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Embracing all the major business and IT structures, as well as the associations that exist between them, an enterprise architecture creates a helicopter view of the entire company. It serves as basis for describing both the business and IT, as well as the connections between the two, and for rendering explicit mutual dependencies and the impacts of changes in either camp. A common language is created, bridging the gap between business and IT (Fig. 3.1):
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
Thomas à Kempis (medieval monk and author of the Imitation of Christ)
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http://www.opengroup.org. The Open Group is a consortium of companies with a common interest in establishing vendor-neutral standards in IT.
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States and their transitions.
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Hanschke, I. (2010). Enterprise Architecture. In: Strategic IT Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05034-3_3
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