Designing Enterprise Architecture Frameworks: Integrating Business Processes with IT Infrastructure

355 Pages·2014·6.06 MB·English

by  Liviu Gabriel Cretu

DESIGNING ENTERPRISE
ARCHITECTURE
FRAMEWORKS
Integrating Business Processes
with IT Infrastructure
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DESIGNING ENTERPRISE
ARCHITECTURE
FRAMEWORKS
Integrating Business Processes
with IT Infrastructure
Edited by
Liviu Gabriel Cretu, PhD
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Liviu Gabriel Cretu, PhD
Dr. Liviu Gabriel Cretu is a research director at the Centre for Research
and Education in Management Information Systems, Alexandru Ioan
Cuza University, Iaş i, Romania; a lecturer at the same university; and a
consultant in applications architecture at the European Commission, D.G.
Informatics, Unit B-Information Systems and Interoperability Solutions.
He is a researcher, developer, and author, having published numerous
peer-reviewed articles in the fields of enterprise systems, semantic web
and enterprise architectures, model-driven engineering, service-oriented
architecture, and business process management. He received his PhD in
business information systems from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University,
Iaş i, Romania.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgment and How to Cite ..................................................ix
List of Contributors .........................................................................xi
Introduction .....................................................................................xv
Part I: Setting the Stage
1. Comprehensive Measurement Framework for Enterprise
Architectures ..............................................................................................1
Mahesh R. Dube and Shantanu K. Dixit
2. Evaluation of ARIS and Zachman Frameworks as Enterprise
Architectures .............................................................................................33
Melita Kozina
3. An Integrated Enterprise Architecture Framework for
Business-IT Alignment .............................................................................63
Novica Zarvić and Roel Wieringa
4. Enterprise Architecture: New Business Value Perspectives ...........77
M. de Vries and A. C. J. van Rensburg
Part II: Open Issues and Novel Ideas
5. Pattern-Oriented Approach for Enterprise Architecture:
TOGAF Framework .................................................................................99
Mohamed Taleb and Omar Cherkaoui
6. A New Content Framework and Metamodel for Enterprise
Architecture and IS Strategic Planning ...............................................115
Mouhsine Lakhdissi and Bouchaib Bounabat
7. Agent-Oriented Enterprise Architecture: New Approach for
Enterprise Architecture......................................................................... 135
Babak Darvish Rouhani and Fatemeh Nikpay
8. ADaPPT: Enterprise Architecture Thinking for Information
Systems Development ............................................................................ 145
Hanifa Shah and Paul Golder
viii Contents
9. A New Method of Performance Evaluation for Enterprise
Architecture Using Stereotypes .............................................................159
Samaneh Khamseh, Fares Sayyadi, and Mohammad Hosein Yektaie
10. Six Sigma Driven Enterprise Model Transformation ........................181
Raymond Vella, Sekhar Chattopadhyay, and John P.T. Mo
Part III: Implementations
11. Evaluating and Refi ning the ‘Enterprise Architecture as Strategy’
Approach and Artifacts ..........................................................................205
M. de Vries and A. C. J. van Rensburg
12. An Enterprise Architecture Methodology for Business-IT Alignment:
Adopter and Developer Perspectives ....................................................229
Zulkhairi Md. Dahalin, Rafi dah Abd Razak, Huda Ibrahim,
Nor Iadah Yusop, and M. Khairudin Kasiran
13. Enterprise Architecture Ontology for Supply Chain Maintenance
and Restoration of the Sikorsky’s UH-60 Helicopter ..........................255
James A. Rodger and Pankaj Pankaj
14. An Enterprise Architecture Framework for Mobile Commerce ........277
Khawar Hameed, Hanifa Shah, Kamran Ahsan, and Weijun Yang
15. EA-MDA Model to Resolve IS Characteristic Problems in Educational
Institutions ...............................................................................................291
Mardiana and Keijiro Araki
Author Notes ...........................................................................................325
Index ........................................................................................................327
ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
HOW TO CITE
The chapters in this book were previously published in various places and
in various formats. By bringing them together here in one place, we offer
the reader a comprehensive perspective on recent investigations into the
design and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks. Each
chapter is added to and enriched by being placed within the context of the
larger investigative landscape. Specifically:
• Chapter 1 provides one of the few, well-documented overviews of the
main enterprise architecture frameworks. The authors have also made
a distinct contribution to the field by proposing a comparison method
based on higher order goals as well as non-functional requirements. It
is a very good starting point in order to understand the EA landscape.
• Chapter 2 makes a very well-documented and in-depth comparison be-
tween two highly popular EA frameworks: ARIS and Zachman. The
level of detail as well as the accuracy of the analysis are rather high,
thus transforming the paper into a “must-read” for the beginner to better
understand the domain of enterprise architectures.
• Chapter 3 proposes an interesting approach to compare well-known
enterprise architecture frameworks in order to build an integrated EA
model needed to represent interorganizational concerns. The main goal
is to identify the common elements needed to facilitate the communica-
tion between companies using different frameworks to represent their
enterprise architecture.
• Why is enterprise architecture important for business and which precise
business areas might EA help improve? The answer to this question is
not only given but also very well documented in Chapter 4.
• Chapter 5 introduces a novel idea of embedding patterns in enterprise
architecture frameworks, in order to create new architectures based on
pre-defined business and IT building blocks. The authors identify ten
architecture design patterns, one for each of the TOGAF’s main activi-
ties.
• Chapter 6 details a new content framework and metamodel for enter-
prise architecture with the aim to reduce the number of architecture lay-
ers and to organize the content of each architecture layer. The main
contribution of this paper is the artifacts needed to describe EAs. The
authors also compare their approach with well-known EAFs.