Applying Enterprise Architecture
by Peter Herzum

 
Abstract:
" Enterprise IT Architecture (or simply, enterprise architecture) is having a profound and pervasive impact on the way enterprises deal with IT. This impact is having a more significant effect that any other discipline in software history, and is paving the way for the maturity of IT as an industry.

Even amid an economic downturn, or possibly because of it, medium-sized and large companies are investing in enterprise architecture to support their enterprise-wide cost reductions or their latest IT or business initiatives.  Enterprise architecture is enabling a small but growing number of enterprises to manage IT as a business. This means the ability to explicitly drive strategic decisions with regard to IT based on facts or even metrics, to align business and IT strategy, and to make financial, managerial, and architecturally sound decisions about large and small initiatives, programs, and individual projects.."

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