TITLE: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AT WORK: MODELLING, COMMUNICATIONS AND
ANALYSIS, 3RD EDITION

PUBLISHER: SPRINGER - LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/6a1VZv - RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF - RELEASE DATE: 2013/10/22
ISBN: 9783642296512 - STORE DATE: 2013
AUTHOR: MARC LANKHORST - DISKS: 02
SAVED MONEY: 43 EURO

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An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation's
structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way
The unambiguous specification and description of components and their
relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture
modelling language

Lankhorst and his co-authors present such an enterprise modelling language
that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and
allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They
provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural
practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and
heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these
architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing
insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to
evaluate the transition from `as-is' to `to-be', the authors also describe
analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an
architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as
performance and cost issues
The modelling language presented has been proven in practice in many reallife
case studies and has been adopted by The Open Group as an international
standard. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business
architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students
studying the field of enterprise architecture