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Chapter 6
Enterprise Architecture Tools
is chapter provides a brief survey of (commercial) architecture description/development tools.
e positioning of the tool in the overall context of the synthesis of the enterprise architec-
ture is shown in Figure 6.1. Enterprise architectures aim at capturing detailed information
about the business, the data, the systems, and the technology of an enterprise or some specific
domain within the enterprise. Recent trends in enterprise architecture deal with the desire of
Existing IT assets
and Processes
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Strategy
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Practices
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