Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is acknowledged as a discipline to drive organizational change, to improve IT landscapes’ transparency, and to align business and IT. Despite its increasing popularity in practice, many EAM initiatives are confronted with substantial challenges, as demonstrated by the low usage level of enterprise architecture (EA) documentation and enterprise architects...

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) management is albeit a long history still developing. This is becomes obvious, when literature on the EA management function is analyzed. Multiple approaches describe different make-ups for the overall function, while a common sense does yet not exist. In this paper, we analyze EA management functions as proposed in literature from a systemic persp...

The number of published Enterprise Architecture (EA) research has increased during the last few years. As a discipline, EA is still young and lacking theoretical foundation. Lately some research trying to ground EA to theory has been published, including linkage to systems theory. Enterprise Architecture can be defined as; (i) a formal description of the current and future state(s) of an organi...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a description of an organization from the integrated business and IT perspective intended to facilitate information systems planning. Popular EA frameworks 1, 2 , books 3, 4 and even academic articles 5 suggest that EA provides comprehensive descriptions of the current and future states of an organization as well as a transition roadmap between them. Essentially,...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) Implementation Methodologies have become an important part of EA projects. Several implementation methodologies have been proposed, as a theoretical and practical approach, to facilitate and support the development of EA within an enterprise. A significant question when facing the starting of EA implementation is deciding which methodology to utilize. In order to an...

Enterprises choose Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution, in order to overcome dynamic business challenges and in order to coordinate various enterprise elements. In this article, a solution is suggested for the Enterprise Architecture based on a conceptual model of Enterprise Ontology (EO). Enterprise Ontology provides a common structure for data collection. First, conceptual model of Enterpri...

The concept of concern is used in Enterprise Architecture (EA) to express a stakeholder’s area of interest in a system whose architecture is to be described. Many EA-related problems are rooted in weak stakeholder orientation. We propose an approach to explicitly model stakeholders’ concerns as part of an architecture description. Our contribution is a modeling notation for concern elicitation ...