Enterprise Architecture at Work

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Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis

• Author: Marc Lankhorst et al.
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
  
• Page: 355
  
• Format: pdf

 







CONTENTS

1 Introduction to Enterprise Architecture  1
1.1 Architecture  1
1.2 Enterprise Architecture  3
1.3 The Architecture Process  4
1.4 Drivers for Enterprise Architecture  5
1.5 Summary  10

2 State of the Art  11
2.1 Enterprise Architecture and Other Governance Instruments  11
2.2 Methods and Frameworks  19
2.3 Description Languages . 29
2.4 Service-Oriented Architecture  38

3 Foundations  43
3.1 Getting to Grips with Architectural Complexity  43
3.2 Describing Enterprise Architectures  47
3.3 Pictures, Models, and Semantics  53
3.4 Summary  59

4 Communication of Enterprise Architectures  61
4.1 Introduction  61
4.2 System Development as a Knowledge Transformation Process  63
4.3 Conversation Strategies  68
4.4 Architectural Conversations  71
4.5 Summary  74

5 A Language for Enterprise Modelling  75
5.1 Describing Coherence . 76
5.2 Service Orientation and Layering  77
5.3 Three Dimensions of Modelling  78
5.4 Extensions  80
5.5 Business Layer Concepts  81
5.6 Application Layer Concepts  90
5.7 Technology Layer Concepts  93
5.8 Relations  97
5.9 Motivation Extension Concepts  100
5.10 Implementation & Migration Extension Concepts  104
5.11 Language Extension Mechanisms  106
5.12 ArchiMate and TOGAF  107
5.13 Modelling Example  109
5.14 Summary  113

6 Guidelines for Modelling  115
6.1 Introduction  115
6.2 The Modelling Process  116
6.3 Guidelines for Modelling  123
6.4 Readability and Usability of Models  137
6.5 Summary  145

7 Viewpoints and Visualisation  147
7.1 Architecture Viewpoints  147
7.2 Models, Views, and Visualisations  152
7.3 Visualisation and Interaction  158
7.4 Creating, Selecting, and Using Viewpoints  161
7.5 Basic Design Viewpoints  168
7.6 Viewpoints for the ArchiMate Extensions  186
7.7 ArchiMate and TOGAF Views  187
7.8 Summary  188

8 Architecture Analysis 189
8.1 Analysis Techniques  189
8.2 Quantitative Analysis  191
8.3 Portfolio Analysis  206
8.4 Functional Analysis  208
8.5 Summary  219

9 Architecture Alignment  221
9.1 Introduction  221
9.2 The GRAAL Alignment Framework  222
9.3 Alignment Phenomena  228
9.4 The Architecture Process  238
9.5 Summary  242

10 Tool Support  245
10.1 Reasons for Enterprise Architecture Tooling  245
10.2 The Architecture Tool Landscape  246
10.3 Tool Infrastructure  247
10.4 Workbench for Enterprise Architecture  248
10.5 View Designer Tool  254
10.6 Impact-of-Change Analysis Tool  262
10.7 Quantitative Analysis Tool  264
10.8 Commercial Tool Support for ArchiMate 265
10.9 Summary  266

11 Case Studies  269
11.1 Process and Application Visualisation at ABP 269
11.2 Application Visualisation at ABN AMRO  279
11.3 Design and Analysis at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration  290
11.4 Summary  302

12 Beyond Enterprise Architecture 303
12.1 The World Before Enterprise Architecture 303
12.2 The Advent of Enterprise Architecture  305
12.3 The Extended Enterprise  306

Appendix A – Language Meta-Model  309

Appendix B – Graphical Notation  313

Appendix C – Relations 317

Trademarks 323

References 325

Index 335

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