The Open Group, a technology consortium focused on interoperability and “boundary-less information flow,” on Monday is launching version 9 of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), which ...

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In a previous column, “How Enterprise Architecture Raises IT's Game”, I promised to delve deeper into my thesis that companies could use enterprise architecture to move from what Len Fehskens of The ...

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) was developed in the 1980s with a strong focus on the information systems landscape of organizations. Since those days, the scope of the discipline has ...

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Building an enterprise architecture is not rocket science. Its goal is to create a unified IT environment of standardized hardware and software systems across the firm, with tight links to the ...

SOA projects are constantly beset by clashing business and technical agendas. Perhaps it's time to pull out the enterprise architect's best tool for addressing these conflicts: the Zachman Framework.

When different businesses want to integrate part of their processes and IT, they need to relate their enterprise architecture frameworks. An Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) is a conceptual ...

The Office of Management and Budget has laid ground rules for sharing successful technology across government to reduce duplication, speed modernization and save money. The ground rules — contained in ...