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| Page | Brief description | Maturity |
|---|---|---|
| Access Aggregation | Access Aggregation is a logical infrastructure function that performs the tasks required to group multiple Access Conditioning instances. | 2 |
| Access Conditioning | Access Conditioning handles tasks that the infrastructure architect associates with obtaining access to an infrastructure facility. | 2 |
| Alerting | Alerting serves to notify clients of, and/or trigger other services/functions on, certain predefined conditions or events. | 2 |
| Application Engine | This function offers a run-time environment for applications. | 2 |
| Archiving | This function provides preservation with retention policies as add-on to another storage function. | 2 |
| Caching | This function offers to hold collections of data that are duplicated from elsewhere, or buffer data in transit. | 4 |
| Configuration Register | The Configuration Register function retains sets of configuration parameters for one or more IT facilities. | 2 |
| Configuration Retrieval | This function collects a service or (sub)system's configuration, and sends it to a consumer. | 2 |
| Connection Handling | This function covers all behaviour associated with the management of one end of a communication session. | 3 |
| Content Handling | The Content Handling function provides intelligence to manage and manipulate digital content in an automated fashion. | 3 |
| Controlling | Function that can change a facility's actual behaviour, the way it is configured. | 4 |
| Data Engine | This function offers the ability to process strictly structured data. | 4 |
| Data Replication | This function aims to replicate stored data that resides in one (logical or physical) storage location to another one. | 2 |
| Data Scanning | The Data Scanning function scans through data searching for certain characteristics, and taking actions upon finding them. | 3 |
| Data State Preservation | This function aims to preserve data that resides in a particular (logical or physical) location in the state that it is at a specific point in time. | 2 |
| Deploying | The Deploying function can automatically install and configure (software) objects on a specified (remote) location. | 3 |
| Distribution | Distribution routes incoming data to one or more destinations. | 3 |
| Encryption | This function takes care of the encryption and/or decryption of data. | 4 |
| File Engine | This function handles storage, retrieval and manipulation of loosely structured data. | 4 |
| Filtering | The Filtering function scans through data, matching it against patterns or rules, and either passing it on or not. | 3 |
| Header Modification | This Generic Function enables message exchange between senders and receivers that use different messaging protocols/encapsulations. | 2 |
| Identity Store | This function offers to store digital identities together with information that can serve as credentials. | 2 |
| Identity Validation | The Identity Validation function offers the ability to validate a digital identity. | 3 |
| Input | This function provides the possibility to translate physical information into digital information for use in IT facilities | 4 |
| Interconnection | An Interconnection function offers to transport data over relatively long distances | 3 |
| Load Balancing | The Load Balancing functionality accepts data en route, and intelligently directs it to travel to one of several destinations. | 3 |
| Logging | This function provides a (logical) location where logs can be written and consulted, and the ability to do so. | 3 |
| Message Distribution | This function offers to direct messages between and/or within instances of the Message Handling facility. | 4 |
| Message Engine | This function can receive, process and/or send messages. | 3 |
| Message Filtering | The Message Filtering function checks message handling transactions, matching it against patterns or rules, and either passing messages on or not. | 3 |
| Message Formatting | This function is used to format messages for exchange between a facility and a message handling service. | 2 |
| Message Responding | The Message Responding function provides feedback to senders regarding message delivery failures and/or recipient status. | 2 |
| Message Store | This function preserves and organizes digital messages. | 4 |
| Message Transformation | Converts/changes content of a message based on predefined rules during exchange. | 2 |
| Name Resolution | The Name Resolution serves lookups from a store of connected names and addresses. | 3 |
| Name Resolution | The Name Resolution serves lookups from a store of connected names and addresses. | 3 |
| Output | This function conveys digital information for use in the physical world, by converting digital information into events and/or physical information. | 4 |
| Permission Register | This function offers a means to store and publish permissions (technical representations of business rules about infrastructural actions like reading or writing information). | 2 |
| Permission Validation | This function offers the ability to decide on allowing or disallowing a proposed action by a digital identity on a specified resource. | 3 |
| Presentation Aggregation | This function provides a single point of access to a variety of information and/or applications. | 3 |
| Presentation Engine | This function processes input to and output from an infrastructure facility. | 4 |
| Queuing | Provides the ability to process traffic based various queuing policies. | 2 |
| Raw Retention | Function that handles storing/retrieving/updating/deleting unstructured data such as bits and bytes. | 4 |
| Reduction | This function encodes data using fewer bits than the original representation, and/or restores it to its original form if so requested. | 4 |
| Reporting | A Reporting function can take data from a connected source, process it, and then deliver focused, salient content to its clients. | 2 |
| Restore | Function that restores a secondary copy of data to the original, or to an alternative, location. | 4 |
| Retention Engine | This function offers intelligent handling of data at the "unstructured data" abstraction level. | 4 |
| Rules Engine | This function can have the infrastructure perform actions based on rules. | 2 |
| Scheduling | This Function provides control over tasks, based on schedules, events, triggers, and other control information. | 2 |
| State Lookup | Informing its user of the state of some object, system, or (infrastructure) facility. | 2 |