What is Enterprise Architecture

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The description of all the perspectives of an enterprise, i.e. organizational structure, personnel, information, business processes and information technology along with their interrelations. Learn more in: A Holistic Approach for Enterprise Agility

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Systematic approach for governance of organisational artefacts. Learn more in: Deployment of Enterprise Architecture From the Activity Theory Perspective

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An organisation has assigned roles and responsibilities, and established plans for developing products and services. The scope of Enterprise Architecture can be defined as encompassing the whole enterprise with confirmed institutional commitment to deliver products and services, both current and planned with clear transition plans. This in fact would define the organisation structure, functions and the relationships that would facilitate the organisation to meet its desired goals. This is extremely essential for enterprise modernisation. Development of the enterprise architecture will typically involve, analysing the current architecture which will be a process of description, documenting the architecture “as-is” or “baseline” architecture, moving on to a definition of the architecture as it is planned to develop in the future - the architecture as it should be or “target” architecture which would align with the vision of the organisation. Learn more in: E-Government and ERP: Challenges and Strategies

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Systematic approach for governance of organisational artefacts. Learn more in: Architectural Framework for the Implementation of Information Technology Governance in Organizations

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A well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, using a holistic approach at all times, for the successful development and execution of strategy. Learn more in: The New “ABC” of ICTs (Analytics + Big Data + Cloud Computing): A Complex Trade-Off between IT and CT Costs

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It is a specific type of architecture and can be considered to be the description and documentation of the current and desired information and technology environment, and its relationship to processes and business strategy. Learn more in: Using an Architecture Approach to ManageBusiness Processes

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A well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation towards a successful development and execution of the enterprise’s strategy. Learn more in: Evolution of ArchiMate and ArchiMate Models: An Operations Catalogue for Automating the Migration of ArchiMate Models

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Enterprise architecture is a comprehensive framework used to manage and align an organization’s business processes, IT software and hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations, and projects with the organization’s overall strategy. Learn more in: Developing the Enterprise Architect Perspective

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A process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communication, and improving the key principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution. Learn more in: Information Architecture for Pervasive Healthcare Information Provision with Technological Implementation

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Systematic approach for governance of organisational artefacts. Learn more in: Deployment of Enterprise Architecture From the Activity Theory Perspective

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The business activity of ensuring appropriate relationships between business strategy, and supporting technologies. Enterprise Architecture is mostly connected to information technology, but is in no limited to this. Any relationship between business and technology can be encompassed in enterprise architecture. The activities are generally two-fold: To document the existing portfolio of technology, and to plan technological transitions. Learn more in: IT Service Management Architectures

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The collection of all architectures, methods, and governance combined to meet specific business requirements and goals at an enterprise scope. The EA defines relationships between the specific domain architectures and how all of the different architectures relate to each other and contribute to the overall enterprise. Learn more in: Strategies for a Sustainable Enterprise

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Systematic approach for governance of organisational artefacts. Learn more in: Architectural Framework for the Implementation of Information Technology Governance in Organisations

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A model of the structure and behavior of an enterprise and of the services it most directly deals with ( Figure 6 ). Learn more in: A Service-Based Framework to Model Mobile Enterprise Architectures

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A well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, using a holistic approach at all times, for the successful development and execution of strategy. Learn more in: Methods and Techniques of Effective Management of Complexity in Aviation