Starting Enterprise Architecture Program

Starting Enterprise Architecture Program

Enterprise Architecture Program continued… Once you have chosen a business area where you can start with, you could potentially conduct application portfolio analysis on that particular business domain. Within this portfolio analysis, you should be able to identify and collect application characteristics such as Owners What operating business functions and processes does it support? Physical characteristics such as O/S, version, software Operating matrix such as cost, license, help tickets Shared service characteristics such as integrations, dependencies At the end of this exercise you would...

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Solution Architecture and Application Architecture

Is Enterprise Application Architecture = Solution Architecture? Steve Armstrong • Enterprise Architects frequently refer to different domains such as Business, Data, Technology, Solution, and occasionally Application. I’d like some input on the differences between an Application domain and a Solution domain. My sense is that for many the Application domain refers to the higher levels of the technology stack (eg: models, principles and patterns for Process, Views, and Services) which should of course should be modeled based on the business domain. Conversely, the Solution...

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Enterprise Architecture KPI

Enterprise Architecture KPI

Enterprise Architecture is understood to benefit business in multiple ways. It helps business to rationalize its processes and applications and establish an enterprise architecture governance,  technology standards, processes and best practices. A modern and standard based technology architecture helps better enterprise information sharing, reduce costs and improve ROI and ultimately help executives in making effective business decisions and drive revenue and growth. That being said how do you prove and show business the benefits of enterprise architecture has realized? How do you measure and...

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What is Enterprise Architecture

The definition of an architecture used in ANSI/IEEE Std 1471-2000is: “the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.” An enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual tool that assists organizations with the understanding of their own structure and the way they work. It provides a map of the enterprise and is a route planner for business and technology change. Normally an enterprise architecture takes the form of...

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