| Description |
xxx, 441 pages : illustrations, ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
“Enterprise architecture (EA) is a set of descriptions relevant to both business and IT intended to bridge the communication gap between business and IT stakeholders in organizations, facilitate information systems planning and improve business and IT alignment. Due to complex historical reasons, the notion of enterprise architecture was always surrounded by endless speculations, dangerous myths, non-existing best practices, unfulfilled promises, expensive failures and grave disappointments. Traditionally the entire discourse around enterprise architecture was dominated by shallow advice and faddish approaches, e.g. well-known EA frameworks, infinitely distant from practical realities, but nonetheless aggressively promoted by commercially motivated consultancies and gurus. At the same time, realistic and trustworthy information on enterprise architecture is still incredibly hard to find in any available sources. Based on an extensive study of the actual industry best practices and existing EA literature, the book provides a unique, systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice integrated into a consistent logical picture. In particular, this book offers clear, research-based conceptually sound and practically actionable answers to the key questions related to enterprise architecture: - What is the meaning of enterprise architecture and an EA practice? – What processes constitute established EA practices and how do they work? – What EA artifacts [artefacts] are used in successful EA practices and how? – What is the best way to structure architecture roles and functions? – What software tools and modelling languages are necessary for enterprise architecture? – How to initiate EA practice in organizations from scratch and evolve it? – Where do current EA best practices originate from? This book is organized in a highly structured, sequential manner and does not require any prior knowledge or enterprise architecture. The book is intended for a broad audience of people interested in enterprise architecture including practicing and aspiring architects, architecture managers, academic EA researchers, EA lecturers and students in universities.”--Back cover |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
National Library of Australia’s copy has author’s inscription. ANL |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-433) and index |
| Subject |
Enterprise application integration (Computer systems)
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Computer network architectures
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Business information services
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Computer architecture
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Business planning -- Information technology
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Business enterprises -- Information technology
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| ISBN |
9780648309833 (hardback) hardback |
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9780648309826 (paperback) |
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