Saturday, June 4, 2022

 

Enterprise Architecture framework will provide blueprint for an enterprise to use and create an architecture. It provides principles, practices, tools, and approaches that help enterprise to follow and improve their standard.

Enterprise architecture majorly contains four types



Business Architecture: This will take a lead role to defines the business strategy and governance to develop proper architecture to achieve organizational goal

Data Architecture:  This is core for organizational data strategy. It defines organization infrastructure like how data can be collected, transferred, and stored securely

Application Architecture:  This defines technology, pattern and systems can be used in applications and how each system can interact each other to achieve business goal. It will help us to created logical and physical architecture

Technology Architecture: This will be helpful for organization to define tools and technology which will be helpful to achieve business goals.

EA Frameworks

1. Zachman Framework

This is an enterprise ontology and is a fundamental structure for enterprise architecture which provides a formal and structured way of viewing and defining an enterprise.

This framework typically represented as a 6x6 matrix.

The rows of this framework on describing six perspectives interrogatives of What, how, where, who, when and why. The columns of the framework describes specific viewpoint of a group of stakeholders





More details https://www.zachman.com/

 

2.TOGAF (The Open Group Architectural Framework)

A generic framework for developing architecture to meet different business needs. This is Widley used framework. This framework can be applied large to small enterprise.

This standard enforce business goals as architecture drives and provide set of practices as follows

                ADM (Architecture Development Method)

                ADM Guidelines and Technique

                Architecture Content.

                Enterprise Continuum

                Capability Framework

More details https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf9-doc/arch/

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