POLDAT
Encyclopedia
POLDAT is an acronym for Process, Organization and Location (Business Architecture) and Data, Applications and Technology (Systems Architecture). They are the Domains of Change in CSC's Catalyst Methodology. POLDAT is not a framework, but it is the core of Catalyst
, which is a detailed "Business Change through Information Technology" methodology. Catalyst is an extensive program
, project
and operations management
methodology with a range of development paths including an Agile
like approach.
POLDAT is an architectural unification approach to recognize the commonalities between the radical re-engineering, Enterprise Transformation Planning and IS Planning. It dates to Catalyst Release 3 in the early 1990s and was one of the earliest integrated Enterprise methodologies.
It is also embedded in Casewise's Corporate Modeler, an early partner in providing automated support to Catalyst in the mid 1990s.
This and some other factors contributed to the POLDAT framework being more slightly more prevalent in Europe
.
Catalyst (software)
Catalyst is an open source web application framework written in Perl, that closely follows the model–view–controller architecture, and supports a number of experimental web patterns. It is written using Moose, a modern object system for Perl...
, which is a detailed "Business Change through Information Technology" methodology. Catalyst is an extensive program
Program management
Program management or programme management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance...
, project
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
and operations management
Operations management
Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...
methodology with a range of development paths including an Agile
Agile application
An Agile Application is the result of Service Oriented Architecture and Agile Development paradigms. An Agile Application is distinguished from average applications in that it is a loosely coupled set of services with a decoupled orchestration layer and it is easily modified to address changing...
like approach.
POLDAT is an architectural unification approach to recognize the commonalities between the radical re-engineering, Enterprise Transformation Planning and IS Planning. It dates to Catalyst Release 3 in the early 1990s and was one of the earliest integrated Enterprise methodologies.
It is also embedded in Casewise's Corporate Modeler, an early partner in providing automated support to Catalyst in the mid 1990s.
This and some other factors contributed to the POLDAT framework being more slightly more prevalent in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.