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17 results for “Capability Mapping”

Terminology · 12
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Capability Map

A structured view of everything a business does, used as the stable frame for mapping applications, investment, ownership and gaps.

Enterprise Architecture
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Business Capability

What a business does, expressed stably and independently of how it currently does it or who is responsible.

Business Architecture
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Booking.com's Experimentation Platform

Booking.com runs over a thousand concurrent experiments and treats the ability to test any change safely as a platform capability rather than a product feature.

Business Architecture
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Build vs Buy

The choice between developing a capability in-house and acquiring it, decided on differentiation and total cost rather than on feature lists.

Architecture Decision-Making
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Disaster Recovery

The plan and capability for restoring service after an event that takes out a whole site, region or system.

Reliability & Resilience
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Managed Service

A capability the provider operates — provisioning, patching, backup, scaling and failover — leaving you the configuration and the data.

Cloud Architecture
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Microservices

An architectural style where an application is a set of independently deployable services, each owning its data and aligned to a business capability.

Software Architecture
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Strangler Facade

The routing layer in front of a legacy system that decides, per capability, whether a request goes to the old implementation or the new one.

Strangler Fig
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Terraform State

The file mapping declared resources to real infrastructure, without which the tool cannot tell what it already created — and which becomes critical infrastructure in its own right.

Infrastructure as Code
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Time to Market

How long it takes to get a capability in front of customers — often the constraint that dominates every other architectural quality.

Business Architecture
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Tokenisation

Replacing a sensitive value with a non-sensitive surrogate, with the mapping held in one tightly-controlled vault.

Security Architecture
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Total Cost of Ownership

The full lifetime cost of a capability, including the people, operations, upgrades and exit that a licence comparison leaves out.

Cost & FinOps