# What Is an Enterprise Framework?


By Ben Ramsey

Published on May 9, 2005


Aside from the learning and networking aspects of conferences, another great by-product of attending a conference is the sharing of ideas. I came away from the [International PHP Conference](http://phpconference.com) reinvigorated with new ideas and techniques and applications I want to try out. Also, I came away with a great definition for the ever-intangible "enterprise framework."

The phrase "enterprise framework" eludes defining at times and starts holy wars. However, Joseph Kolin presented me with a definition: *an enterprise framework allows the end-user to drop in only the business logic to make it work; they do not need to add anymore programming to the framework*. The folks over at [Achievo ATK](http://www.achievo.org/atk) agree with this definition.

What do you think? Is this the proper definition of an "enterprise framework?"