Enterprise Architecture (EA) Knowledge Archive – Page 45

Enterprise Architecture (EA) knowledge refers to the understanding of the organization’s IT infrastructure, applications, and processes in the context of the overall business strategy. Effective EA knowledge can help organizations optimize their IT investments, improve IT agility, and achieve desired business outcomes.

EA knowledge may include:

  1. Understanding the organization’s business goals: Organizations should understand their business goals to ensure that their IT infrastructure and applications are aligned with overall business strategy.
  2. Assessing IT infrastructure: Organizations should assess their IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, and network infrastructure, to identify potential areas for optimization.
  3. Evaluating application portfolios: Organizations should evaluate their application portfolios to ensure that they are aligned with overall business strategy and are delivering the expected value.
  4. Optimizing IT processes: Organizations should optimize their IT processes to improve IT agility and efficiency.
  5. Establishing governance frameworks: Organizations should establish governance frameworks to ensure that IT investments are aligned with overall business strategy and are delivering the expected value.

Effective EA knowledge requires a deep understanding of the organization’s business goals, as well as the IT infrastructure and applications that support these goals. IT executives should ensure that their EA knowledge is well-documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders across the organization.

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) Knowledge category within the CIO Reference Library provides CIOs and other IT executives with a comprehensive set of resources that illustrate effective EA knowledge practices. This category includes a range of resources, such as articles, whitepapers, and case studies, that offer insights into different aspects of EA knowledge, such as understanding business goals, assessing IT infrastructure, evaluating application portfolios, optimizing IT processes, and establishing governance frameworks. By leveraging these resources, CIOs and IT executives can gain a deeper understanding of effective EA knowledge practices and optimize their IT investments to achieve desired business outcomes.

Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF V2.0) Volume III

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is a three-volume set. Volume III introduces the architecture data management strategy and describes the pre-release CADM v1.5, which includes the data elements and business rules for the relationships that enable consistent data representation across architectures.

Requirement and Constraint Analysis

This paper discusses the impact of non-functional requirements on software systems. "One of the most important roles for an architect is in the requirements engineering phase; this is how architects help define the solution that best satisfies all stakeholders."

Investment Prioritization and Planning

"Picking the Best Projects The way to have an impact, as an IT professional, is to bring ideas to the table that solve business problems, and explain them in ways that show business impact"

Selecting the Right Client Architecture

This presentation discusses the drivers of client architecture decision, technologies that offer the best combination of features and manageability, and, the relative strengths of each.

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