Holding each tenant's custom structures as metadata rows over one shared physical schema, so that customisation needs no DDL and one upgrade reaches …

Enterprise Architecture

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Enterprise Architecture

General material on architecture at portfolio and estate scale.

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EA Domains

Business, application, data and technology architecture as viewpoints.

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Technology Architecture

Platforms, runtimes and infrastructure standards across the estate.

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Capability Maps in EA

The stable frame for hanging investment, ownership and health off.

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Application Portfolio Management

Inventory, ownership, cost and health for every application.

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Application Rationalisation

Retire, consolidate, replatform — and why retirement is under-applied.

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Technology Standards

Guidance that teams follow because it helps, not because it is mandated.

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Technology Radar

Adopt, trial, assess and hold — with movement, dates and owners.

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Reference Architectures

Pre-approved templates for recurring solution shapes.

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Architecture Governance

Preventive, automated controls rather than review meetings.

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Architecture Review Boards

Thresholds, early engagement and a real route to accept deviation.

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Enterprise Integration

Estate-wide integration strategy, standards and shared infrastructure.

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TOGAF

The ADM as a checklist, tailored rather than followed literally.

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EA Frameworks

Zachman, FEAF and others — vocabulary rather than method.

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Architecture Roadmaps

Sequencing change across an estate with dependencies and funding.

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Paved Roads

Making the supported path the easiest path, with a way to leave it.

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Platform Teams

Reducing other teams' cognitive load, measured by adoption.

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InnerSource

Open-source collaboration practices applied inside an organisation.

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EA Metrics

Measuring whether architecture work changed anything.

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Application Architecture

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You inherit an estate of 300 applications. What do you record about each and what decision does it support?

A global employment platform must handle country-specific rules that differ in every dimension. How should the architecture accommodate that variation?

An enterprise platform serving many countries keeps hitting jurisdiction-specific rules - different approval chains, retention periods, mandatory fields and tax treatments - that vary independently of each other. Which accommodation holds up as the number of jurisdictions grows?

An enterprise platform's application architecture must serve tenants ranging from small businesses to very large enterprises. Should one architecture serve all of them?

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