Information technologies (IT) architecture and infrastructure is a significant cost item, especially for enterprises with complex production equipment that require automated digital devices to collect process primary data on technological processes. Most investment models enterprise-wide development projects usually do not take into account the automation’s costs, including design implementatio...

Todays enterprises are faced with the challenge of an ever changing environment, which they continuously have to adapt to. A commonly accepted means to support an enterprise in the transformation process and furthermore enhance the alignment between business and IT is enterprise architecture (EA) management, which provides a holistic perspective on the enterprise. In order to support an enterpr...

Enterprise architecture (EA) management has become an intensively discussed approach to manage enterprise transformations. Despite the popularity and potential of EA, both researchers and practitioners lament a lack of knowledge about the realization of benefits from EA. To determine the benefits from EA, we explore the various dimensions of EA benefit realization and report on the development ...

There is an increased awareness of the roles that enterprise architecture (EA) and enterprise systems (ES) play in today’s organizations. EA and ES usage maturity models are used to assess how well companies are capable of deploying these two concepts while striving to achieve strategic corporate goals. The existence of various architecture and ES usage models raises questions about how they bo...

The idea of the enterprise architecture (EA) has been active since 1980-ies. However, enterprise architecture performance attributes analysis still lacks a clear approach and tools for implementing it in practice. The paper presents an approach for the model-driven performance evaluation of the EA models. The suggested approach is based on the Unified profile for MODAF and DoDAF (UPDM), System ...

The aim of this paper is to deliver insight into enterprise transformation planning incorporating Enterprise Architecture (EA) models. The paper is based on analytically developed approaches to model-based enterprise transformation planning and uses six case studies to evaluate and extend the existing planning processes. To understand the planning situations and their respective planning proces...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools play an important supporting role in IT management of organizations to align their IT infrastructure to actual business needs. The continuously measurement and observation of each layer in an enterprise architecture is critical in order to achieve an holistic view about the EA operation. This paper describes a concept how to exploit and extend the ...

Organizations increasingly need to build an enterprise-wide capability to leverage technology that is distributed in different business units. Some organizations establish enterprise architecture (EA) standards to enable greater compatibility of IT components and integration of applications and data across the enterprise. Through a firm-level survey, we sought to answer two key questions about ...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has undergone many changes since the IT has found its way into the world of enterprises. The introduction of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is such a change with major consequences. The introduction of an SOA increases the flexibility and thus the productivity of an enterprise architecture, but unfortunately also its complexity. This makes the transformation of...