Types of Architecture

Typically a big organization has multiple divisons/departments/businesses in it. There is a architecture applicable to organization as a whole to align the business strategy and IT investment. And then we have two more architectures, giving some more detail at each level. To me it looks like that it is intent and intended audience that decide what information goes into these architectures.


Enterprise Architecture could consist of four sub-architectures.



If you have some more hunger left for organizing the stuff a army of architects do at any company, read this interesting blog - Making sense of architecture standards.