Several other constructs are commonly mistaken as EA frameworks or discussed as if they were frameworks, or act as special purpose frameworks:
--OMB EAAF or Enterprise Architecture Assesment Framework measures how well you are doing EA in the federal government. --GAO EAMMF or Enterprise Architecture Management Maturity Framework measures how well you are managing your EA program in the federal government. --FEA refers to the government wide enterprise architecture program, and the set of taxonomies (categorization) used to compare apples to apples in government architecture efforts. For an associated framework see FEAF. --ITIL is a taxonomy (categorization) system for commercial use. --RUP is a process for software architecture (implementation level). --SEI-CMM is a measure of the maturity of your software processes or lifecycle, and it ventures to also address solutions (systems) architecture. --INCOSE system lifecycle is a process for solution architecture or system engineering lifecycle. --SOA or Service Oriented Architecture is a software inplementation framework, like COM, COM+, DCOM or CORBA- but perhaps less well defined. --SCBA or Service Component Based Architecture is a government take on SOA emphasizing the larger granularity of services needed for increased ROI. --BPEL is a language for expressing business process execution at the solutions level. this is more detailed, and has less abstraction than IDEF 0, and BPEL is therefore less suited to application at the the segment level.
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