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Architecture

  • A framework or structure that portrays relationships among all the elements of the subject force, system, or activity.

Source: DoD Joint Pub 1-02

  • A set of design artifacts, or descriptive representations, that are relevant for describing an object such that it can be produced to requirements (quality) as well as maintained over the period of its useful life (change).

Source: John Zachman

  • Design; the way components fit together. May be conceived of any complex system such as "software architecture" or "network architecture" (Free On-line Dictionary of Computing). An IT architecture is a design for the arrangement and interoperation of technical components that together provide an organization its information and communication infrastructure.

Source: (ICH), found in the glossary of the Balanced Scorecard Institute - as reported in the FDA Governance Glossary