Improving the documentation of models used for Enterprise Architecture (EA) management is essential for the progress of the discipline in practice. Automated EA documentation seeks to increase data quality and efficiency of this process by collecting relevant EA data from existing information sources in the organization. While empirical evidence on the feasibility of the approach and theoretica...

In recent years enterprise architecture (EA) has acquired recognition as playing a pivotal role in change processes. Purported benefits of having enterprise architecture include improved decision making, improved adaptability to changing demands or market conditions, elimination of inefficient and redundant processes, optimization of the use of organizational assets and effectively achieve curr...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly being used by large organizations to get a grip on the complexity and inflexibility of their business processes, information systems and technical infrastructure. Although seen as an important instrument to help solve major organizational problems, effectively applying EA seems no easy task. Efficient collaboration between architects and EA stakehold...

The enterprise architecture (EA) is a coherent and consistent set of principles and rules that guide system design. In EA modelling methods, an enterprise is identified with institution, business or administrative unit, a firm or an industrialized region. Enterprise architecture is also considered as strategic information assets, which determine the business mission, the technology necessary to...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a strategy that is employed by enterprises in order to align their business and Information Technology (IT). EA is managed, developed, and maintained through Enterprise Architecture Implementation Methodology (EAIM). Effectiveness of EA implementation is the degree in which EA helps to achieve the collective goals of the organization. This paper analyzes the resu...

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) minitrack has been a mainstay of HICSS for the past 15 years. The methodology, tools, and processes of enterprise architecting have evolved during that period. In 2005, Kaisler and Armour identified some critical challenges in modeling, management, and maintenance for EA that needed attention to ensure a viable technical discipline. Over 15 years, we have accept...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a tool that aligns organization’s business-process with application and information technology (IT) through EAmodels. This EA model allows the organization to cut off unnecessary IT expenses and determines the future and current IT requirements and boosts organizational performance. Enterprise architecture may be employed in every firm where the firm or organizat...

As a discipline, EA is practised both by IT analyst and business analysts. In some organizations, EA is primarily practised by IT people, and the results represent the detailed understanding of the existing IT infrastructure. In other organizations, EA is used for describing business architecture, with a focus on business strategy, the services provided by the business and the business processe...

Nowadays, utilizing EA by enterprises with medium and long term goals causes improvement in their productivity and competitiveness. With respect to varied changes in enterprise's business activities and attitudes, flexibility in information systems of EA is a crucial factor. Agent's capacities in implementation of complex systems goal convince huge enterprises to use agent oriented architecture...

Enterprise architecture (EA) models are key artifacts for managing the development of the enterprise and in particular its IT landscape, i.e. are central to EA management. The EA models are used to document the current state of the enterprise according to the information demands of EA stakeholders. These demands are reflected in the architecture models' corresponding meta-models, the EA informa...