Marchitecture (or Marketecture) is a

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsmarketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

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architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

. The term is applied to any form of electronic architecture, especially software, perceived to have been produced purely for marketing reasons. It may be used by a vendor to place itself in such a way as to promote all their strongest abilities whilst simultaneously masking their weaknesses. The term Marketecture is also used in the context of an abstract description of a complex system, such as a distributed software system, for the purpose of discussion and analysis. In his book ''Essential Software Architecture'', Ian Gorton describes it as

marketectureis one page, typically informal depiction of the system's structure and interactions. It shows the major components, their relationships and has a few well chosen labels and text boxes that portray the design philosophies embodied in the architecture. A marketecture is an excellent vehicle for facilitating discussion by stakeholders during design, build, review, and of course the sales process. It's easy to understand and explain, and serves as a starting point for deeper analysis.Essential Software Architecture
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Marketecture definition
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Software Architecture: The Difference between Marketecture and Tarchitecture
(sample chapter) from ''Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions'' () by Luke Hohmann * Essential Software Architecture () by Ian Gorton
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