Enterprise Application Development
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Enterprise Application Development can be hard work and complex. With the right experts they can develop the best type of EA. With a good Enterprise Architecture strategy it provides organizations with the latest innovations in business processes, organizational structure, information systems, and technologies. It will also include standard language and best practices for business processes, including analyzing where processes can be integrated or eliminated throughout the organization. Any EA strategy’s ultimate goal is to improve the effectiveness, timelessness, and reliability of business information.
Benefits of enterprise architecture
EA can offer support for changes and re-structuring, in general, through serious organizational changes, mergers, or acquisitions. Also useful for bringing more discipline into the organization by standardizing and consolidating more constant processes. Enterprise Architecture is also used in system development, IT management and decision-making, and IT risk management to eliminate errors, system failures, and security breaches. It can also help businesses navigate complex IT structures or make IT more accessible to other business units.
- Allowing more collaboration between IT and business units
- Allowing business the capability to prioritize investments
- Making it simple to evaluate current architecture up against long-term goals
- Establishing processes to evaluate and procure technology
- Provides a complete outlook of IT architecture and business units externally of IT
- Providing a benchmarking framework to compare outcomes on other organizations or standards
Enterprise architecture methodologies
Enterprise architecture as a framework can be vague since it’s meant to address the entire organization instead of individual needs, problems, or business units. Therefore, several frameworks exist to help companies effectively implement and track EAP.
According to CompTIA, these are the four leading Enterprise Architect Planning (EAP) methodologies:
- The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF): TOGAF provides principles for designing, planning, implementing, and governing enterprise IT architecture. The TOGAF framework helps businesses create a standardized EA approach with a common vocabulary, recommended standards, compliance methods, suggested tools and software, and a method to define best practices. The TOGAF framework is widely popular as an enterprise architecture framework, and according to The Open Group, it’s been adopted by more than 80 percent of the world’s leading enterprises.
- The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: The Zachman framework is named after one of the founders of enterprise architecture, and it’s another popular EA methodology. It’s better understood as a “taxonomy,” according to CompTIA, and it spans six architectural focal points and six primary stakeholders to help standardize and define the IT architecture components and outputs.
- Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF): FEAF was introduced in 1996 to respond to the Clinger-Cohen Act, which introduced mandates for federal agencies’ IT effectiveness. It’s designed for the U.S. government, but it can also be applied to private companies that want to use the framework.
- Gartner: After acquiring The Meta Group in 2005, Gartner established best EAP practices and adapted them into the company’s general consulting practices. While it’s not an individual framework, CompTIA recognizes it as a “practical” methodology that focuses on business outcomes with “few explicit steps or components.”
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