Process-Centric Architecture for Enterprise Software Systems

Chapter 7

Benefits of Process-Centric Architecture

7.1 Objectives

■  To understand why an enterprise should go with process-centric architecture (PCA)

■  To understand the benefits from the business perspective

■  To understand the IT benefits

7.2 Business Benefits

There are significant benefits to the business from the PCA style of IT systems. These provide compelling answers as to why PCA is a style worth applying to IT systems in an enterprise. The key benefits are discussed in Section 7.2.1, Section 7.2.2, Section 7.2.3, Section 7.2.4, Section 7.2.5 and Section 7.2.6.

7.2.1 Business-IT Alignment

Through the focus on and the centrality of the business process in the architecture, business and IT systems align better in this ...