SOA Governance

AGlossary

ACORD

Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) is the insurance industry’s nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML, and electronic commerce in the United States and abroad.

Architectural decision

Documented decisions about any aspect of the architecture, including the structure of the system, the provision and allocation of function, the contextual fitness of the system, and adherence to standards.

Architecture principle

Underlying guidelines that hold true across the architecture of multiple systems. These guidelines define the essence of the architecture by capturing the thinking behind it, and they provide a decision framework that enables the process ...