Enterprisology

As used here, the term enterprisography refers to the techniques and tools used to capture and analyze information about enterprises.  This includes models and architectures of various dimensions of the business, but it also includes the large variety of ways that businesses and other enterprises capture information about themselves and their environments, strictly for the purposes of running the business.  We consider such representations as a simulation model of the supply chain, the firm's chart of accounts, an organization chart, a logical database design, a shop floor layout, etc. as forms of enterprisography.

The idea of views and viewpoints forms a framework for the presentation of "enterprisography" as defined here.  The list below consists of sample architectural views that provide entry points or purpose-oriented templates that organize segments of the underlying architecture of some enterprises.  This list changes and develops as useful views continue to be observed and/or innovated.  Several common subsections can be placed under each description (such as Purpose, Tools, Techniques, etc.)  Most of these subsections have something meaningful to read, but others are simply placeholders to indicate something could be said.  I have tried to keep the latter to a minimum, and those should all be marked as "placeholder".