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TOWARD A UNIFIED ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK: AN ANALYTICAL EVALUATION Richard V. McCarthy, Quinnipiac University, richard.mccarthy@quinnipiac.edu ABSTRACT that are combined to perform an actionable and coordinated view of the enterprise strategy, business Enterprise Architecture is a fairly new concept that processes, resource utilization and information flow. has been adopted by large organizations for legal, economic and strategic reasons. It has become a The Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework critical component of an overall IT governance (FEAF) [2] defines an enterprise architecture as ” a program to provide structure and documentation to strategic information asset base, which defines the describe the business processes, information flows, mission, the information necessary to perform the technical infrastructure and organizational mission and the technologies necessary to perform management of an information technology the mission, and the transitional processes for organization. Many different enterprise architecture implementing new technologies in response to the frameworks have begun to emerge over the past 10 changing mission needs. Enterprise architecture years. Three of the most widely used enterprise includes a baseline architecture, target