Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

Chapter 1: Enterprise Architecture and Its Practicality

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline that many organizations have adopted or have been motivated to adopt over the last two decades or so due to its promises to bridge the gaps between business and technology. EA is the art of defining and categorizing the elements that compose an enterprise and defining the relationships among these elements to get useful information that supports making strategic and tactical decisions. There are several frameworks that guide EA implementation, but the most popular one is TOGAF®.

This chapter starts by highlighting what made TOGAF® the de facto standard for implementing EA and puts the spotlight on the problems that most TOGAF® practitioners ...