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Connecting Business Drivers To Enterprise Architecture: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Understanding business plans and challenges is essential when starting an enterprise architecture EA effort or when taking stock of an existing effort. It is also a necessary part of continuous or annual planning and alignment. But the value and credibility of the EA effort depends upon how architecture...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Effort, Strategy, Management; Research reports 2005-06-17

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Business Process Trends: Developing an Enterprise Architecture: This white paper discusses the growing role and importance of enterprise architectures in the management of organizations. The paper begins with a definition of an enterprise architecture, then the paper examines the Zachman Framework, a typical overview of an enterprise architecture. Subsequently, the paper considers how an enterprise architecture might...; Tags: Business Process, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2003-01-01
IT Governance: Enterprise Architecture Planning: Enterprise architecture is to an enterprise, as architecture is to a building. Enterprise Architecture Planning is invaluable to any organization, especially large ones. They can help improve asset productivity and lower costs. Effective Enterprise Architecture Planning requires a practical and easy to use framework. This framework should help break this...; Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Planning, Strategy, Management; Webcasts
Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 5: Growing With Your Enterprise - The Business World Is Constantly Changing: Can Your Enterprise Architecture Keep Up?: Enterprise architecture involves planning - for now and for the future. Learn how your architecture design can benefit from a strong understanding of IT/business alignment factors. This series has explored various aspects of enterprise architecture. This installment looks specifically at planning for growth, which is a critical area: Without this...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-11-06
California Enterprise Architecture Framework: The California Enterprise Architecture Framework offers an end-to-end process to initiate, implement, and sustain an enterprise architecture program. The framework contains eight components that move the enterprise from the current to the target environment and identifies six key architecture products across four architecture domains - business, data, application and technology.; Tags: California, Framework, California Enterprise Architecture Framework, Strategy, Management; White papers 2005-04-01

Enterprise Architecture and the Role of Technology: Delivering Value to Stakeholders: Enterprise Architecture EA function is often equated with processes, metrics, and governance, but these elements are only peripheral. Enterprise architecture is a broad term, involving the creation and execution of IT strategy based on an organization's vision and business goals. In this paper, discover why technology is a key function...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Function, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-04-11
The Four-Domain Architecture: An Approach to Support Enterprise Architecture Design: Managing an enterprise architecture is a challenging task. While careful planning typically goes into its design, an enterprise architecture actually emerges as a result of implementing individual projects. It is this de facto architecture, not the conceptual one, that provides the capabilities for executing business strategies, and understanding this emergent...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-02-26
TOGAF or Not TOGAF: Extending Enterprise Architecture Beyond RUP: This paper contrasts the disciplines of enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and business architecture; compares these disciplines to the IBM Rational Unified Process RUP and suggests ways to combine them; and advocates applying The Open Group Architecture Framework TOGAF in combination with RUP to advance the implementation of enterprise architecture within...; Tags: RUP, Enterprise Architecture, IBM Corp., UML, Strategy, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management; White papers 2007-01-15
Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 3: Design and Build Your Enterprise Architecture - Getting Your Enterprise Architecture Project Under Way: Building great IT architecture takes time and planning. By assessing what is already in place, then visualizing what it should be, one can make great enterprise architecture a reality. To achieve the dream architecture, learn what to build, how to build it, and what to build it on in this...; Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-09-11
NASCIO EA Development Tool-Kit: Introduction & Architecture Governance: Adaptive enterprise architecture effectively supports the business of government, enables information sharing across traditional barriers, enhances government's ability to deliver effective and timely services, and supports agencies in their efforts to improve government functions. Enterprise architecture supports the identification and optimization of the entity's interrelated business processes and resulting IT...; Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2004-10-01
Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 6: Build the Integration Architecture - Putting It All Together: A key aspect of any enterprise architecture is the integration of all the parts and pieces. This is the purpose of the integration architecture - to make sure that everything works smoothly. Designing this architecture is the sixth step in the enterprise architecture process, the step where everything comes together.; Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-11-29
Enterprise DNA: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture: Enterprise Architecture EA is a framework or "Blueprint" for how the organization achieves the business objectives at hand and in the future. For many organizations enterprise architecture, properly engineered, could possibly be the single most effective tool they can use to ensure that the right information gets to the right...; Tags: DNA, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-02-02
The Power of Enterprise Architecture: Enterprise Architecture describes the fundamental organization of the business, its components and the relationship between those components. Good enterprise architecture allows people to understand the business vision, the organization and processes that execute the vision, and the systems that support it. Enterprise architecture can be extremely complex and cover many...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers
Architecture Principles: Creating the Foundation for Robust Architecture: This paper discusses the role of principles in developing an architecture, whether it is a reference architecture, an application architecture, or one of the other architecture types. Architecture is a complex effort that must balance the needs of the business with the reality of how technology can support it. Principles...; Tags: Architecture, Principles, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-03-27
Enterprise Representation: A Different Paradigm for Designing Process-Interoperability Standards: This paper identifies issues that, if resolved, will help define a realistic role for standards in defining the different necessary components of enterprise integration. The representation of the enterprise is, by definition, a model. One could view the enterprise-reference architecture as information and knowledge with which one could adequately represent...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Standards, NIST, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management; White papers
Gartner Enterprise Architecture: A Home for E-Government: E-government architecture fits within the overall context of enterprise architecture. Gartner's Enterprise Architecture Framework can be tailored and used by governments to guide e-government development. Use the multirelationship grid concept and business process styles to discover common business processes and modes of interaction. These common requirements will drive the underlying...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Gartner Inc., E-government Architecture, E-government, Government; White papers 2003-07-29
Service Oriented Architecture: Practical Enterprise Architecture: The strongest of Enterprise Architecture EA trends lately is represented by three words - Service Oriented Architecture SOA. One should focus on a Service Oriented Enterprise to enhance business performance across interfaces and to prepare to leverage SOA technology for the highest potential impact. Service orientation is the penultimate solution...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Service Orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management; White papers 2005-09-19
Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 4: Test (and Retest) Your Enterprise Architecture - Uncovering Weaknesses in Your Design: After successfully building the new IT enterprise architecture, it's time to test it. Testing proves that the hard work the user and his team has put in really works. By stressing the new architecture, one will know where its weaknesses are and how well it will serve the enterprise. Now...; Tags: Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-10-02
Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 4: Update Your Infrastructure Architecture to Serve and Protect Your Enterprise: Now that one has supplemented the business architecture with an information architecture, one can move on to updating the existing infrastructure architecture. This update consists of a validation and a possible realignment of the infrastructure to meet the requirements outlined in both the business and the information architectures. Traditional enterprise...; Tags: Information Technology, Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-09-19
Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 3: Move on to the Information Architecture - Store, Protect, and Manage Your Organization's Data: As one progress toward the design of the enterprise architecture, one must supplement the new business architecture with an information architecture - an architecture that outlines mission-critical information and how to store it, protect it, and manage it. Learn how to design and maintain an information architecture for the organization....; Tags: Information Technology, Information Architecture, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-08-15

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