The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

What is The Open Group?

The Open Group is a vendor and technology neutral consortium. Its vision of Boundaryless Information Flow? is about access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.

What is TOGAF?

The Open Group defines TOGAF as a framework - a detailed method and a set of supporting tools for developing IT and Enterprise Architecture.

There are many architecture frameworks, but TOGAF is unique in containing a method for developing architecture - the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM). The ADM can be used with other popular frameworks and so we might call it framework-agnostic.

TOGAF is the result of best practice, as gathered by The Open Group's Architecture Forum. Consequently, TOGAF's great strength is that it is non-proprietary and free to use. However, this does mean that architects need to customise and tailor TOGAF to their organisation's specific needs.

TOGAF has been refined over the years and the latest version published is TOGAF 8.1. TOGAF 9 is currently under development.

The four main parts of TOGAF 8.1

1. Introduction: This provides a high-level introduction to some of the key concepts behind enterprise architecture and in particular the TOGAF approach.

2. Architecture Development Method: This is the core of TOGAF. It describes the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - a step-by-step approach to developing an enterprise architecture.

3. Enterprise Continuum: This describes the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum, a virtual repository of architecture assets, which includes the TOGAF Foundation Architecture, and the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM).

4. Resources: This comprises the TOGAF Resource Base - a set of tools and techniques available for use in applying TOGAF and the TOGAF ADM.

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The Open Group

The Open Group's website carries a great deal of information about TOGAF - see http://www.opengroup.org.

Specific pages of interest are