The Dragon1 open EA Method provides you with an Enterprise Architecture Glossary (EA Glossary) containing over 350 defined terms, related to each other in a meta model. This page presents the top 50 most important ones.
Enterprise Architecture has created a complete language of its own.
Beneath, you'll find a list of dominant words the industry uses fully explained and illustrated.
Top 40 of Enterprise Architecture Terms and Definitions
- Architecture
- Architecture Framework
- Architecture Plateau
- Architecture Principle
- Architecture Visualization
- Assumption
- Business Architecture
- Building Block
- Business Rule
- Capability
- Concept
- Concern
- Data Architecture
- Deliverable
- Design
- Dragon1
- Eco System
- EA Method
- EA Tool
- Element
- Enterprise Architecture Framework
- Enterprise Architecture
- ERA
- GAP
- Information Architecture
- IT Architecture
- Layer
- Meta Model
- Model
- Pattern
- Project
- Reference Architecture
- Requirement
- Security Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Stakeholder
- Standard
- Style Element
- Structure
- System
- Technical Product
- User Model
- Values
- View
- Viewpoint
- Vision
- Work Package
- < suggest your term >
Enterprise Specific Entity Classes
The terms below are not specific architecture terms but are terms depicting an Entity Class that can be part of an enterprise or an eco-system
- Business Process
- Product
- Process
- Service
- Capability
- Application
- Module
- Objective
- Initiative
- Information Process
- Information System
- Standard
- Organization
- Enterprise
- Technology
- Business
- Model
- View
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Our intention is not to provide a complete dictionary on enterprise architecture on this page but to provide only the most frequently used terms in the field.
A criterium for a term to be in the Top 50 list is that it has domination in the field of science of EA, such as a standard, method, or architecting concept, and that the term is not a domain or system specific design entity, such as process or application.
We are very much interested in what you think the top 50 EA Terms are. Please send your comments and suggestions to specs@dragon1.com about this Enterprise Architecture Glossary. We will look at every suggestion seriously and respond as quickly as possible.
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