Enterprise Architecture

Provides governance, principles, controls, standards, patterns, and architecture decisions that guide technology solutions across the University.

Categories (4)

Enterprise Standards

Defines mandatory requirements that solutions must meet to align with architecture controls and approved architecture decisions.

Architecture Decision Records

Captures significant architecture decisions, rationale, consequences, and governance considerations to provide traceability and support consistent decision-making.

Patterns

Approved implementation approaches that provide repeatable, supportable, and governed designs for implementing controls, standards, and decisions.

Articles (5)

DRAFT: Enterprise Architecture Framework

The Enterprise Architecture Framework provides a common way to connect business needs, regulatory requirements, architecture decisions, implementation standards, approved patterns, infrastructure products, and deployed solutions. It helps teams make consistent, supportable, and traceable technology decisions throughout the lifecycle of a solution.

DRAFT: HIPAA Hosting Standard

Defines the minimum requirements for hosting HIPAA workloads in University-managed Azure environments.

DRAFT: Enterprise Architecture Principles

Defines the enduring principles that guide technology strategy, architecture decisions, governance, engineering, and operations across the University. These principles provide a common foundation for developing Architecture Controls, Architecture Decision Records, Standards, Patterns, Products, and technology implementations while promoting alignment, security, reuse, visibility, resilience, supportability, and continuous improvement.

DRAFT: Architecture Controls

Defines the Architecture Controls that serve as the enduring architectural outcomes connecting business needs, regulatory requirements, policies, standards, decisions, patterns, products, and implementations within the Enterprise Architecture Framework.

Architecture Glossary

Provides a centralized reference of Enterprise Architecture terminology used across architecture controls, policies, standards, architecture decision records (ADRs), patterns, products, and implementation documentation.