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ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
| What is Enterprise Architecture (EA)? | |
| • | The analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from a strategy, business, and technology perspective |
| • | An integrated approach to organization-wide strategic, business, and technology planning |
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| • | A Framework that describes how an organization develops, manages, and uses information technology, data, systems, performance criteria and business processes to optimally support the enterprise business goals and strategy |
| • | An Enterprise Architecture provides a clear and comprehensive picture of an entity, whether it is an organization (e.g., a department, a division), or a functional, or mission area that cuts across more than one organization (e.g., financial management) |
| What EA is not but includes…. | |
| • | Service Oriented Architecture– EA encompasses SOA and completes the business/technology relationships for the enterprise – SOA is a collection of IT services designed to integrate, separation of interfaces from implementations, and is standards-based |
| • | A “Mapping” of hardware/communications linkages– EA includes this mapping in the Technical Reference Model (TRM) |
| • | Portfolio Management– EA encompasses PM and provides the complete, integrated relationship for each item in the portfolio |
| • | Records Management– EA improves the clarity of RM activities |
| • | System Architecture - EA includes the attributes of all of the architected systems of the Enterprise. |
