Time Machine. A conceptual time machine is characteristically associated with time and calendar
scheduling of imperative business and technological missions. More specifically, this
architectural concept describes technological capabilities that chiefly center on three major timekeeping
responsibilities (depicted in Exhibit 15.15):
??? History recording, such as archiving vital organizational records, booking business transactions,
saving revenue and expenditure records, keeping market data index and financial
information, and business statements
??? Tracking calendar events, such as execution of planned transactions and processing scheduled
business and technical events
??? Depicting monitoring activities and audit trail operations to ensure enforcement of servicelevel
agreements (SLA) in terms of timely execution of stipulated service offerings and
consumer consumption restrictions
History
Recording
Time Machine
Event
Scheduling
Event
Monitoring
EXHIBIT 15.15 TIME MACHINE CAPABILITIES
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Data Conversion
Transformation Machine
Protocol
Conversion
Operation
Translation
EXHIBIT 15.16 TRANSFORMATION MACHINE CAPABILITIES
Transformation Machine. Distributed and interoperable computing environments often exhibit
incompatibility between operating systems, communication protocols, data formats, and even data
schemas. Therefore, transformation activities that fill in these communication gaps are commonplace
in today??™s technological environments.
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