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Articles about Enterprise Architecture

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Experiences Applying a Practical Architectural Method

Article discussing a practical software architecture method at MITRE software center.

Enterprise Architecture: An Overview

Yogesh Malhotra discusses Enterprise Architectures as they relate to the broad decisions that must be made by an organization as it creates its organizational information support system.

Many Faces of Architecture

In recent years architecture has acquired recognition as playing a pivotal role in change processes. Despite this recognition, describing architecture has proven to be difficult. Architecture frameworks have been defined to address this problem. However, there are many of them, and together they leave us with seemingly contradicting terminology. What are the underlying forces that caused people to create so many different frameworks? What do these frameworks teach us about the essence of architecting? Where do I start to select or create a framework for my current project? With these questions in mind we set out to perform a comparison of existing architecture frameworks. We ended up with a deeper understanding of the function of a framework, and “discovered” nine fundamental dimensions that seem to underlie architectural thinking.

The Profession of the Enterprise Architect

How does your organization define enterprise architecture? Most would define it differently. Despite the debate, arguably human and communication skills are most critical. Vineet S. Rajput discusses.

The Information FrameWork (IFW)

Full text of Roger Evernden's Systems Journal article about Information FrameWork (IFW).

Whats Wrong With the Zachman Framework?

Graeme Simsion asks whether we are we in danger of mistaking elegance for truth - and hence failing to consider alternatives? And what are the limits of the model's applicability?

Lightweight enterprise architecture

Jurgens Pieterse discusses whether a lightweight approach to architecture will be sufficiently agile.

Enterprise Information Architecture: A Semantic and Organizational Foundation

EIAs can be a force for change, but so can anyone. The real question is: should the discipline of Enterprise Information Architecture be defined to include organizational change as one of its essential features. Tom Reamy doesn’t think it should be.

Behind the EA curtain: tools in use

GAO report includes a glimpse at enterprise architecture software programs agencies use.

Agile Enterprise Architecture

Scott W. Ambler provides an overview of agile enterprise architecture.

Architecture and Architecture Modeling Techniques

Scott W. Ambler's overview of UML, Model-Driven Architecture, the Zachman Framework, and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) and how to apply them in an agile manner.

Information Systems to (Meta-Information) Model Driven Enterprise Systems

Information systems are no more synonymous to the enterprise systems. The enterprise is now more of a demand-supply chain relationship between suppliers, partners, and customers. The enterprise is passing through a paradigm shift that will help us to classify enterprise systems most effectively.

Architectural Patterns

Patterns for system architecting are very much in their infancy. They have been introduced at this time essentially to draw them to the attention of the systems architecture community as an emerging important resource, and as a placeholder for hopefully more rigorous descriptions and references to more plentiful resources in future versions of TOGAF.

A Framework to Define a Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology

Peter Bernus and Laszlo Nemes discuss a Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology is about those methods, models and tools which are needed to build the integrated enterprise. The architecture is generic because it applies to most, potentially all types of enterprise.

The Convergence of Strategy, Performance and Enterprise Architecture in the US Federal Government

Paul Arveson discusses the transformation of government management practices, including the integration of performance and budgeting with Enterprise Architecture.

Blog postings about Enterprise Architecture

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Liberating Enterprise Architecture through Social Computing - Roger Evernden

A key component of Enterprise Architecture is communication. In fact I'd go further - EA needs communication, communication and yet more communication to be successful. Social computing offers exciting new ways to communicate, providing different ...

What is "business" architecture? - Roger Evernden

In a recent post I asked what is "enterprise" architecture? Jeff Scott has asked a similar question - what is "business" architecture? - on the EA network. Is "business" architecture radically different from "enterprise...

What is "enterprise" architecture? - Roger Evernden

No - this is not an academic ramble - being clear about the "enterprise" in EA is not only vital to justify and explain what we do, it also qualifies how well we do it! Let me explain with a couple of comparisons. If you were a baker and someone as...

Would you change the Zachman Framework? - Roger Evernden

What do you like about the Zachman Framework? What don't you like? Is there anything that you would change? The Zachman Framework is such a common schema for developing our architectures that it is important to discuss any limitations as well as ...

Why Information Framework (IFW)? - Roger Evernden

I started using the Zachman Framework in the 1980s, but I felt it didn't meet my needs. I ended up creating an alternative architecture framework called Information FrameWork (IFW). CityArchitect suggested that I blog some tasters about IFW - ...

Designing a foundation for flexibility and integration - Roger Evernden

Designing a foundation for flexibility and integration is the theme of this week's Enterprise Architecture Conference in London. Conference organizers, in this case IRM UK, have a pretty shrewd idea of trends. This is reflected in the subtitle and...

Form Follows Fashion - Roger Evernden

Form follows function is a principle from 20th century industrial architecture. The principle was first stated by American sculptor - Horatio Greenough. It was then popularised by Louis Sullivan - the father of architectural modernism - who said ...

20 Checkpoints to ensure that your requirements work - part 1 and part 2 - Greg Fullard

Information architecture or enterprise architecture? - Roger Evernden