Getting the most from your enterprise architecture

IT Professional

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 43-50

  Boster, Mark ^a   Liu, Simon ^b   Thomas, Rob ^c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c US Customs Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; PICTORIAL GRAPHICS; TEXTUAL PRESENTATIONS;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0034224596     PISSN: 15209202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6294.869382     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. "A Big-Picture Look at Enterprise Architectures," IT Professional, Jan./Feb. 1999; "Building an Enterprise Architecture Step by Step," July/Aug. 1999, Frank Armour, Steve Kaisler, and Simon Liu: A two-part series on building an enterprise architecture. Part I defines the components of an EA; Part II shows how to scope an EA project, set up the EA team, and develop a target EA.
2. Constructing Blueprints of Enterprise IT Architectures, Bernard Boar, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999: Provides guidance on notations and presents detailed templates for capturing IT architecture descriptions.
3. Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework, v 1.1, Sept. 1999, http://www.cio.gov/files/fedarch1.pdf: Provides a framework that governs EA activities and architecture products.
4. "The Role of the Architect in Software Development," D. Bredemeyer et al., HewlettPackard, Palo Alto, Calif., 2000: Technical report describing the architect's roles and competencies.
5. "A Standard for Architecture Description," R. Youngs, IBM Systems J., Vol. 38, No. 1, 1999: Provides an architecture representation scheme with examples.
6. Systems Architecting: Creating and Building Complex Systems, Eberhardt Rechtin, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1991: Describes foundations and basic principles of system architecting. Lots of heuristics.