Welcome to the Enterprise Architecture international research stream. This page provides a centralised point from which academics and practitioners can access information relating to enterprise architecture.
Enterprise Architecture is an enterprise-wide, integrating framework which incorporates: business architecture (strategy, governance, organisation, process); data/information architecture; application (systems) architecture; and technology (IT) architecture.
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Overview of Enterprise Architecture 
This brief overview of the topic is provided in order to focus and stimulate contributions.
Note: All the references cited in this overview can be found in "references " below.
Positioning Enterprise
Architecture Business Themes and Enterprise
Architecture
The Four Dimensions of Enterprise
Architecture
The Four Domains of Enterprise Architecture
The Architecture Analogy
John
Zachman - "Concepts of
Framework for Enterprise Architecture"John
Zachman - "Enterprise
Architecture and Legacy Systems"Technological Support for Architecture
Development and Maintenance
The Chief Architect's Bookshelf
The Enterprise Architecture AssociationEnterprise Architect's Discussion List
Join a free association of Enterprise Architects from around the world by subscribing to the Enterprise Architecture discussion list.
NB: It is very important that you put *ENTARC* in the SUBJECT of your message and SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Enterprise Architect's Chat Room
Coming Soon: A real-time meeting place where architects can meet to exchange ideas, problems, and solutions.
This link is already available but is unstable at this time. Feel free to try it out. Arrange to meet a fellow architect from anywhere in the world in the chat room and solve some problems.
Research into Enterprise ArchitectureIn "Information Systems Management Issues in the 1990s ," MIS Quarterly, Volume 15, Number 4, December 1991, pp475-499, F Niederman, JC Brancheau , and JC Wetherbe recommend the following as a useful research theme:
"Rigorous examination of information architecture, can (1) categorize and describe techniques for creating firm-wide information architectures; (2) clarify organizational circumstances in which an information architecture is of greatest value; and (3) link initiation, development, and evaluation of information architecture to technology infrastructure requirements and to theoretical bases for predicting successful enterprise-wide application of IT. Similar research efforts might be directed at solving problems related to strategic planning and organizational alignment."
Research along these and other pertinent lines will be welcome here; particularly if they pertain to the wider field encompassed by Enterprise Architecture. Contributions can be from academics or practitioners.
Theory 
Enterprise
Modeling Techniques
Current and past research papers and findings.
Case studies from the field.
Related Web Sites The
Enterprise Integration Laboratory (EIL) IFIP/IFAC
Task Force on Enterprise Integration
Enterprise
Integration and Modeling (Rensselaer Polytechnic)
Enterprise
Wide Architecture StrategyNew
York Life - Enterprise Architecture (under construction)Enterprise
Architecture: An Overview
Stanford University Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise
Architecture Conference (Orlando, Dec 1997)
Enterprise
Information Architecture
IS
World - IT and Business Processes
Business
Process Reengineering
Industry Reference Architectures This section will deal with generic architectures that apply to specific industries, e.g. Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing. Vendors of Industry Reference Architectures are not precluded from contributing, but such contributions must add value to researchers and practitioners and not merely be advertising.
InsuranceBanking
Manufacturing
Retail
BibliographyA list of useful references to the existing literature relating to Enterprise Architecture.
This will initially be provided in two orders: by author; and by contributor. The latter could be very interesting, e.g. one might hope to find James Brancheau's list of articles which have most influenced his thinking on Enterprise Architecture, etc. Would people be prepared to provide such lists?
Alphabetical By
Contributor
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