The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition — Introduction and Core Concepts – 2025 Update

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Introduction and Core Concepts

2025 Update

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The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition — Introduction and Core Concepts

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Published by The Open Group, June 2025

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Table of Contents

Preface

The Open Group

The TOGAF® Standard

The TOGAF Documentation

This Document

Intended Audience

Trademarks

Participants

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1. Executive Overview

1.2. Structure of this Document

1.3. Information on Using the TOGAF Standard

1.3.1. Conditions of Use

1.3.2. How Much Does the TOGAF Standard Cost?

1.3.3. Downloads

1.4. Why Join The Open Group?

2. The TOGAF Documentation Set

2.1. Structure of the TOGAF Documentation Set

2.1.1. The TOGAF Standard

2.1.2. The TOGAF Library

2.2. The TOGAF Standard

2.3. The TOGAF Library

3. Core Concepts

3.1. What is the TOGAF Standard?

3.2. What is Architecture in the Context of the TOGAF Standard?

3.3. What Kind of Architecture Does the TOGAF Standard Deal With?

3.4. Architecture Development Method

3.5. Enterprise Architecture Services

3.5.1. Enterprise Support Services

3.5.2. Design Support Services

3.5.3. Development Support Services

3.5.4. Requirements Elicitation and Understanding Services

3.5.5. Architecture Planning Services

3.5.6. Enterprise Architecture Practice Development Support Services

3.6. Deliverables, Artifacts, and Building Blocks

3.7. Architecture Abstraction

3.7.1. Contextual Abstraction Level

3.7.2. Conceptual Abstraction Level

3.7.3. Logical Abstraction Level

3.7.4. Physical Abstraction Level

3.8. Architecture Principles

3.9. Interoperability

3.10. Enterprise Continuum

3.10.1. Architecture Repository

3.11. TOGAF Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel

3.11.1. Overview

3.11.2. Content Framework

3.11.3. Enterprise Metamodel

3.11.4. Developing the Enterprise Metamodel

3.12. Establishing and Maintaining an Enterprise Architecture Capability

3.13. Establishing the Architecture Capability as an Operational Entity

3.14. Using the TOGAF Standard with Other Frameworks

3.15. Using the TOGAF Framework with Different Architecture Styles

3.16. Architecture Views and Viewpoints

3.17. Enterprise Agility

3.18. Risk Management

4. Definitions

4.1. Abstraction

4.2. Actor

4.3. Application Architecture

4.4. Application Component

4.5. Application Platform

4.6. Application Service

4.7. Architectural Style

4.8. Architecture

4.9. Architecture Building Block (ABB)

4.10. Architecture Continuum

4.11. Architecture Development Method (ADM)

4.12. Architecture Domain

4.13. Architecture Framework

4.14. Architecture Governance

4.15. Architecture Landscape

4.16. Architecture Level

4.17. Architecture Model

4.18. Architecture Partition

4.19. Architecture Principle

4.20. Architecture View

4.21. Architecture Viewpoint

4.22. Architecture Vision

4.23. Artifact

4.24. Baseline

4.25. Boundaryless Information Flow™

4.26. Building Block

4.27. Business Architecture

4.28. Business Capability

4.29. Business Function

4.30. Business Governance

4.31. Business Model

4.32. Business Service

4.33. Capability

4.34. Capability Architecture

4.35. Capability Increment

4.36. Communications and Stakeholder Management

4.37. Concern

4.38. Course of Action

4.39. Data Architecture

4.40. Deliverable

4.41. Digital Architecture

4.42. EA Landscape

4.43. Enterprise

4.44. Enterprise Architecture Service

4.45. Enterprise Continuum

4.46. Foundation Architecture

4.47. Framework

4.48. Gap

4.49. Governance

4.50. Information

4.51. Information Technology (IT)

4.52. Interoperability

4.53. Logical

4.54.