This article discusses designing an Information Technology (IT) Architecture to meet the seemingly paradoxical demands of organizational flexibility and product standardization – the former helps an organization quickly adapt to business change thereby creating the maximum shareholder value while the latter helps reduce cost of business operation.
Explore how enterprise architecture can transform business complexity into a strategic advantage
Where is the beef Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Is the benefit in reuse? Is it in interoperability? Management of business? This presentation evaluates the business case for SOA along key criteria.
The authors make the business case for enterprise architecture planning.
This comprehensive study explores how mastering enterprise architecture (EA) can drive long-term business value. Discover the correlation between EA maturity and its value to an organization, and learn strategies for enhancing your EA capabilities.
“The business” does not exist, proclaims the author, and then goes on to show that this represents the major obstacle for successful enterprise architecture and mature IT.
This white paper provides an overview of enterprise architecture’s role in the enterprise transformation process: common definitions, frameworks and views, the EA linkage to solution architectures and service-oriented architectures, the business value of EA and a summary of implications that EA imposes on successful software development.
This guide to enterprise architecture discusses the return on investment or business value or impact of implementing an enterprise architecture.
Discover a robust, structured approach to quantify the overall financial impact of IT projects. Adapted to fit any organization, this method aids in calculating accurate ROI and identifies both hard and soft benefits, offering a complete picture of your IT project’s benefits.
 This paper argues that reducing IT complexity can reduce IT failure and save trillions of dollars worldwide.
