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Enterprise Architecture Template

A standard template for documenting an enterprise architecture.

A tier is a logical division of a complex application into layers. Each tier is a separate logical piece of the overall architecture. In large enterprise applications, each tier can run on a separate machine for security and reliability.

General enterprise architectural overview: client, common and data tiers over decoupled data sources, with security, monitoring, logging, archiving and auditing layers spanning every tier