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Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
Given today’s ever closer interdependence of business and IT (what we call their 'co-evolution') and the layering and increasing fragmentation of organizational structures, the corresponding architectures should assume a much greater importance for both the CIO and the CTO. This study will seek to determine the extent to which organizations are today making use of Business and IT Architectures to guide their operational, tactical and strategic decision-making. We will also make recommendations on good practice in this critical area.
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Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
05 Nov 2008 | Single Topic Report
We define enterprise architecture as the organizing logic of the business operating model of an enterprise, comprising its business functions and business processes, as well as the information, applications, services and technology infrastructure that support them. To draw an analogy with bricks and mortar, enterprise architecture is broadly equivalent to town planning, as opposed to solution architecture at the project level, which is analogous to the design of an individual building.
Enterprise architecture provides the essential understanding of how the business and IT capabilities of an enterprise are configured, interrelated and deployed in order to support what the business is trying to achieve. The result should be a set of interlocking architectures reflecting all of the required capabilities.
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