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The EA Content Metamodel defines every component within NORA's six domains: business, beneficiary experience, data, applications, technology, and security. It is the basis for documenting the entity's EA and for building the viewpoints that present those components.
Business Capability, Organizational Unit, Processes Group, Service, Business Process, Position, Policy, Role, Activity, Product.
Beneficiary, Beneficiary Journey, Persona, Stage, Step.
Data Entity together with its attributes and the relationships that support services, business processes, and business capabilities.
Application, Application Component, Integration Interface, with their relationships to business capabilities, services, and data entities.
Data Center, Physical Host, Server, Containerization Engine, Network Device, Network Link, Storage, Infrastructure Service, Infrastructure Tool, Peripheral, License.
Security Hardware, Security Software, Security Service, with their relationships to technology, application, and data architecture components.
Provides one reference for the components of each of the six EA domains, and is the basis from which the six national reference models derive.
Cuts the time it takes to identify the components needed to document the current state and design the target state during the development cycle.
Keeps relationships clear within a domain and across domains, so connected viewpoints can be built at the right level of detail.
Drives the configuration of the EA tools the entity adopts, so the data structures inside those tools match the national methodology.
The metamodel is a reference; the entity's EA team has the authority to add, modify, or remove components in line with how the entity actually works and what it is trying to achieve.
Define each component once and place it in the correct domain, so the same definition is not duplicated across domains.
When designing EA viewpoints, check that all components and relationships needed to deliver the viewpoint at the level stakeholders need are in place.
The EA function coordinates with related units in the entity such as organizational excellence, business process management, service design, policy and HR, among others.
