the hardware, software and network structure that will confine and facilitate automated business functions and inter-company and intra-company data flows.

shows the technology enablers and their inter-relationships

The physical structure or design of a computer system and its components. It can be a reference model, such as the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model, or it can be a specific product architecture, such as the Intel Pentium microprocessor.

a tool for senior management to identify and define the companies applications portfolio