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Building the Enterprise Architecture: A Bottom-Up Evolution?

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Organisations today have information systems that support many tasks, such as decision-making, co-ordination, control, analysis and development (Pereira and Sousa, 2004). However, most enterprises are burdened with a vast array of computers and applications that are linked together through a variety of ad-hoc mechanisms.

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Sundberg, H.P. (2007). Building the Enterprise Architecture: A Bottom-Up Evolution?. In: Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, W.G., Zupancic, J., Magyar, G., Knapp, G. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70802-7_24

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