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A Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture: Towards a Research Agenda

  • Sharmistha Kar;Rahul Thakurta
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.296-334
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    • 2021
  • Enterprise Architecture and its management focuses on the integration of business processes and IT infrastructure, and have received considerable attention from the academic and the practice audience. Despite this attention, some lacuna can be observed that questions some of the fundamental pillars of the domain. The current business environment demands in the response to digitalization add to further challenges which call for the need to reconceptualise enterprise architecture to be relevant to the emerging context. We respond to this call by presenting a comprehensive review of the literature concerning enterprise architecture and management to facilitate future work. Our review revealed various facets related to enterprise architecture and enterprise architecture management which we present and discuss here. Further, we also chart out possible areas of future explorations. By doing so, this research lays a foundation for continuing inquiry on enterprise architecture and management, contributing to new knowledge for the field.

Enterprise Architecture Framework Design for Embracing Application Development (애플리케이션 개발 지향 엔터프라이즈 아키텍처 프레임 워크 설계)

  • Lee, Seung-Bong;Choi, Jae-Hyun;Chong, Ki-Won
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.71-91
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    • 2006
  • Nowadays most enterprise want to organize all Information Technology elements for their vision and mission accomplishments by integration view Enterprise architecture is used by the solution. But IT is so more complex that it can't cover application development. This research defines software architecture framework by enterprise view and designs enterprise architecture framework for embracing application development. Software architecture framework consists of meta architecture, conceptual architecture, logical architecture, physical architecture. For enterprise architecture framework including enterprise software architecture framework, this research analyzes its perspectives and Views. After all, This research able to apply to systematic application development based on enterprise architecture and completely IT elements organization by enterprise view.

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EA as an Actionable Architecture

  • Jeong, Chanki
    • Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.133-142
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    • 2012
  • Gartner predicts that by 2012, 40% of EA programs will be stopped due to poor execution and the failure of delivering business value. An organization needs a practical solution to achieve an EA vision. The EA essential approach should be that of business service and process orientation than systems and IT orientation. We propose an Actionable Enterprise Architecture (AEA) which is based on BPM (Business Process Management) and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), and connected to service & process orientation and engineering. The architecture proposed provides traceability between service-oriented enterprise architecture and its solution. The proposed architecture can transform enterprise architecture from conceptual to physical levels (solutions) with a service and business process paradigm.

Design of Enterprise Architectures Framework using Architecture Unit and Domain Specific Method (도메인 기반 모델링과 구조 유니트를 이용한 기업 구조 프레임워크의 설계방법)

  • Chae Heekwon;Kim Kwangsoo;Kim Cheolhan;Choi Younghwan
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.21-41
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    • 2005
  • An Enterprise Architecture (EA) Framework is a tool which supports implementation of the Enterprise architecture that is used to enhance the interoperability of the IT components. In this paper, we propose a framework named as ENAE (ENterprise Architecture Framework) which combines enterprise architecture unit (AU), reference model, and association relationship between domain model. Architecture Unit is defined as a minimum set of a business process and its associated components such as application system and technical components. An EA can be designed and implemented by the aggregating the related AUs including association relationship between Architecture Units. Because UML model has limitations to describe business domain semantics because it is designed for general purpose, we adapt the DSM (Domain Specific Modeling) concept. We describe association relationship between Architecture Units designed by Domain Specific Modeling through Topic Map. Session 2 describes related works about Enterprise Architecture frameworks, Domain Specific Modeling, and Topic Map, while Session 3 explains components of the ENAF. Finally Session 4 shows the case study for implementation of the new Framework called ENAF.

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An Enterprise Alignment Model based on Enterprise Architecture (전사적 아키텍처 기반 전사적 정렬 모델)

  • Lee, Tae-Gong;Lee, Kil-Sub
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.113-128
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    • 2004
  • Up to the present, most of the previous works, related to the alignment of organizations, have been focused on the alignment between business and information technology. Also these works have been done with single element, e.g., view rather than with overall elements such as view, scope, and perspective for enterprise-wide integrated alignment. Meanwhile, an enterprise architecture is a blueprint that represents the structure of components of organizations and their interrelationships. Nowadays, many organizations attempt to make enterprise-wide alignment of business and information technology based on enterprise architecture. Unfortunately, the enterprise-wide alignment is still in a stage of not only conceptual level but also abstract level. Hence, this paper proposes a structured enterprise-wide alignment model to overcome the limitations of existing alignment models. We survey the existing works and propose the conceptual, the logical, and the physical models for enterprise-wide alignment which includes 3-dimensional elements such view, scope, and perspective based on enterprise architecture. Finally, we have shown that the proposed model is better than existing ones through comparing the characteristics of models.

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A Study on Building Web Services for Implementing Real Time Enterprise

  • Lee, Jung-Min
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.377-382
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    • 2007
  • To transform the enterprise system into the 'Real Time Enterprise' with respect to IT, I suggest the conceptual application model which is composed of pieces(components) extracted from different packaged applications working in a heterogeneous environment based on the 'business activity' in other words, business services provided by internal (inter-enterprise) and external (extended enterprise) application to support a business activity within in an enterprise and the design mechanism focusing service tier which acts as intermediate tier within application architecture.

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Proposing m-Government Service Architecture Design Using Enterprise Architecture in Mongolia

  • Erdenebold, Tumennast
    • Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.261-270
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    • 2014
  • The utilization of the Mobile Government system is having more than a few challenges including complexity of different mobile technologies, determining interoperability among existing systems and infrastructures, and establishing services with secured networks. To get over those challenges, integrated standard, innovative and comprehensive system architecture is required by the M-Government. Hence this study proposed reference EA framework for M-Government system in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of infrastructure deployment and integrate services among different government instructions. The study based on literature review, and current infrastructure and mobile network situation for delivering Government services of Mongolia. The study recommends innovative m-Government system framework used EA, and scope covered mobile service delivery area centered on G4C and C2G perspectives. The Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework has used in this research, and the proposed system service architecture defines the interoperable standards, infrastructure components, applications, and technologies for government institutions in Mongolia to aid interactions necessity among them to provide m-Service.

Toward Developing An Enterprise Architecture Orientation Model: Mapping the Present and Future Enterprise Architecture from the Alignment and Integration Perspective (엔터프라이즈 아키텍처 지향 모델 개발: 연계와 통합 관점에서 본 엔터프라이즈 현재와 미래 아키텍처 사상)

  • Son, Jeong-Son;Juhn, Sung-Hyun
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2010
  • Most enterprise information systems today are silo systems in that they are not properly aligned nor integrated with one another. Such silo systems result because enterprises lack an architectural perspective in the planning and development of the systems. This paper proposes an Enterprise Architecture Orientation Model as a framework for the analysis, planning and design of the architectural quality of enterprise information systems. The model decomposes enterprise architecture into two dimensions-alignment and integration, and specifies for each dimension the general development and evolution stages enterprises may traverse. The alignment dimension represents the vertical strategic alignment of the systems with the vision, mission, strategy and goals of the enterprise, and is analyzed in terms of the performance, capability, and strategy of the enterprise. The integration dimension, on the other hand, represents the horizontal and functional integration among the systems that span organizational functions and boundaries, and is analyzed in terms of such technological components as IT infrastructure, data, application, and business processes. The model combines the alignment and integration dimensions to form a two-dimensional conceptual space for mapping the architectural quality of the enterprise. It is proposed that an enterprise use the model to identify and understand its position now and in the future in the architectural quality of the enterprise information systems. It is also proposed that the model provides a tool for the planning and design of the transition from one stage to the next in the alignment and integration of the systems to reach an architectural maturity. At the end, the paper discusses how the model can be applied differently according to the strategic orientation of the enterprise. An example of the usage of the model is presented.

A Proposal of the Building Methodology for the Public Agency Enterprise Architecture thru the Project of MND-EA (구축사례를 통한 효율적 공공기관 EA 구축 방법론 제안)

  • Lee, Kwang-Je;Ahn, Jong-Deuk
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2008
  • The Law of effective building and operation for the information systems took effect at Dec. 2005. Every government and public agency have to build own enterprise architecture(EA), sometimes it's called the Information Technology Architecture(ITA), by this law. The Ministry of National Defense(MND) built the enterprise architecture(EA) during 2006. 12$\sim$2007. 11 by this law too. We knew the specific characters of the public sector thru the EA project. The public sector is less active than commercial sector and most members of the public sector are just looking on the project as a spectator. So the most of key for the success of EA is how to catch the Sponsorship and Participation of members. In this paper we propose the effective building methodology for the Enterprise Architecture of public agency applying the MND-EA. The other governments and public agencies can build own the EA easily by the proposed methodology.

Development of IT Architecture through Enterprise Architecture Planning - New Paradigm of Information Systems Planning - (전사적 아키텍처 기획(EAP)을 통한 IT 아키텍처의 구축 - 정보시스템 기획(ISP)의 새로운 패러다임 -)

  • Jang, Si-Young;Shin, Dong-Ik;Lee, Chung-Seop
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.159-180
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    • 2001
  • Despite the large and ongoing investments in information systems and technologies, many organizations still suffer from the lack of integration and interoperability of multiple information systems, In order to deal with these enduring problems, a number of government organizations and corporate firms in the United States have developed and maintained IT architectures through enterprise architecture planning. An IT architecture is a decision-making framework for IT planners and developers, establishing guidelines for the individual IT resource owners and users. It provides guidance to those involved in building and maintaining IT systems and infrastructure. Enterprise architecture planning represents a new paradigm of information systems planning in that it addresses the long-term view of the enterprise organization from top-level principles to detailed technology architectures. This paper explores a couple of cases in the successful implementation of IT architectures in both public and private sectors, and proposes a step-by-step methodology for building an effective IT architecture.

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