Zachman International - The Official Home of The Zachman Framework™

Our preliminary 2010 course schedule has just been announced! We are finalizing several more dates and locations for the 2010 season and will post them just as soon as they come available.

 These course offerings are part of our Education Services. They are designed to introduce the foundations of The Zachman Framework™ in order to enable the management, implementation and training in Enterprise Architecture.

More importantly, these courses form the foundation for the education portion of the Zachman Certified™ program. Many organizations are now requiring applied knowledge of The Zachman Framework™ and legitimate, training certification- which is only available through Zachman International. For full details, see our Zachman Certified™ pages.

By: John A. Zachman

The Zachman Framework™ is a schema - the intersection between two historical classifications that have been in use for literally thousands of years. The first is the fundamentals of communication found in the primitive interrogatives: What, How, When, Who, Where, and Why. It is the integration of answers to these questions that enables the comprehensive, composite description of complex ideas. The second is derived from reification, the transformation of an abstract idea into an instantiation that was initially postulated by ancient Greek philosophers and is labeled in The Zachman Framework™: Identification, Definition, Representation, Specification, Configuration and Instantiation.

The Zachman Framework™ Evolution

The Zachman Framework™ has evolved over time. While the fundamental concepts have not changed at all, refinements to the graphical representation in addition to more precise language embody what The Framework has become today. Here is a brief trip down its historical evolution...