Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) has become a prominent discipline for managing increasingly complex Business/IT relationships in organizations. The more tangible aspects of EAM like modeling, planning, principles or governance structures are widely discussed and understood. However, institutionalizing EAM in an organization remains a challenging issue. Therefore, actually realized EAM ...

The use of patterns and pattern languages in enterprise architecture (EA) is a relatively novel concept. Although both the concepts of patterns and EA are over 30 years old, the notion of design patterns is hardly applied to EA. There is a lack of pattern collections specifically devoted to EA: only a small number of patterns and pattern collections specifically aimed at enterprise architecture...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is essential for both pubic and private organizations as it provides a holistic approach to align information technology with business objectives. EA implementation is a multidisciplinary, complicated, and endless process. Therefore, successful EA implementation calls for highlyskilled personnel possessing diverse competencies. During the last years a few attempts h...

Many of today’s enterprises experience the need to establish and conduct management processes to ensure closely alignment between business and IT. Enterprise architecture (EA) management provides a model-based approach to understand and evolve the complex dependencies between the enterprise constituents, as e.g. business processes and business applications. In recent years the understanding of ...

When studying enterprises as complex systems through the Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline, researchers not only apply models, methods and theories of management and control – they ’should’ also use the same from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, environmental science, biology, social science, artificial intelligence, systems thinking and cybernetics. This diversity of related ...

When studying enterprises as complex systems through the Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline, researchers not only apply models, methods and theories of management and control – they ’should’ also use the same from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, environmental science, biology, social science, artificial intelligence, systems thinking and cybernetics. This diversity of related ...

Planning, managing, and maintaining the evolution of the application landscape is a focal point of enterprise architecture (EA) management. Whereas, planning the evolution of business support provided by the business applications is understood as one challenge to be addressed in landscape management, another challenge arises in the context of traceability of management decisions, which determin...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is employed by enterprises for providing integrated Information Systems (ISs) in order to support alignment of their business and Information Technology (IT). Evaluation of EA implementation can support enterprise to reach intended goals. There are some problems in current evaluation methods of EA implementation that lead to ineffectiveness implementation of EA. Thi...

Considering that SMEs need to embrace the drivers of resilience and that a well-defined and readily available Enterprise Architecture (EA) supports enterprise integration by enabling the common view of business processes, data and systems across the enterprise and its partners, we can say that EA is one of the tracks making resilience predictable and it should support and collaborate with other...