EA Analysis and Application – An Exploratory Study.pdf

Enterprise Architecture Analysis and Application – An Exploratory Study Tobias Bucher Ronny Fischer Stephan Kurpjuweit Robert Winter Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen {tobias.bucher ¦ ronny.fischer ¦ stephan.kurpjuweit ¦ robert.winter}@unisg.ch Abstract 2. Enterprise Architecture Enterprise architecture (EA) gained growing According to ANSI/IEEE Std 1471-2000, importance as a key issue of information management architecture is defined as the “fundamental in recent years. This paper is aimed at contributing to organization of a system, embodied in its components, EA methodology by a systemization of EA analysis their relationships to each other and the environment, techniques and EA applications. These findings are and the principles governing its design and evolution” compared with current EA practice collected by means [11]. EA therefore is understood as (1) the of an exploratory study. fundamental organization of a government agency or a corporation, either as a whole, or together with partners, suppliers and / or customers (“extended 1. Introduction enterprise”), or in part (e.g. a division, a department, etc.) as well as (2) the principles governing its design With growing