What is Enterprise Architecture March 2009

Enterprise Architecture Architecture –the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles (rules) governing its design and evolution Architecture levels –Enterprise Architecture  City Planning –Solutions Architecture  (Buildings) Architecture Enterprise Architecture –defines and maintains the architecture models, and governance needed to effectively co-ordinate enterprise toward common business and/or IT goals –provides enterprise level view of organization and business activities –provides a formal link between strategy and results Enterprise Architecture Framework –An architecture framework is a tool for developing enterprise architectures. –Enterprise Architecture Framework is a method to design, evaluate and build Enterprise Architecture and govern it lucrative usage.

Enterprise Architecture Layers

Solution Architecture and EA Solution

Enterprise Architecture services by Gartner