Abstract
Enterprise architecture (EA) is present at every company; however, just few organizations have their architecture formalized and manage it to meet their strategic goals. EA creates opportunity for an effective interaction between business and ITC world. Moreover, EA serves as the blueprint for a company and the process which defines it. This paper formulates problem with current approach describing an enterprise and shows that service orientation is a key to coherent enterprise architecture description. We briefly discuss enterprise architecture cohesion and propose method how to measure the level of cohesion within enterprise architecture layers. Main contribution of this paper consists in a comparison and analysis of the chosen frameworks (ArchiMate, Zachman, TOGAF, and DoDAF) based on cohesion viewpoint. Conclusions made by authors could serve as guidance for particular framework extension with the aim to gain coherent enterprise description.
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Information and communication technologies
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In this paper, we use term segment architectures and enterprise architecture layers as synonym.
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ArchiMate is an open and independent enterprise architecture modeling language that offers a support for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure [14].
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This research has been supported by GACR (Grant Agency, Czech Republic) grant No. P403/10/0303, Enterprise Architecture as Management Principle for SMEs.
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Selcan, V., Buchalcevova, A. (2013). An Analysis of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks from a Coherent Enterprise Description Viewpoint. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_40
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