An Integrated Enterprise Architecture Framework for Business-IT Alignment

When different businesses want to integrate part of their processes and IT, they need to relate their enterprise architecture frameworks. An enterprise architecture framework (EAF) is a conceptual framework for describing the architecture of a business and its information technology (IT), and their alignment. In this paper we provide an integration among some well-known EAFs (Zachman, Four-domain, TOGAF and RM-ODP) and produce an integrated EAF (IEAF) that can be used as common framework to communicate about EAFs of differrent businesses and relate them to each other.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Novica Zarvic, Roel Wieringa
• Keywords: CAISE 2006, Conceptual Framework, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Information Management, Well-known Eafs