A Final Note
In this short book, we have attempted to introduce some experiences from the field, best practices, and guidance with a technical/commercial viewpoint in areas we felt would stimulate the architectural mindset. We also presented many diagrams to illustrate concepts and provide further areas to explore.
We provided a generic overview of enterprise architecture (EA), a term we use interchangeably with enterprise system architecture (ESA), where the emphasis is on ensuring that the technology landscape is providing value to the business and using the stack to allow mapping in a layered approach for traceability between the layers.
The layered approach, i.e., the stack, presents an overview of how the technology aligns to the business operating ...