Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the process of developing enterprise Information Technology architecture. An EA focuses on a holistic and integrated view of the why, where, and who uses IT systems and how and what they are used for within an organization. An enterprise architect develops the strategy and enables the decisions for designing, developing, and deploying IT systems to support the bu...

For companies to be more competitive, they need to align their business and IT resources. Enterprise Architecture is the discipline whose purpose is to align more effectively the strategies of enterprises together with their processes and their resources (business and IT). Enterprise architecture is complex because it involves different types of practitioners with different goals and practices ...

The design and evolution of an enterprise architecture (EA) is a challenging and complex task. A participative approach to collaborative EA management is needed to support the collaboration of all individuals involved in the process of EA design and evolution. This article presents our concept of a semantic collaboration tool for collaborative EA management. This includes the concept of a seman...

An Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a holistic view of an enterprise. In creating or changing an EA, multiple decisions have to be made, which are based on assumptions about the situation at hand. In this thesis, we develop a framework for reasoning about changing decisions and assumptions, based on logical theories of intentions. This framework serves as the underlying formalism for a rec...

The demand for better services by customers and citizens keeps increasing at a rapid rate, enabling organizations the leverage towards competitive advantage. The enterprise architecture (EA) has merged as a possible solution for addressing organizational challenges, as well as for competitiveness and sustainability. The EA deployment involves agents, which are both human and non-human. The agen...

In analogy to classical engineering disciplines, this contribution discusses characteristics and requirements of an engineering approach to enterprise architecture design and proposes components and a top-level structure of an approach to address these requirements. The proposed components can partially be realized by existing work; partially they lay out the research path towards a mature engi...

Business and ICT strategic alignment remains an ongoing challenge facing organizations as they react to changing requirements by adapting or introducing new technologies to existing infrastructure. Activity around Enterprise Architecture (EA) has increasingly become relevant to these demands and as a consequence numerous methods and frameworks for pursuing EA have emerged. However these approac...

This paper reports the ndings of a systematic review on the literature concerning the potential contribution of Enterprise Architecture (EA) to the achievement of various business goals. The review revealed the current state of the scienti c and practitioner's literature concerning the potential bene ts of EA as describing 29 unique contexts within which EA has been found to deliver 100 unique ...

Industries and organizations have recently engaged in initiatives focusing on the exploration of methods models for digital transformation. As a result, it somehow remains unclear to many business leaders as what transformation mean. However, based mere fact that industries at large are embracing concept initiating programs around this concept. It can only mean there common benefits envisioned ...