Managing an enterprise architecture is a challenging task. While careful planning typically goes into its design, an enterprise architecture actually emerges as a result of implementing individual projects. It is this de facto architecture, not the conceptual one, that provides the capabilities for executing business strategies, and understanding this emergent architecture is of paramount impor...

During the past few years, enterprise architectures (EA) have garnered considerable attention from the community of information systems (IS) practitioners and academics. It is suggested that EA is an approach for controlling the complexity and constant changes in the business environment of an organization, enabling a real alignment between the business vision, business requirements and informa...

Lack of methodology for applying Zachman framework is a challenge that an architect who use it will face. Although there have been methodologies which were some how mapped with this framework but until now no methodology has supported one or more columns of this framework completely and in an integrated way. In this paper, we proposed an integrated process for developing Data Architecture views...

Nowadays, the Operating System (OS) isn’t only the software that runs your computer. In the typical informationdriven organization, the operating system is part of a much larger platform for applications and data that extends across the LAN, WAN and Internet. An OS cannot be an island unto itself; it must work with the rest of the enterprise. Enterprise wide applications require an Enterprise O...

This paper presents a preliminary work in the development and implementation of a collaborative digital library of historical resources for school projects by collaborating partners. The digital library aims to provide an electronic system to help educators as well as students obtain information on local history; collect, store and organize information in digital format; publish and share elect...

In recent years enterprise architecture (EA) has acquired recognition as playing a pivotal role in change processes. Purported benefits of having enterprise architecture include improved decision making, improved adaptability to changing demands or market conditions, elimination of inefficient and redundant processes, optimization of the use of organizational assets and effectively achieve curr...

With the emergence of new enterprise models, such as technologybased enterprises, and the large quantity of information generated through technological advances, the Zachman framework continues to represent a modelling tool of great utility and value to construct an enterprise architecture that can integrate and align the IT infrastructure and business goals. Nevertheless, implementing an enter...

This paper describes the construction of a generic data model for strategic planning in Public Administration (PA). This model is presented at two distinct levels corresponding to different levels of the Zachman framework. The data model developed covers one of the major generic processes which public administration agencies perform, that of strategy formulation. This model can be used to provi...