http://peertopatent.org/patent/275/prior_art/list This disclosure describes sets of systems and tools that drive complex enterprise execution logic top to bottom, end to end and site to site through the discrete execution and control of ten levels of mission-critical enterprise structure: 1. Execution logic: drive operations end to end, top to bottom, site to site 2. Rules: govern a process step execution 3. Information: track states of enterprise objects or go/no decisions 4. Data: capture and use measurements or events 5. Specifications: guide operation for particular programs 6. Templates: prepackage execution logic models 7. Identification: name critical enterprise resources for common management 8. Users: represent the extended enterprise community 9. Services: provide physical or logical procedures, functions, modifications or measurements 10. Controls: monitor, evaluate and control named material at specific process steps The ten-level enterprise architecture provides effective and efficient tools for executing complex globally collaborative enterprise processes. en-us Ten-level enterprise architecture systems and tools Title: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics <br/>Description: The granddaddy of all computer systems architecture and this Redbook does and excellent job of discribing it. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:06:46 -0800 http://peertopatent.org/prior_art/639/detail Ten-level enterprise architecture systems and tools Title: &quot;A framework for information systems architecture&quot; in IBM Systems Journal<br/>ISBN: <br/>Description: A framework for enterprise architecture that was initially published in 1987 and is of general applicability to all sorts of enterprise systems. Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:12:43 -0800 http://peertopatent.org/prior_art/637/detail