6/26/16
IFSM 311 7380 Enterprise Architecture (2165)
Enterprise Architecture Justification Paper
CIOs are under increased pressure from business leaders to show the business relevance
and value of IT. Leading CIOs are using the EA process as a key to transforming IT and
addressing this challenge. The EA program institutes a collaborative, shared planning process.
EA teams work with business and IT stakeholders to define a future-state vision in terms of
requirements, principles and models. They then compare the future-state vision to the current
state, identifies gaps and plan investments to fill them. EA is not IT-focused, but business-driven
and comprehensive.
The business viewpoint identifies the processes and standards that the business functions with
every day. The application viewpoint describes the collaboration between different processes and
standards used by the organization. The information viewpoint describes and assembles the raw
data in the organization such as presentations, databases, and spreadsheets that an organization
needs to efficiently operate. The technology viewpoint describes the hardware, software,
programming and networking system that is used by an organization.
The future-state vision
helps coordinate the analysis of and develop a plan to harmonize required changes in business
functions and processes, information and data provisioning, technology capabilities and
application solutions. An effective EA program will help align IT investments with long-term
strategy, reduce risk, deliver higher-quality information and engineer adaptive solutions and
technical services.
The benefits of enterprise architecture are achieved through its direct and indirect contributions
to organizational goals.
There are several advantages using the Enterprise architecture model.
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