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ITP Information Architecture

The ITP Information Architecture describes the way an organization and/or project should look at ITP and ITP related activities. It describes ITP in terms of five different layers with two additional topics that have a potential relationship to the five layers.

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The five layers from bottom to top are:

  • Integration: all components and activities related to integrating ITP with business applications and generic middleware applications/components.
  • Process: all components and activities related to processing ITP “jobs”. Parameters and data from the integration layer will be processed and used to perform specific document centric tasks such as document generation, document conversion (.doc to .pdf), printing documents, e-mail documents as attachments, etc. Thus also driving distribution of documents.
  • Data: all components and activities related to defining the data interface between ITP context and the business application context.
  • Template: all components and activities related to templates (or in ITP terms models). This includes document frameworks, corporate identity definitions, re-usable document logic (assuming no business logic in ITP) etc.
  • Content: all components and activities related to the elements of documents and templates (collectively called content) that should primarily be maintainable by the business. Think about Text Blocks, Forms (for interactive document generation) and Content Wizards (describing document structure in terms of optional/mandatory text blocks and groups of text blocks). The activities and components in the template layer should maintenance by the business.

Presentation covers all presentation related activities and components such as corporate identity for both documents and web sites (for interactive document generation). Finally Distribution covers all activities and components related to the distribition of documents. Primarily driven by the process layer, it also related to the other layers (which, for example, have to provide the information for distribution).