Viewpoint Definition
What is Viewpoint meaning?
A viewpoint, or point of view, is the position or place a viewer, for example, a stakeholder, has in a space and from which he sees, understands, or experiences the world. It is what he sees, understands, or experiences because of being sensitive, interested, or knowledgeable about certain aspects.
Short, a viewpoint is the position of a viewer that makes them interested or not in certain aspects, issues, and concerns.
A customer has a customer viewpoint. They have their own unique viewpoints.
From a financial point of view (Financial Viewpoint), a CFO is interested in how an ERP system is realized.
Viewpoints consist of one or more function-, task-, and role-related questions about how a system does something.
An architect makes at least one visualization or view for each viewpoint.
Examples of Viewpoints
Some common examples of viewpoints include:
- Employee viewpoint
- Management viewpoint
- Business viewpoint
- Business Process viewpoint
- Growth viewpoint
- Learn viewpoint
- Logistics viewpoint
- R&D viewpoint
- Legal viewpoint
- IT viewpoint
- Data viewpoint
- Application viewpoint
- System viewpoint
- Component viewpoint
- Modules viewpoint
- Functional viewpoint
- Technical viewpoint
- Security viewpoint
- Social viewpoint
- Maintenance viewpoint
- Economic viewpoint
- Environmental viewpoint
Cybersecurity Viewpoint
For example, we will provide a recipe from the view point.
A security architect will have certain security questions when looking at a system.
Cybersecurity is about protecting information from unauthorized access.
Suppose the architect looks at an online social network. They might have the following questions, specifying the cybersecurity viewpoint:
- How does the system ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability?
- How does the system enforce (required) membership identification?
- How does the system protect data from unauthorized access?
- How does the system monitor (un)authorized access?
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