[¤2] Preface

[¤3] Welcome     Structure    Navigation     Downloads

[¤4] Welcome to TOGAF - The Open Group Architectural Framework.

[¤5] TOGAF is a framework - a detailed method and a set of supporting tools - for developing an enterprise architecture. It is described in a set of documentation published by The Open Group on its public web server, and may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop an enterprise architecture for use within that organization. (See specific conditions of use.)

[¤6] TOGAF was developed by The Open Group's own members, working within the Architecture Forum. The original development of TOGAF Version 1 in 1995 was based on the Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM), developed by the US Department of Defense. The DoD gave The Open Group explicit permission and encouragement to create TOGAF by building on the TAFIM, which itself was the result of many years of development effort and many millions of dollars of U.S. government investment.

[¤7] Starting from this sound foundation, the members of The Open Group's Architecture Forum have developed successive versions of TOGAF each year and published each one on The Open Group's public web site.

[¤8] If you are new to the field of enterprise architecture and/or TOGAF, you may find it worthwhile to read the set of Frequently Asked Questions, where you will find answers to questions such as:

• [¤9] What is an architectural framework?
• [¤10] What kind of "architecture" are we talking about?
• [¤11] How does my organization benefit from using TOGAF?

[¤12] The Structure of the TOGAF Document

[¤13] There are four main parts to the TOGAF document.

• (a_bodor) Remove ''dashed' IT' from the title line
  [¤14] PART I: Introduction (this Part) provides a high-level introduction to some of the key concepts behind IT enterprise architecture and in particular the TOGAF approach.

• [¤15] PART II: Architecture Development Method  is the core of TOGAF. It describes the TOGAF Architecture Development Method - a step-by-step approach to developing an enterprise architecture.

• [¤16] PART III: Enterprise Continuum describes the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum, a virtual repository of architecture assets, which includes the TOGAF Foundation Architecture, and the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model.

• [¤17] PART IV: Resources comprises the TOGAF Resource Base - a set of tools and techniques available for use in applying TOGAF and the TOGAF ADM.

[¤18] Navigation

[¤19] The TOGAF document set is designed for use with frames. To navigate around the document:

• [¤20] In the main Contents frame at the top of the page, click the relevant hyperlink (PART I, PART II, etc.) to load the Contents List for that Part of the TOGAF document into the Secondary Index frame in the left margin.

• [¤21] Then click in that Contents List to load a page into this main frame.

• [¤22] Where an entry in a Contents List has the prefix (Index to), that hyperlink will load a sub-contents list into the Secondary Index frame.

(j_jiang) Af for version 8
[¤23] Downloads

(xia_li) No Change
(j_spencer) (On behalf of Tony Carrato, IBM:) The ability to grab TOGAF as a single PDF file, for printing, would be very useful.
(w_stahlecker) No additional editing request to the document per se. We have a range of potential audiences for TOGAF with preferences ranging from on-line eading to paper-bound. While TOGAF was an early example of web-navigable documents in The Open Group, the mode of navigation was not evolved very much. So there seems to be a need to improve TOGAF for on-liners and paper-feeders. I suggest this as a work item for 2003.
[¤24] Downloads of the TOGAF documentation are available under license from the TOGAF information web site. The license is free to any organization wishing to use TOGAF entirely for internal purposes (for example, to develop an information system architecture for use within that organization).

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