Formulating the Enterprise Architecture Compliance Problem

We start from the Klaus Julisch’s (2008) IT compliance problem definition and make an attempt to formulate the enterprise architecture compliance problem (EACP). The challenging issues comprise the complexity of the law phenomenon, compliance frameworks and methodologies to check EA for noncompliance with laws and regulations. We hold that a compliance methodology should take into account “shared” relevant laws and a requirements engineering framework. We reflect mainly on the view of enterprise architects on legal informatics and a vision driven approach on requirements elicitation in the context of enterprise engineering, which was proposed by Albertas Čaplinskas (2009). Then we raise a question of placing EACP into the Bonazzi-Hussami-Pigneur regulation and IT alignment framework (2009).