Enterprise Systems Architecture
Kerven Nelson
Nova Southeastern University
Enterprise system Architecture (ESA) is the overall IT system architecture of an organization. This architecture is the key part of managing and evolving IT systems, and therefore the business operations, of an organization. It consists of the architectures of individual systems and their relationships in the perspective of an organization. The Air Force has a limited idea of what enterprise architecture is, how it works, and most importantly, why it is needed.
The point of this paper is to discuss these key questions, to present some guidelines for implementation of enterprise architecture, and make people aware of some of the possible consequence of enterprise architecture development. Architecture is known to be necessary when considering the design of a new building. However, architecture is equally as important when considering the design and creation of a composite system within a business. Whether a business is expanding or new area is being planned, the same issues must be considered (e.g. integrated services, interoperable systems, and efficient operations). The end result of architecture is the arrangement of mechanisms under familiar principles that ease change management and ensure integrated and successful operation. The Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) council considers an enterprise as an organization supporting a defined business scope and task and contains
To conduct an analysis of the systems requirements we will first need to understand how the company’s enterprise system is set-up. An enterprise system is the overall combination of computer hardware and software that a business uses to organize and run its operations. (What is enterprise system?)
While this is a good opportunity to build a business and has a lot of potential Ralph has hired an Enterprise Architecture Consultant to provide a solid Business Model which will allow for more consistency and will provide a foundation for more growth in the market. The Consultant will research the company, how it currently operates and will identify areas where business process standardization would provide benefits to the organization.
1.In your opinion, what are three main topics of chapter one? How do you know if you have a good foundation?
The Architecture Vision is the early phase of Enterprise Architecture and provides high lever view of Product. This phase also supports Stakeholder Commutation by providing full architecture definition. This document shows contents of Architecture vision.
To consider what enterprise architecture means, it is important to understand its origin. All architecture within information technology can track its ancestry back to the lessons learned from building architecture. Enterprise Architecture is the description and visualization of the structure, a blueprint if you will, of a given area of contemplation, its elements and their collaborations and interrelations links vision, strategy and feasibility, focusing on usability durability and effectiveness. Architecture enables construction, defining principles, rules, standards and guidelines,
Chief Information Officer or generally known as CIO is an official title given to the individual in charge of all the Information Technology accessible inside of the association or the organization. This title was initially utilized inside the Information Technology Department. The principle reason for the CIO is to guide all the accessible data to every one of the divisions in the association consistently furthermore when the information is critically required. The CIO is likewise doled out with the errand of executing all the offered work to accomplish the organization's objectives. The Chief Information Officer likewise examines the whole accessible data framework to recognize new headings in growing the organization's
Of the many EA frameworks FEAF has the most coverage but it still does not cover all the desired aspects of EA. The weakness in FEAF is that it is designed for federal agencies. While this is good it does not necessarily fit corporations unless you are catering to Federal Agencies. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses FEAF to build their business architecture, data architecture, application architecture and technology architecture. These architectures are what maintain the CMS EA tool called Troux Architect. This tool allows for the alignment Office of Management and Budget's FEAF. (1)
This paper addresses relevant considerations for the assessment of an enterprise-level business system and starts with a discussion of which information-gathering methods can be used in analyzing the requirements for such a system. This is followed by a synopsis of business process mapping methods that should be used in analysis activities along with a discussion of which business process mapping tools should be used in documenting the analysis.
According to Bologa, Faur, and Ghisoiu (2010), Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a methodology that incorporate the processes of the domain to be automated; the software applications to be designed; the data and information to be gathered; and the technologic models to be conceived. In addition, Giachetti, R.E. (2010) suggested that the term enterprise is a whole complex, socio-technical system that includes not only information, processes, and technologies, but also people.
This article discusses the role of business process modeling in combination with EA processes within the context of ERP projects. The examination of business process modeling within this setting is closely related to the Business Architecture aspect of EA modeling. The paper discusses the challenges of aligning Business Principles with the goals of the business and to reduce them by careful examination and consideration.
Enterprise architecture (EA) are implemented to serve two major functions 1) to provide a framework to collaborate between business and IT processes 2) EA provides a crucial link for bringing transformational changes (Knorr & LeClare, 2011).
There are many things that have to happen correctly in the design phase in order for an enterprise-level business system to be effective. In order for the system to be effective, it should align with strategy, reduce costs, improve productivity, promote timely execution, enable better decision making, leverage emerging technologies, ensure acceptable levels of control and risk management, optimize the skills and capabilities of the organization, and promote collaboration across the extended enterprise. (The
Enterprise Architecture is the link between strategy and implementation. It is a top down view of the structure of systems; it includes the fundamental organization of a system, embodied by its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles guiding its design. It can be defined as:
Assessing the Functional and Technical Architecture of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems In Higher Education
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