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	Extending the RUP with the Enterprise Architecture Discipline
		Enterprise architects are concerned with how their work impacts multiple systems for both the present, in the form of "as is" models, and for the future, in the form of "to be" models.
		Enterprise architecture is not just about modeling the "big picture." Models are an important part of enterprise architecture efforts because they help depict and convey the enterprise architecture, but it is more accurate to say that enterprise architecture is represented in the structure and distribution of technical and business assets of the enterprise.
		A reference architecture is a working example designed and proven for use in a particular domain, together with supporting artifacts to enable their use; it at least serves as an example and at best provides the basis for creating an application architecture.
	www.enterpriseunifiedprocess.com /essays/enterpriseArchitecture.html (2042 words)

	Enterprise architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Enterprise architecture is the practice of applying a comprehensive and rigorous method for describing a current and/or future structure and behavior for an organization's processes, information systems, personnel and organizational sub-units, so that they align with the organization's core goals and strategic direction.
		Enterprise architecture is a key component of the Information technology governance process at any organization of significant size.
		Enterprise architect - the roles and duties of practitioners of enterprise architecture
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enterprise_architecture (1690 words)

	E-Business enterprise architecture solutions
		Enterprise data modeling enables an organization to scope and agree on information requirements for major information systems efforts, such as the acquisition of financial management software, new systems development efforts, and the longer-term Information Technology implementation plan, which will seek to integrate information across multiple current systems.
		Enterprise data modeling involves different sets of organizational users, as analysts review data requirements across business areas, determine common patterns of data usage and develop a data model that is representative of the enterprise.
		Enterprise Architecture, in terms of data modeling, aids in discovering common patterns of data usage, and reduces overlapping current flat file and table elements into a simpler set of standard concepts, converged for better information systems flexibility and integration.
	www.rt-consulting.com /enterprise_architecture.html (1268 words)

	Enterprise Architecture Charter
		Enterprise Architecture is not a one-time event, nor limited to specific projects or agencies.
		Enterprise Architecture is critical because it provides the plan for the integration of information and services at the design level across agency boundaries.
		The Architecture Team is responsible for facilitating the enterprise architecture process, creating and maintaining deliverables, communicating architecture standards to all interested parties, and reviewing technology infrastructure projects for compliance to the architecture.
	www.state.nd.us /ea/about/charter/charter.html (1806 words)

	Agile Enterprise Architecture
		The goal for agile enterprise architects is to ensure that this happens in an effective manner, to ensure that the needs of the business stakeholders are understood and anticipated, and to support project teams in their development efforts.
		A good enterprise architecture model will depict the organization both as it is today and as it is envisioned in the future, and will map the various views representing the architecture to one another.
		The implication is that enterprise architects may need to become nomadic, moving between their “home base” to the work areas of the project team(s) that they support.
	www.agiledata.org /essays/enterpriseArchitecture.html (3434 words)

	Troux : Products : Enterprise Architecture and Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Enterprise Architecture (EA) has emerged as the number-one strategy for large organizations to manage complexity in their IT operations.
		Forward-thinking Global 2000 enterprises and U.S. federal government agencies are also under a growing mandate to document their IT infrastructure and to create roadmaps for future acquisitions that are aligned with standards, compliance requirements, and interdepartmental integrations.
		Enterprise Architecture and Planning is part of Troux's IT Governance Suite which is enabled by Troux's leading-edge IT Governance Platform.
	www.troux.com /products/eap (334 words)

	Enterprise Architecture (EA) & Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM)
		This is because, at the enterprise level, decision-makers must not only consider the investment options under their control but also take into account how the alternatives they have analyzed affect, and are affected by, other components of the enterprise.*
		Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) in an integrated strategic investment planning, portfolio risk analysis and operating system for scheduling, settlement and risk management that facilitates tight alignment of strategic objectives with operational actions, covering business and technology.
		The corporate Enterprise Architecture can deliver the necessary information on the operational and technical risks.If a portfolio is underperforming because of for example, depressed prices, and cash flow is not enough to cover debt, CEO’s need to know when that cash flow is going to turn around.
	www.enterprise-architecture.info /EPM.htm (842 words)

	Enterprise Architecture Tools, Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD)
		The focus of enterprise architecture efforts is now shifting to become more holistic, thereby necessitating the use of comprehensive modeling tools to analyze and optimize the portfolio of business strategies, organizational structures, business processes / tasks and activities, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructure.
		Important to adoption of an enterprise architectural approach is the availability of tools to support the development, storage, presentation and enhancement of enterprise architecture representations.
		Enterprise architecture management is essential to describe complex IT systems and to develop standards that enable business competitiveness and flexibility.
	www.enterprise-architecture.info /EA_Tools.htm (4846 words)

	MF Bliki: EnterpriseArchitecture
		Enterprise architecture is a different topic, how to organize multiple applications in an enterprise into a coherent whole.
		The problem for central architecture groups is that they are driven by IT management, but the applications they are looking to organize are driven by business needs.
		If the business sponsor is told the application will ship four months late in order to conform to the enterprise architectural plans, then they are motivated to back up the application team when they say no (spelled "we'll get around to it later").
	www.martinfowler.com /bliki/EnterpriseArchitecture.html (681 words)

	Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture Challenges
		Driving the classification of the enterprise architecture from management reports down to the artifacts and assets of the enterprise and knowing how, when, and where they are used.
		The project portfolios are generally not constructed with the enterprise architecture roadmap in mind.
		But the focus is on managing change, and the enterprise architecture must share in the challenge of continual self-reinvention.
	www.ftponline.com /ea/magazine/summer2004/online/qa (571 words)

	Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership
		Enterprise Architects should be the police of the enterprise running around telling folks to put down that mouse...
		Wouldn't it be better if enterprises would allow for folks to reconfigure their presentations for a particular audience.
		Enterprise Architecture: Practice is sometimes a bad idea..
	duckdown.blogspot.com (1174 words)

	Enterprise Architecture: An Overview
		This article discusses Enterprise Architectures as they relate to the broad decisions that must be made by an organization as it creates its organizational information support system.
		The concept of Enterprise Architecture has been defined and discussed variously in extant articles in practitioner and research publications.
		In our view, this architecture should be the guiding architecture for the design and development of information systems (IS) in a ‘complex’ organization that is embarking on the design of its Enterprise Architecture.
	www.kmbook.com /enterarch.htm (1859 words)

	Overview: Enterprise Architecture Summit
		Enterprise architects must also accommodate a rapidly shifting business landscape as their organizations continue to source more services externally, demand ever closer integration with customers, partners and suppliers, and implement regulatory change – all while improving the organization's competitive position in the marketplace.
		Enterprise architecture is an exercise in balancing competing and conflicting demands.
		However, a small number of enterprise architecture teams have overcome these challenges to become leaders both in the eyes of their colleagues inside the organization, and their peers in the industry.
	www.gartner.com /2_events/conferences/eae1.jsp (396 words)

	Enterprise architecture process framework
		Enterprise architects often understand the content of enterprise architecture as their field of specialisation but they are uncertain about the processes required to operate an enterprise architecture environment.
		Compliance to enterprise architecture governance is ensured through defining process gateways that control the entry and exit points of enterprise architecture services.
		Part of the enterprise architecture governance should be to define and agree the interfaces with other role players.
	blogs.ittoolbox.com /eai/practices/archives/enterprise-architecture-process-framework-6670 (1080 words)

	Enterprise Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Enterprise architecture is the discipline to appropriately define and leverage these capabilities within the complexities of government.
		NASCIO’s architecture videos are intended to serve as a resource for CIOs, architects and other IT experts in their efforts to present a compelling message describing the value of enterprise architecture.
		They may also be used in new employee orientation and the introduction of enterprise architecture concepts to policy makers, government staff, and potentially the public.
	www.nascio.org /hotIssues/EA (1029 words)

	Enterprise Architecture
		The Department's Baseline Enterprise Architecture was developed with significant participation from the Agencies.
		The Federated Enterprise Architecture assumes that the Department and its agencies have Enterprise Architectures that are integrated and function cooperatively.
		A parallel, coordinated effort is underway to develop the agencies' enterprise architectures to cover the functions that are agency-specific.
	www.dol.gov /cio/programs/itmanagement/architecture.htm (313 words)

	The Open Group Architecture Forum
		The Architecture Forum has developed and is evolving a comprehensive enterprise architecture framework to enable businesses to achieve the right balance between IT efficiency and business innovation, while also taking into consideration the constantly changing needs of the business environment.
		IT customer organizations who wish to base their Enterprise Architecture work on the open, industry standard TOGAF 8 "Enterprise Edition" can now procure tools, training, and professional services on the basis of certified conformance with the TOGAF 8 standards.
		OMG: The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) and The Open Group Architecture Forum have detailed in a joint white paper the synergies between The Open Group's TOGAF ADM and OMG's Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), highlighting the benefits of using both methods to develop an architecture using the TOGAF ADM and then implement that architecture using MDA.
	www.opengroup.org /architecture (574 words)

	FEAC Institute - enterprise architecture training and certification
		The FEAC Institute is an Enterprise Architecture Training and Certification Institute that offers Programs leading to Certification in Enterprise Architecture in both the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEA(F)) for civilian agencies and commercial sectors.
		This includes a Practicum Course where students create a portion of an actual Enterprise Architecture and be able to understand that work in an overall Enterprise Architecture context for their organization or agency.
		Each Practicum Enterprise Architecture project represents a piece of an enterprise architecture that directly relates to their work environment, either as a client, contractor or an internal Enterprise Architecture effort.
	www.feacinstitute.org (409 words)

	Enterprise Software Architecture Workshop - Australia - Home
		The key focus areas include understanding of multiple EAFs (Enterprise Architecture Frameworks), Component based product line, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which are key for the companies to reducing IT costs, ensuring system longevity and enhancing productivity.
		The demand for Enterprise Architecture and system development is rising in cost effective markets.
		The roles of Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect are pure technical career paths, which lead to top rewards and professional recognition.
	www.icmgworld.com /corp/events/australia/sa_workshop/home.asp (169 words)

	Architecture World '06 - Enterprise Architecture Strategies
		The Software Architecture is getting recognized as a critical element for realizing practical vision of the IT system for Fortune 2000 companies.
		The conference is focused on enterprise software architecture as a specialty, which is distinct from software engineering, programming and project management and very critical for the enterprise success.
		The key focus areas include understanding of EAF (Enterprise Architecture Frameworks), and Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Component based product line and Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) which are key for the End-User Companies to reducing IT costs, ensuring system longevity and enhancing productivity.
	www.icmgworld.com /corp/events/architecture_world/sa_workshop/home.asp (254 words)

	Federal Enterprise Architecture (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To transform the Federal government to one that is citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is developing the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), a business-based framework for government-wide improvement.
		In contrast to many failed “architecture” efforts in the past, the FEA is entirely business-driven.
		Led by OMB, the purpose of this effort is to identify opportunities to simplify processes and unify work across the agencies and within the lines of business of the Federal government.
	www.whitehouse.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /omb/egov/a-1-fea.html (176 words)

	Enterprise Architect - UML Design Tools and UML CASE tools for software development
		Enterprise Architect combines the power of the latest UML 2.1 specification with a high performance, intuitive interface, to bring advanced modeling to the desktop, and to the complete development and implementation team.
		Enterprise Architect is a comprehensive UML analysis and design tool, covering software development from requirements gathering, through to the analysis stages, design models, testing and maintenance.
		Enterprise Architect supports this process in an easy to use, fast and flexible environment.
	www.sparxsystems.com.au /ea.htm (1326 words)

	Amazon.com: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture: Books: Martin Fowler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned.
		Wizened enterprisers looking for new material will not find much new here, but surely the point of patterns catalogues are to get down on paper the practices of those same wizened enterprisers, not to strike off in new directions.
		A newcomer to enterprise development will definitely get a lot out of this, as the underpinnings to the plethora of modern enterprise applications are laid bare.
	www.amazon.com /Patterns-Enterprise-Application-Architecture-Fowler/dp/0321127420 (2876 words)

	Enterprise Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		"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.
		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.
	users.iafrica.com /o/om/omisditd/denniss/text/entparch.html (498 words)

	Enterprise Architecture
		Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a framework for decision-making.
		This is an opportunity to look into the emerging Enterprise Architecture Program for Washington State; how it is supporting Enterprise Wide decision-making and bringing state agencies together to solve common business and technology problems.
		We will also focus on the relationships between statewide and agency Enterprise Architecture programs and how agencies have successfully used their EA framework to drive enterprise level decision-making.
	www.ipma-wa.com /prodev/2005/ea_20050620.htm (791 words)

	Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments
		Enterprise Architecture Consulting Services (EACS) is a proven source for research and best practices based EA measurement tools, EA development and implementation programs and strategic advisory services.
		Enterprise Architecture Consulting Services is working close together with the research people from the Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD).
		Enterprise Architecture Consulting Services professionals deliver EA advisory services via the web, at client sites and at EA leadership conferences around the world.
	www.enterprise-architecture.info (625 words)

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