An insight in to Enterprise Architecture

Personas for an Enterprise Architecture

• Strategic Architecture
• Chief Architecture
• Business Architecture
  

Rationale: Behind and EA

Why Enterprise Architecture is Important for your Organisation .

1. Manages IT portfolio
2. Managing complexity
3. Support Decision making
4. Delivers roadmap for change
5. Delivers insight an overview of Business & IT
6. Supports System development
7. Supports business and IT budget priortisation

What issue you plan for EA program

1. Business IT Allignment
2. Business Change
3. Transaformation roadmap
4. Infrastructural renewal
5. Application renewal
6. Legacy transformation

In recent years the familirisation of Organisation with the EA is growing and so as the need. Even the enterprsie governance is identifying EA. EA is also sitting at the Top management and IT Maangement governance structure. From the analysis and surveys performaed it is a self learned discipline by understanding the Business needs, organisation structures and what rechnology can offer. The need for certification is also not necessary if the wokring experience support the requirement for an Enterprise Architecture profession. Though as any othe profession constant awareness programs about the Business-Technology models is important to keep the momentum and insights in to what is available is required.

And as we knwo about the book "Lost in the world of Framweorks", most of the organisation follows there own framework that work efficient for them and that is most of the time best of the breed Hybrid framework that may include a combination of more than one framework. Other than that the most common frameworks in use are Zachman and TOGAF.

Looking at the EA maturity lot of companies still use the tools like Visio and Powerpoint as the main tool for EA practice. But in the recent years the more wholistic tools are picking up with much wider coverage of the aspects of EA.