Expanding the Discipline of Enterprise Architecture Modeling to Business Intelligence with EA4BI

The current mainstream enterprise architecture modeling languages provide little syntax to describe the primary goal of any business intelligence (BI) project, i.e. the transformation of data into information and knowledge. As a consequence, modeling in most BI projects is done in isolation with the focus on design instead of architecture, leading to poor alignment with enterprise architecture and the goals it seeks to realize. This paper introduces a new enterprise architecture framework for BI called EA4BI. This framework addresses these issues by expanding the discipline of enterprise architecture modeling to BI. As an enterprise architecture framework and toolkit focused on BI, it facilitates and empowers end-to-end BI modeling, but also provides linkage to other enterprise architecture domains and modeling languages.