The Zachman Framework is a framework for Enterprise Architecture which provides a formal and highly structured way of defining an enterprise. It uses a two dimensional classification model based around the 6 basic communication interrogatives (What, How, Where, Who, When, and Why) intersecting 6 distinct model types which relate to stakeholder groups (Visionary, Owner, Designer, Builder, Implementer and Worker) to give a holistic view of the enterprise which is being modeled.
Often used as part of a systems architecture or enterprise level technology review exercise it is popular within IT architecture departments but has little hold of either the developer or user communities. The Enterprise Architecture can readily evaluate a firm's software architecture.
Originally conceived by John Zachman at IBM in the 1980’s, the framework is now a de facto world standard for expressing the basic elements of an Enterprise Architecture. Originally the full technical name is Zachman Framework for Information Systems Architecture and was changed in the early 90's to The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture.
All requirements were visualized and can be used throughout the Corporate Modeler toolset and can be easily customized to your organizational environment. Because of our extensibility you are free to add your own Audit question and controls and cross reference them with the modeled requirements, with your own processes or you can use the pre defined ITIL process model and get the cross references out of the box.
As part of our Casewise tool set you will be able to schedule audit questions and controls in order to perform internal checks/audits or just performed simple assessments. Based on this data you will be able to communicate the results via our HTML Portal within different Dashboard or list views. This data can also be maintained (create, delete, update) via the Portal (web front end).