Architecture

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According to ANSI/IEEE Standard 1471-2000 Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems.

Conceptually an IT Architecture is the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.

Practically it is represented in Architectural Descriptions from the viewpoints of the Stakeholders.