In all those stories John A. Zachman is telling us, we can recognize frequently an opposition, implicit or explicit, between two ways of perceiving the future: the long and the short term. This difference in the duration of looking forward is fundamental: “Life’s trade-off in its most simplistic form is between the short term (“immediate gratification”) and the long term (what’s ‘good’ for us)“...

The Zachman Framework is one of the oldest Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. It is a unique approach to provide a logical understanding of ever increasing size and complexities of information systems. This paper aims to introduce the Zachman framework in general. Also this paper aims to provide details about the Owner’s perspective of the Zachman Framework. This paper also address the securit...

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...

While a great deal is known about how Information and Communication Technologies are used in developing and underserved communities, there are still gaps as to how ICTs may enable development outcomes to be achieved. It appears that the majority of businesses in developing regions are micro-enterprises which employ between 1-5 people and face challenges of limited resources. This research inves...

Enterprises choose Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution, in order to overcome dynamic business challenges and in order to coordinate various enterprise elements. In this article, a solution is suggested for the Enterprise Architecture based on a conceptual model of Enterprise Ontology (EO). Enterprise Ontology provides a common structure for data collection. First, conceptual model of Enterpri...

When the requirements of stakeholders are identified for the system development, the requirements collected should be formalized for their analysis and use. Zachman Framework is an enterprise architecture framework that provides a formal and highly structured way of viewing and defining an enterprise; it can provide a systematic way to formalize the requirements. This paper proposes an OWL onto...

The Zachman framework is considered to be the most referenced framework for the purpose of enterprise architecture. It is commonplace to compare other frameworks with this basic one in order to show correctness and usability of those frameworks. However, this is more than a fashion, the Zachman framework is actually the best one. Despite of its popularity, the Zachman framework could be a chall...

Twenty years ago, Zachman proposed a framework – the Information Systems Architecture – that was certainly one of the main contributions to the Enterprise Architecture research area. More recently, the concept of service was proposed and largely adopted, thus introducing another but fundamental perspective about how organizations not only operate internally but also relate with stakeholders. In...