enabling technologies.
Exhibit 9.3 illustrates an organizational business architecture core products perspective
along with associated technical architecture categories, which are explained in the sections that
follow. These technical architectures are: Layered Architectures, Distributed Architectures, and
Infrastructure and Middleware Architectures.
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