The Service-Oriented Enterprise: Learn Enterprise Architecture and Its Viable Services

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T. GravesThe Service-Oriented Enterprisehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9189-4_1

1. Basics – Enterprise Architecture

Tom Graves¹  

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Tetradian Consulting, Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia

 

What is the enterprise? What holds it together? What structures do we need to make it work better, to help it adapt to its changing circumstances and business environment?

These are the core questions underlying the formal discipline of enterprise architecture. It’s still a relatively new discipline: the term itself was coined only a few decades ago, building on previous ideas about “information systems architecture” and the like. There are several standards and formats – TOGAF ...