Enterprise Architectures
Management of Enterprise Architectures
Enterprise Architectures represent complex relationships in companies using an information model. Depending on the focus, an enterprise architecture includes strategic objectives, business workflows, processes, business building blocks, projects, applications, IT platforms and technologies.
An Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a comprehensive management approach aiming at holistically planning and controlling transformations in companies.
Questions & Challenges
An EAM initiative deals, among others, with the following questions and challenges:
- initiate necessary and appropriate transformations regarding processes and / or IT
- create project portfolio without business overlap and utilise synergies between projects
- establish an efficient and cooperative partnership between business and IT
EAM creates an strategic, conceptual and organisational framework to adapt an IT landscape based on the actual business needs.