Research and Markets: Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c659e0/enterprise_archite) has announced the addition of the "Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide" report to their offering.

Enterprise architecture makes a vital contribution to the running of a large organisation. It was originally developed in order to manage a rapid growth in the cost and complexity of IT systems, using knowledge gained from software structure and design. For this reason, enterprise architecture is often thought of as a component of IT governance. However, the discipline has evolved and extended its scope. Enterprise architecture is now about structuring business capabilities and processes in order to support your long-term business strategy. Effective application of enterprise architecture will enable you to improve your productivity and performance.

This pocket guide offers you an invaluable introduction to this business-critical subject. It explains the function of enterprise architecture within the organisation, looks at the skills needed within the enterprise architecture team and provides an overview of the most common enterprise architecture frameworks. As the author emphasises, enterprise architecture is not about creating models and designs for their own sake, but about using these structures to serve the needs of the business.

Benefits to Business Include:

• Make better decisions
• As a discipline, enterprise architecture helps companies to understand the way that their component systems (e.g. security, business continuity or performance management) all fit together. The pocket guide will show you how enterprise architecture can lead to better decision making
• Improve business effectiveness
• Enterprise architecture maintains a holistic view of the organisation, taking into account different issues, such as efficient use of resources and reliable delivery of services, and showing how they relate to one another. This pocket guide explains how to build up a comprehensive overview of the enterprise that can be used to assess the trade-offs involved across various domains and priorities. This will help you to improve your organisation's integration and effectiveness
• Improve your ability to manage risks
• Enterprise architecture has an important function in risk management, and can help your organisation to achieve compliance with regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Basel II
• Improve your ability to manage change
• If you want your organisation to be more than the sum of its parts, buy this pocket guide today!

About the Author:

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management for almost three decades. His clients in Europe, Australia and the US cover a broad range of industries, including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based service.

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1: What is Enterprise Architecture?

Chapter 2: Business Drivers and Benefits

Chapter 3: Architecture Maturity

Chapter 4: The Architecture Team

Chapter 5: Architecture and Governance

Chapter 6: Frameworks, Methods and Tools

Chapter 7: Architecture in Practice

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