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A computer program or set of programs designed to automate a business process or deliver value to end users.

Refers to the structure and behavior of IT systems, processes, and infrastructure within an organization.

Configuration Management Database: a central repository that tracks every IT asset — applications, servers, licenses, cloud resources — and the relationships between them.

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Describes the path data takes from its original source to its destination point.

Enterprise Architecture Management: a strategic planning discipline to align business and IT landscapes.

Enterprise Resource Planning: software to manage and integrate important business processes.

The process of visually delineating an organization's IT infrastructure.

IT Service Management: the discipline of designing, delivering, operating and continuously improving IT services so they actually fit what the business needs.

A quantifiable measure used to evaluate success in achieving performance objectives.

The collection of software applications and software-based services available to a business.

A category of cloud computing services providing a platform for developing and running applications.

A strategy used in IT management to identify which applications should be kept, replaced, or consolidated.

Software-as-a-Service: a cloud software delivery model where a vendor hosts an application and sells access to it by subscription over the Internet.

IT systems, solutions, and activities carried out within an organization without IT department approval.

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The state in which an IT asset becomes outdated due to technological advances or end of life.

Total Cost of Ownership: the estimation of all costs associated with an IT asset throughout its lifecycle.

A model to classify applications: Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate.

The Open Group Architecture Framework: the most widely adopted methodology for designing, planning and governing enterprise architecture.