NWFEA Project Glossary

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Architecture - A framework for classifying and organizing information. Viewing the framework reveals relationships between cataloged information.

Blueprint - Describes the current enterprise-wide business processes, information requirements, applications, and technology as well as the future desired state and a plan to move from the current state to the future state.

Capability - The combination of a business process, governance and resource required to produce a specific business service or product.

Enterprise - The people, organizations, processes, and technology that coordinate functions and share information to support a defined common scope and mission.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) - A framework that defines the business, the information needed to operate the business, the technologies that support business operations, and the transitional processes to respond to changing business needs. It provides a holistic view of an organization, and tracks connections between business and management processes and information technology.

Framework - A logical structure for classifying and organizing complex information.

Information Technology or IT - A collection of hardware, software, and services operated to accomplish a business function.

Methodology - A documented approach for performing activities in a coherent, consistent, accountable, and repeatable manner. (A method)

Model - A simulation that attempts to describe characteristics of relationships; often portrayed by schematic drawings.

Repository - A web-based storehouse used to store and access architectural information, relationships between the information elements, and work products.

Wildland fire community - The agencies having jurisdictional responsibility for fire management on public lands. The community includes federal agencies as well as state and local agencies.

Wildland fire enterprise - The organizations that work together to coordinate their processes and technology to support wildland fire management.