Let us define Views
What is the meaning of View?
A view is what a viewer sees, looking from one or more viewpoints.
A view is a representation of a model in which certain entities, patterns, or situations are emphasized or highlighted.
A view is a visualization of a quality aspect or cross-section of a system. Usage situations, usage conditions, management situations, and management conditions are often discussed in one view.
A view gives answers to specific (specialist) questions. A financial view of a system, for instance, gives answers to specific financial questions for that system.
An architect normally makes at least one view for each identified stakeholder in their architectural design assignment.
Examples of Views
A limited list of examples of views is:
- Customer view
- Employee view
- Stakeholder view
- Management view
- Financial view
- Business view
- Business Process view
- Growth view
- Learn view
- Logistics view
- R&D view
- Legal view
- IT view
- Data view
- Application view
- System view
- Component view
- Modules view
- Security view
- Cybersecurity view
- Social view
- Economic view
Although views and perspectives are defined as interchangeable words in Dragon1, we promote using the word perspective for a combination of views.
When creating a combination of views, the resulting view often includes changes to the original views.
A combination of a financial view and a customer view can be called a financial customer view or a financial customer perspective.
Cybersecurity View of a System
Below is an example cybersecurity view. It shows what a security architect sees of a system from a security viewpoint.
In this case, the system is an online social network.
Cybersecurity protects data from criminal or unauthorized use and takes measures to achieve this.
Organizational View of the Balanced Score Card
The Balanced Score Card is well known for its four perspectives (views) on an organization (customer, financial, business process, and learning & growth perspective.
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