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Certified Enterprise Architect Professional (CEAP) - Module 12: The Enterprise Continuum

The Enterprise Continuum is a framework that classifies all the assets available to an enterprise, and helps to organize and communicate them.

The Enterprise Continuum includes assets like business goals, strategic initiatives, capabilities, policies, standards, and principles. It also includes assets from the wider environment, such as products, research, market factors, and legislation.

It helps:

  1. categorising architecture and solution artefacts.
  2. structuring of virtual repositories.
  3. improves the efficiency of engineering.
  4. helps organise reusable architecture and solution assets.
  5. visual repository for all architecture assets

Two concepts combine to create the Enterprise Continuum:

1)Solutions Continuum 
The assets included in an Enterprise Continuum are determined by the architecture governance function.
2)Architecture Continuum
Practically, the application of an Enterprise Continuum occurs through an Architecture Repository.

In the context of an Enterprise Continuum, "COTS products" refers to commercially available, off-the-shelf software or hardware components that an organization can readily purchase and integrate into their systems, essentially pre-built solutions from the market that can be used without extensive customization, as opposed to developing custom solutions from scratch; within the Enterprise Continuum, these COTS products are considered as readily accessible building blocks that can be leveraged to construct a wider enterprise architecture, allowing for faster implementation and cost-efficiency by utilizing existing, proven technology.

Example of COTS in the Enterprise Continuum:
  1. An organization building a new e-commerce platform might choose to use a COTS shopping cart application to handle online transactions instead of developing one from scratch.
  2. A company looking to implement a project management system could evaluate various COTS options like Asana or Jira or Microsoft Office Suite or Windows Operating System or Standard network security solutions to find the best fit for their needs. 

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