The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT AlignmentКНИГИ » ОС И БД
Название: The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment Автор: Svyatoslav Kotusev Издательство: SK Publishing Год: 2018 Страниц: 471 Язык: английский Формат: epub, pdf (conv) Размер: 14.9 MB
Enterprise architecture (EA) is a set of descriptions relevant to both business and IT intended to bridge the communication gap between business and IT stakeholders in organizations, facilitate information systems planning and improve business and IT alignment. Due to complex historical reasons, the notion of enterprise architecture was always surrounded by endless speculations, dangerous myths, non-existing best practices, unfulfilled promises, expensive failures and grave disappointments. Traditionally the entire discourse around enterprise architecture was dominated by shallow advice and faddish approaches (e.g. well-known EA frameworks) infinitely distant from the practical realities, but nonetheless aggressively promoted by commercially motivated consultancies and gurus. At the same time, realistic and trustworthy information on enterprise architecture is still incredibly hard to find in any available sources.
The main subject of this book is what is now generally known as “enterprise architecture”. However, the very term “enterprise architecture” is rather vague and used inconsistently. It has multiple different definitions in literature, means different things to different people and is often confused with the closely related terms “IT architecture” and “information systems architecture” (each of these terms is arguably even more obscure and used even more inconsistently). Without diving into complex terminological disputes, it would be fair to say that the key subject of this book is effective organization-wide information systems planning. In other words, regardless of the preferred terminology, this book describes how global IT planning is carried out in modern organizations.
Based on an extensive study of the actual industry best practices and existing EA literature, this book provides a unique, systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice integrated into a consistent logical picture. In particular, this book offers clear, research-based, conceptually sound and practically actionable answers to the key questions related to enterprise architecture:
What is the meaning of enterprise architecture and an EA practice? What processes constitute established EA practices and how do they work? What EA artifacts are used in successful EA practices and how? What is the best way to structure architecture roles and functions? What software tools and modeling languages are necessary for enterprise architecture? How to initiate an EA practice in organizations from scratch and evolve it? Where do current EA best practices originate from? This book is organized in a highly structured, sequential manner and does not require any prior knowledge of enterprise architecture. The book is intended for a broad audience of people interested in enterprise architecture including practicing and aspiring architects, architecture managers, academic EA researchers, EA lecturers and students in universities.
Скачать The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment
Навигация
Вход на сайт
Реклама
The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment 
