Enterprise Architecture A to Z

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Chapter 2

Enterprise Architecture Goals,

Roles, and Mechanisms

What does a corporate or institutional enterprise architecture corporate function address? What

are the available architecture frameworks? What can tools do?

is chapter covers, at a macro level, the following: (1) techniques for developing an enter-

prise architecture by using an architecture framework; (2) tools for using the framework to

instantiate the architecture; and (3) mechanisms for actually building out the architecture.

We begin in Section 2.1 by reviewing some motivations as to why enterprise architectures are

needed and some general approaches to the development effor ...