- The Enterprise Continuum is a view of the Architecture Repository that provides methods for classifying architecture and solution artefacts as they evolve from generic Foundation Architectures to Organization-Specific Architectures.
- The Enterprise Continuum comprises two complementary concepts:
---"Architecture Continuum"- offers a consistent way to define and understand the generic rules, representations, and relationships in an architecture, including traceability and derivation relationships (e.g., to show that an Organization-Specific Architecture is based on an industry or generic standard). Represents a structuring of Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
---"Solutions Continuum" -The Solutions Continuum provides a consistent way to describe and understand the implementation of the assets defined in the Architecture Continuum. The Solutions Continuum defines what is available in the organizational environment as re-usable Solution Building Blocks (SBBs).
- The Enterprise Continuum provides a view of the Architecture Repository that shows the evolution of these related architectures from generic to specific, from abstract to concrete, and from logical to physical.
- Consists of all the architecture assets; that is, models (eg. TRM), patterns, architecture descriptions, and other artifacts produced during application of the ADM.