Current Enterprise Architecture (EA) approaches tend to be generic, based on broad meta-models that cross-cut distinct architectural domains. Integrating these models is necessary to an effective EA process, in order to support, for example, benchmarking of business processes or assessing compliance to structured requirements. However, the integration of EA models faces challenges stemming from...

Considering the relation betweenEnterpriseArchitecture (EA) and IT is a prerequisitewhen promotingtheuptakeofITbysocieties.Inthispaper,theauthorsproposean“AdaptiveIntegrated EAframework,”basedontheresultsofasurvey,tosupportthestrategyofpromotingcloud/mobile IT.Theyconsideredauniqueadvancedcaseandprovidedetailsand thestructure/mechanismof...

Enterprise Modelling is a discipline which tries to capture and reason about the distinct dimensions (e.g. structure, strategies and processes) involved in organizations by means of visual models. In this work, we are interested in using Enterprise Architectures to gain an understanding of the enterprise to promote a goal-oriented enterprise analysis. This paper describes the current state of a...

While organisations address business-IT alignment achievement, they are continually suffering from misalignments. The paper deals with the concept of misalignment, with special attention to enterprise architecture (EA)based analytical potential. In this study an analytical solution is built to approach the topic of strategic alignment from an EA-based perspective. The study aims to accomplish a...

ion of services means that “service contracts only contain essential information and information about services is limited to what is published in service contracts”. Therefore, it is always a good practice to design services by hiding as much underlying details as possible. This assures and complements the previous loose coupling SOA principle. Therefore, the avoidance of providing any unneede...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) management seeks to mutually align business and IT while fostering flexibility to react upon environment changes appropriately. Highly distributed data within the entire enterprise is collected to facilitate decision making processes during enterprise transformations. At the same time enterprise architects and EA stakeholders have new and arising questions hard to p...

Enterprise architecture management is based on a holistic view on the enterprise addressing business and IT aspects in an integrated manner. EA management is a process to manage the complexity of the overall architecture and to improve the alignment of business and IT. In order to achieve these goals, it is necessary but not sufficient to manage the static complexity that arises from dependenci...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is considered a means for acquiring a multitude of benefits in organizations by most academic literature and practitioners alike. However, academic research has almost omitted the domain of EA benefits and value realization, and thus more research on the subject is needed. This paper describes a study which aims to chart the benefits of EA by a comprehensive literat...