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Model and Application Architecture Indicators of Evaluation the Enterprise Architecture

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Enterprise ArchitectureEA provides a “knowledge base and support for decision making within the enterprise and it serves as the blueprint of current situation and strategy for future directions of the enterprise”. The planning and modeling aspect of EA is already fairly well covered in the literature, while the evaluation and the attributes of EA quality have attracted less interest and yet enterprise architecture quality has been perceived as a prerequisite for realizing its benefits [6]. The principle goals of EA evaluation are to document the significance of the EA to decision makers, and to identify the development needs of the EA. However it is very difficult to find a complete method of evaluation in term of indicators of evaluation and which ensures the follow-up of all the stages of development of the architecture of company. This article presents a generic model of evaluation enterprise architecture. We do not want to use attributes directly because the model definition could vary in different organizations. Therefore, we introduce this artifact as an intermediate layer as not to limit the flexibility of evaluation.

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  1. Alqualsadi Research Team on Enterprise Architecture, ENSIAS, Mohammed V- Souissi University, Rabat, Morrocco

    Jihane Lakhrouit & Karim Baïna

  2. CNRS – UMR 7503, LORIA – INRIA, BP 239, F-54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France

    Khalid Benali

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  2. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. Department of Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix . B Tan

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Lakhrouit, J., Baïna, K., Benali, K. (2014). Model and Application Architecture Indicators of Evaluation the Enterprise Architecture. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_7

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