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Information FrameWork (IFW) is an enterprise architecture framework, populated with a comprehensive set of banking specific business models. It was developed as an alternative to the Zachman Framework by Roger Evernden.〔(Information FrameWork ), ''Systems Journal'' article, Roger Evernden〕〔Rik Maes. ''(A generic framework for information management ).'' Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Accountancy & Information Management, 1999.〕〔Greefhorst, Danny, Henk Koning, and Hans van Vliet. "The many faces of architectural descriptions." Information Systems Frontiers 8.2 (2006): 103-113.〕 The banking specific business models represent good practice in banking and is a natural extension to the Component Business Model. Once you have started down the path of transforming to an On Demand Business and have identified components for your business, the IFW business models provide the banking specific business content that can accelerate your resultant IT projects. == Overview == The IFW business models describe the business of the bank and are an efficient communication bridge between business and technology communities. They are designed to be readily accessible to business users and focus on industry issues in areas such as Customer Insight, Multi-Channel Transformation, Core Systems and Risk & Compliance. The IFW comprises: * Information Models: providing banking data content to address areas such as enterprise-wide view of information * Process Models: providing banking business processes content to address areas such as business process reengineering * Integration Models: providing business services content to address areas such as services oriented architectures The IFW business models typically support over 80% of business requirements and can be easily customized and extended to cover the specific requirements of a bank. The IFW business models will assist a bank in implementing a flexible, reusable, extensible and easily customizable architecture, which in turn will enable the bank to: * Be more adaptive and to respond quickly to changing customer needs * Focus on achieving competitive differentiation * Identify and leverage best practice behaviors across the organization In its conception, the IFW was an enterprise architecture framework created as an alternative to the Zachman Framework.〔 In 1987 John Zachman proposed the Zachman Framework to describe Information Architecture with the six concepts: The ''what'' related to data, ''how'' related to process, ''where'' related to network and location, ''who'' related to actors and people, ''when'' related to time, and at last ''why'' related to motivation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Information Framework」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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