A big-picture look at enterprise architectures

TLDR

Planning the growth of information systems is essential, yet many road‑mapping efforts begin at the wrong level, making it difficult to achieve a consistent, coherent vision for enterprise evolution without a proper development framework. The paper presents a task list of concepts to guide the establishment of an enterprise architecture, illustrating the breadth of work required. The authors claim that their outline provides a starting point toward a more realistic enterprise architecture vision.

Abstract

It makes sense to plan the growth of your information systems. But many attempts to create a road map start at the wrong level. Ensuring a consistent, coherent vision to direct the evolution of the enterprise's information systems is difficult enough with a development framework. Without one, it's impossible. The concepts we outline are just a task list in the work to establish an enterprise architecture, but they give you some idea of the breadth of the job ahead of you. However, we hope we've given you a start toward a more realistic vision of your enterprise architecture.