Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a common practice in organizations that need to have a model of how their business relates to the supporting IT-landscape in order to make informed decisions to enhance the enterprise architecture (EA). Creating and maintaining such an EA model is an expensive and time consuming but crucial task in today’s organizations. This has been recognised by bo...

This Article presents the analysis– of the Zachman Framework for enterprise Architecture and its mapping onto the Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) framework / ISO IS15704:2000 requirements. Aspects covered concern the ability of the Zachman Framework to cover the complete scope of the GERAM meta-mode, such as life cycle / life history concepts, modelling fra...

As the most enterprises are relying on relations to other enterprises, it is relevant to consider enterprise architecture for inter-organisational relations particularly those relations involving technology. This has been conceptualised as Extended Enterprise Architecture, and a systematic review of this discipline is the topic of this paper. This paper is taking a point of departure in general...

Enterprises have to react to changes with an increasing speed in order to stay competitive. Many approaches support the modeling of enterprise architectures but lack an evolution of enterprise architectures through demonstrating a transformation path from one architecture state to another. Enterprises know their strategic goals and are able to model them, but are not supported towards achieving...

This paper shows a review research literature regarding multi-agents systems related with enterprise resource planning systems and high performance computing. A multi agent system model proposal for enterprise resource planning selection process using distributed computing architecture is presented. The enterprise resource planning selection process is divided in six steps. The proposal model i...

In this paper we show how to utilize enterprise architectures to model relations between information sources of an enterprise. With our approach the enterprise architecture models are not passive entities anymore but can be operationalized to identify dependencies between the various models and to integrate information sources. It thus is the basis for agile enterprises. We show that the elemen...

This paper summarizes the latest research in interoperability and enterprise architecture. It evaluates their features with respect to their applicability in a wide range of domains. It also recommends a seven layer Reference Model for a distributive, object oriented, domain specific, data-centric, bottom-up design. It favors a spiral model for life cycle in heterogeneous environment enterprise...

While world-wide Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) activity continues to accelerate, a substantial proportion of deals fails to yield the expected value. The inability to plan and implement post-merger integration of information technology contributes substantially to these failure rates. This paper advances the argument that a company’s pre-existing Enterprise Architecture decisively shapes the ...