Special: Architecture comparison

The market today is snowed under with architecture models and frameworks. All major consultancy companies provide their own specific ones. Used by more and more organizations to analyze and blueprint their business and ICT.

HIT continuously researches and assimilates both frameworks and their applications into our products. Because of this the products adapt to most frameworks and models that are used in your organization. Not just in our architecture products, but in all our products. The translation from strategy through architecture and engineering into operations is way easier when the same perspectives are used. This makes it as well easier to make the transition from the business to the information to the technology and back.

In the research official publications and presentations of frameworks and cases are used. Of course this is not exhaustive. But down to a certain level of detail all frameworks sort of look at the same aspects. In other words, take the same perspectives to look at business and ICT. Usually in matrix-like grids, showing the aspects in relation to either abstractions or states. Our conclusion is that we all take the same perspectives to look at the world. Not a dazzling conclusion of course, because we all share the same world. But it takes out the magic that sometimes surrounds architecture. And that's important. Architecture has to be easy to understand by all of us. Only then businesses can turn it to profit.

Below you see a summarizing comparison of the used perspectives to address business and ICT aspects.

Comparison table

On the left in the table below you find the perspectives used in the strategy, architecture and engineering products of HIT. Next to that you see the similar perspectives or aspects that are used in the listed frameworks and models. The grey areas are not addressed to our knowledge. Whatever framework or model you may already use or like, it can quickly combined in the products of HIT.