IT- architecture of corporation. What is it?

 In this article we will discuss most total characteristics of such concepts, as "the Architecture of information technologies" and "the firm Architecture".

The first task of handle is the choice of correct names... If names are incorrect, language will not correspond to the truth. If language does not correspond to the truth then things will not reach perfection. If things do not reach perfection ceremonies and music will not prosper. If ceremonies and music do not prosper, punishments will not be fair. If punishments are not fair, people will not know that it is necessary to do. Therefore, the chief should give only such names, which can be put into words, and order only that can be fulfilled in practice.

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Before to approach to the description of that such IT architecture to mark easier, that it is not. In particular, the architecture is not more or less confirmed list of suppliers and their products of type "We use server OS of MS Windows 2003, MS SQL DBMS, all the rest ON too from Microsoft, servers on a platform of Intel and telecommunication equipment Cisco". Creation of the standard list of suppliers and reduction of their quantity is only partial solution of a problem of "piecewise" information. According to Gartner, the approach to an architecture statement should be grounded on the analysis общекорпоративных processes and overestimation of the business processes and applications supporting them.

Many people, including business heads and professionals in the subject domains, consider, that they well understand technologies, that actually seldom corresponds to the validity. For the majority of bosses of IT Technology associate with the personal computer about which they know some base things. It, by the way, is one of the reasons why many of them happen are surprised, when it try to explain all complexity of the complex of handle IT. Some language which would allow to explain that it is really necessary for business heads to know. About technologies is necessary attempt to explain all in terms of gigabytes, network protocols and deepening in jungle IT bring not enough advantage. That it is necessary to understand, so it is base structure of IT architecture and why all units of this architecture are necessary.

Modern approaches to a formulation of concept of IT architecture are attempts to give such language, clear and useful simultaneously for a business manual and for experts in the field of IT.

On the other hand, representation about the firm architecture has the radicals in discipline, which has received the name "system thinking". The main object of studying of this discipline is the system when "whole makes something большее, than the mechanical sum of components, i.e. system possesses properties which are absent for units making it". Eberhardt Rechtin, whose citation has been just represented, is one of founders of this direction of thinking.

One remark that is more important consists in specification of concept "Firm". What do we mean, when we speak about firm in an architecture context? Actually, the majority of experts in the architecture and appropriate techniques of the description of the architecture treat this term floppy enough. It can be the organisation as a whole or one of its business divisions, or it can be some collection of firms or organizational units within the limits of a uniform chain of creation of additional cost. Thus, under the term "Firm" we hereinafter mean the formal association, which has been not without fail linked to commercial activity. It can be both the state organisation, and public, including informal, association of the participants linked by an overall aim. According to more common definition resulted in, Firm ". . Represents complex system of the cultural, technological and process components organized for reaching of the purposes of the company".

That is you can apply architectural approaches to the whole firm, division or even to the separate application system. All depends on level of consideration, degree «granularity» problems. You define for yourselves appropriate boundaries of consideration. The corporation architecture is one of tools of executive changes and all firm as a whole with usage IT, and especially that part of the organization which is responsible for information technologies. Gurus in the field of business mark, that, generally speaking, there are two main approaches to organizational changes.

The first approach is basing on restructuring, reengineering of processes, and the second is linking with handle of knowledge. By and large, the firm architecture is first of all handle of knowledge, i.e. process of collection and distribution of the information on how the organization uses and should use IT in the activity. Inclusion in the architecture of firm of representations about the business architecture provides link with possibilities of optimisation of business processes.

The firm architecture partially mentions also managerial processes IT in the organization. In this schedule it supplements effective enough techniques of the organisation and reorganisation of processes in IT Service, such as ITIL, COBIT and others.

Source of news: Danilin Alexander Valentinovich, Sljusarenko Andrey Ivanovich, Internet university of Information technologies, INTUIT.ru

Location of  news: Russia.  Articles is about IT architecture, firm architecture, IT Services,  ITIL, COBIT