Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Introduction

It is a strategic concept for the company's business today. It sets out a definition based on landscape “general” for companies for their continuous process improvement. It takes into account the area of technology to support the mission and lead the foundation to give way to the realization of the vision by analysis, design and implementation of progressive and adaptive enterprise architecture (EA). The importance of EA is to maintain harmony between the different aspects of inside and outside business and affect how the goals are met it.

So far there is no universally accepted definition of enterprise architecture. Nevertheless from the common definitions of the derived properties of enterprise architecture, one approach to the ISO standard 15704, the general requirements of the enterprise architecture is defined. In this standard architecture as a description (model) of the basic structure of the parts of a system and the relationships between the individual elements understood. On this basis, a distinction is made between two types of enterprise architecture: Type-1 architectures are concerned with the description of the enterprise architecture at a given point in time (snapshot). Type-2 architectures focus on the process of developing the enterprise architecture (Enterprise Architecture, 2011).

Discussion

Structure describing the Enterprise Architecture

The enterprise architecture is concerned with the business activities of enterprises and the support of these activities by the information technology (IT). This architecture is often the following areas are considered:

Business Architecture

Business Architecture views the business processes of the company. The business process architecture is the result of business process modeling.

Information and Data Architecture

The information and data architecture, the data are identified with their relationships, which are required for the implementation of business processes, and described. This is done in a model and a representation that stable, complete, consistent and understandable for all involved. The information represents information architecture, information groups and their information needs. Among various groups of information are combined roles ...