Provisioning the Application

Provisioning is the third building block of the application layer functional architecture.

Provision To take a component, or series of components, to a higher level of functionality. Provisioning is specific to the application layer.

—Typically involves installing application packages on top of the operating system infrastructure to provide business services.

Because of its frequent use, it is important to clearly define application-level provisioning as a separate building block in the architecture. The context of applications and services is the key value component of provisioning at this layer of the architecture. ...

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