Thesaurus

Service Oriented Architecture

Architecture of an IT system structured as a group of constituents providing services >>

Sharing Principle

Principle according to which the business objects that concern several actors, activities or processes in the system are pooled in “repositories” accessible to all >>

Signal

Manifestation of an event >>

SLA

Service Level Agreement >>

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture

Software Aspect

Describes the software components which automate some of the actions of the Information System >>

Software Data

Data expressed in such a form that they can be processed by computers >>

SPEM

Software Process Engineering Metamodel >>

State Diagram

UML diagram which picks up the different representation of state machine or automatons >>

State Machine

Micro-machine, managing its internal state and supplying services, in certain operative conditions >>

Stratification

First decomposition level of the logical aspect >>

Stratum

Part of a technical system, isolated at the logical level, so that it reflects an aspect >>

System

Set made up of interdependent elements which, as a whole, presents its own particular identity and behaviors >>

Target

Aspirational state of the future Enterprise System >>

Technical Architecture

Architecture discipline interested in the logistic aspect of a system, setting the technical choices within >>

Technical Aspect

Aspect made up of technology choices and ways of implementing them >>

Technical System

Terminology

Set of technical words or expressions used in a particular subject >>

Textual Analysis

Mechanical exploitation of the texts collected to supply modeling >>

TOGAF

The Open Group Architecture Framework >>