What Is Business Architecture?

What Is Business Architecture

What is a Business Architecture? For most architects, this question seems one of the most hardest to understand. The focus area of enterprise architecture focused on defining the future state business model, organization and capabilities/services needed to satisfy ongoing business transformation efforts. An Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA) describes the various functions of an organization, the business processes that support those functions, and the relationship among the business processes. The EBA includes the current Business Objectives…

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Business Architects – In the Driver’s Seat

Business Architects - In the Driver's Seat

Do they Finally Get It? “By 2008, 40% of enterprise architects will have primary expertise in business strategy or process engineering” 2004 Meta Group, Inc. They get it. It took some time, but they get it now. I might generalize and say that most medium size businesses have some sort of architecture function in their midst. I’d go further an say every large business now believes that architecture is the…

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No Crystal Ball for Enterprise Architecture Methodology

No Crystal Ball for Enterprise Architecture Methodology

Do You Have a Crystal Ball: 3 Future State Architecture Keys to Make them Think So! Documenting the current state architecture is a must to any enterprise or system architecture report, and even though we understand this, it’s the future state that everyone is anxious to see and share. Let’s face it – they are also waiting to critique it. There are components of a future architecture that make or…

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