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Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. EA helps organizations structure IT ...

The Open Group, a technology consortium focused on interoperability and “boundary-less information flow,” on Monday is launching version 9 of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), which ...

In a previous column, “How Enterprise Architecture Raises IT's Game”, I promised to delve deeper into my thesis that companies could use enterprise architecture to move from what Len Fehskens of The ...

Among the many buzzwords or common phrases used in business, “blueprint” is on the list. In many cases, the word serves as a great visualization for how a company wants to structure teams, processes ...

John Zachman created the Zachman Framework more than two decades back, and in the process, defined the very essence of enterprise architecture -- and indeed, launched the EA profession as we know it.

In the beginning, no one needed enterprise architecture (EA) tools. A back of an envelope would do in the early years. Thomas Watson Jr., one of the leaders of IBM, supposedly said in 1940s, “I think ...

When London-based energy giant BP was developing its enterprise architecture management capability, it needed a way to measure progress while communicating IT’s business value to management. The ...

SOA projects are constantly beset by clashing business and technical agendas. Perhaps it's time to pull out the enterprise architect's best tool for addressing these conflicts: the Zachman Framework.

The Office of Management and Budget has laid ground rules for sharing successful technology across government to reduce duplication, speed modernization and save money. The ground rules — contained in ...