Enterprises have architecture: whether it is visible or invisible is another matter. An enterprises’ architecture determines the way in which it works to deliver its business objectives and the way in which it can change to continue to meet its evolving business objectives. Enterprise architectural thinking can facilitate effective strategic planning and information systems development. This pa...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) projects require analyzing and designing across the whole enterprise and its environment. Enterprise architects, therefore, frequently develop enterprise models that span from the markets in which the organization operates down to the implementation of the IT systems that support its operations. In this paper, we present SEAM for EA: a method for defining an enterpr...

Features of current business environment are quarterly economy, organizational changes (e.g. mergers, acquisitions, structural changes, outsourcing), pressures for business-IT alignment, cost-effectiveness, changes and improvements in technologies and practices (e.g. service-oriented architecture).The rapidly changing environment all organisations must operate creates a situation where an archi...

One of the ways to capture enterprise knowledge is Enterprise Architecture (EA). EA allows indentifying the majority of software “to-be” requirements for information systems (IS) engineering. However, the transition between enterprise architecture model and IT resource design still lacks a clear approach and tools for implementing it in practice. The paper presents an approach for the enterpris...

The value returned by Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly under consideration by researchers and practitioners. They struggle to justify the EA investments made. Quantifying the Enterprise Architecture benefits has always been a challenge because measurements and real value delivered can not often be expressed in simple technical oriented metrics only. In this paper we suggest a multi-...

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. This article d...

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) has become well-established in many organizations and is continuously discussed in academic literature. However, EA’s effectiveness beyond IT is limited. The paradigm of architectural thinking aims at reaching the 90% of an organization that is not related to IT. The paper contrasts the abstract definitions of architectural thinking with empirical ...

Managing the enterprise architecture (EA) is a major challenge of every larger modern enterprise. Aligning business and IT in order to optimize their interaction is the main goal of EA management. The first step of an EA management approach typically is to analyze and document the as-is-situation. Subsequently, the second step has to be the management of the EA evolution in order to achieve the...

1 Motivation Today's enterprises find themselves confronted with a changing economic, regulatory, and technical environment that they are forced to adapt to (Ross et al. 2006, Wagter et al. 2005). Performing the necessary and beneficial adaptations is aggravated by the intricate and highly interwoven architecture of the overall enterprise. Therein, local changes to one enterprise artifact, e.g....