Introduction
The IT community acquires IT managment automation systems as separate tools such as EA managment tool, change management tools, configuration managment tools, project management tool, applicaiton development tools in a stove pipe approach without recognizing that IT managment is a line of business and the IT managment tools are actually the application systems to support IT managment business as shown in the following figure:OCIO Application architecture align application to OCIO business need, establish the framework of OCIO application systems, analyz the application system internal and external connectivities, design an integrated application architecture from holistic consideration.
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Background
The Mitre corporation, sponsored by the CIO council, has established the architecture tool framework
The tool assessment
The IT managment systems which are considered as the CIO applicaiton systems can be described in the following framework develope by Mitre corporation sponsored by the CIO Council
Management oversight tools The systems oversight tools include investment management, portfolio management , risk management , security management .project management , procurement management , performance measurement and decision support
EA management tools are used to organize and manage the EA artifacts. It contain the enterprise automation environment, the business architecture, the IT standards, the architecture design and the transition plan. EA artifact repository should not make redundant effort to contain system artifact.
System development management tools are used to manage the enterprise system development artifact which include the requirements, the system documents, the meta data model and software version control and release management.
Design tools are used to generate design artifacts such graphic tool, and business process modeling tools , data modeling tools, and Computer Aid Designing (CAD) application development tools. are used. In application development paradigm, application developers relies on modeling tools. The design tools are used to model business activities, analyze business processes models, perform function decomposition and design data models, create application components and produce software code .
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