Data Fabric Architecture (High level)

AM 3.0 Generic template VERSION: AUTHOR: 2018/03/12 by Charles Edwards VERSION AUTHOR: 2018/05/10 by Charles Edwards

[01] External Interacting Parties

These are the range of external parties that supply data
to and access data from the enterprise.

External Party Business actor

[02] External Party Interaction Zones, Applications, Channels and Facilities

These are the set of applications and data interface and
[05] External Data Sensors
exchange points provided specifically to External Interacting Sources of remote data measurements.
Parties to allow them supply data to and access data from
the enterprise. These can be hosted internally or externally
External Party Application or a mix of both. External Data Sensors
interaction Application interaction

[04] External Third Party Applications [03] External Party Interaction Zones Data Stores [06] External Data Devices
These are third-party applications (such as social media platforms) These are applications and sets of data created by These are devices connected with services offered
that contain information about the enterprise or that are used the enterprise to be externally facing where by the enterprise (such as ATMs and Kiosks).
by the enterprise to present information to or interact with external parties can access information and interact
External 3rd Party External Interacting Parties or where the enterprise is referred to, External Party Data Stores with the enterprise. External Data Devices
affecting the perception or brand of the enterprise.
Applications Interaction Application collaboration Technology interaction

[07] Data Intake/Gateway

This is the set of facilities for handling data supplied
to the enterprise including validation and transformation
including a possible integration or service bus. This can
be hosted internally or externally or a mix of both.
Data Intake Gateway Application
collaboration

[10] Desktop Applications [08] Line of Business Applications [09] Line of Business Applications hosted outside the organisation
These are applications used by individual users to view and author documents. This represents the set of line of business applications This represents the set of line of business applications deployed on external
deployed on enterprise owned and managed infrastructure infrastructure used by business functions to operate their business processes This
used by business functions to operate their business includes cloud facilities such as external data storage and XaaS facilities and an
processes. integration service to connect external data to internal data
Line of Business Application Line of Business
Desktop Applications interaction Trusted Path
collaboration Application collaboration

[13] Document Centric Applications [11] Data Storage Platforms [12] External Application Operational Data Stores
Doc Management Systems - These are systems used to Operational Data Stores - These are the various operational These are the various operational data stores used by the Line of Business Applications
manage transactional and ad hoc structured and unstructured data stores used by the Line of Business Applications. used by Line of Business Applications Hosted Outside the Organisation.
documents in a formal and controlled manner, including
the metadata assigned to documents. Unstructured Data Stores - This provides structured access
Document Centric Applications Doc Sharing & Collaboration - These are tools used within to documents and information including externally hosted
collaboration the enterprise to share and collaborate on the authoring applications providing these facilities.
of documents.
Document and Information Portal - This provides Data Storage Platforms Data Storage Platforms
structured access to documents and information
including externally hosted applications providing
Application collaboration Trusted Path Application collaboration
these facilities.

[15] Data Reporting and Analysis Facilities [16] Data Mastering [14] Cloud Extension to Data Mastering, Reporting and Analysis Facilities
This represents the set of facilities to extract operational data from business These are facilities to create and manage master data and data extracted from These are facilities to create and manage master data and data extracted from
applications, create, store and manage reference and master data, create and store operational data to create a data warehouse and data extracts for reporting and operational data to create a data warehouse and data extracts for reporting and
enduring data and analyse the data including reporting, visualisation, mining and analysis. This includes an extract, transformation and load facility analysis. This includes an extract, transformation and load facility
modelling. These can be hosted internally or externally or a mix of both. These can be hosted internally or externally or a mix of both These can be hosted internally or externally or a mix of both

Data Reporting and Analysis Data Mastering Applications Data Mastering Data Reporting and Analysis
Applications collaboration collaboration Trusted Path Applications collaboration Applications collaboration

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