Enterprise Architecture and Cartography
From Practice to Theory; From Representation to Design
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The role of enterprise architecture (EA) is to assist enterprises in achieving a successful strategy execution by conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation. EA projects enable enterp...
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We refer to enterprise cartography (EC) as the process of representing an enterprise as it is observed directly from reality. It differentiates from enterprise architecture (EA) because it focuses on producing...
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This chapter presents TOGAF Architecture Development Method that supports organizations in defining, develo**, and managing the enterprise architecture.
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This chapter describes Enterprise Cartography (EC) primitives. Thus, after an introduction to EC concepts, EC definitions are proposed (including enterprise model, enterprise meta-model, architectural sentence...
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This chapter presents two approaches for designing the information architecture. Thus, after introducing the topic and its similarities and differences, the top-down and the bottom-up information architecture ...
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The founding concepts that support this book are introduced in this chapter. Firstly, the concepts of system and enterprise are presented, including system composition, environment, structure, and production. ...
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This chapter introduces business process design approaches. After the introduction, process identification challenges are presented, along with activity identification, considering different concerns. Then, we...
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This chapter presents information systems architecture (ISA) design techniques. Thus, information planning techniques are described including information systems architecture (ISA) analysis, ISA design, and IS...
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This chapter presents three case studies where enterprise architecture (EA) approaches and design principles are applied. The case studies described are based on real-world projects and challenges. However, so...
Book
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This chapter introduces the major motivations behind this book. Enterprise Architecture (EA) expected results and drivers are firstly introduced, along with EA challenges. Then, a separation between enterprise...
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This chapter introduces Enterprise Architecture (EA) foundations. After introducing the major motivations that drive the EA, the layers used to describe the EA are presented. The remaining of the chapter is or...
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This chapter describes a methodology for develo** enterprise cartography in enterprises. The purpose is to support enterprises when producing AS-IS and TO-BE architectural views with minimal human effort.
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This chapter describes Enterprise Architecture solutions to common problems. Principles are organized by architecture domain and quality attributes addressed. Firstly, sixteen cross-domain principles are descr...
Chapter and Conference Paper
This paper addresses how to design and implement business process compliance through observing the business process instances and controlling the business process models, considering environments that are only...
Chapter and Conference Paper
A business process model always has a dominant perspective in the detriment of others, motivating the need of different stakeholders to look for different models of the same process. In fact, it is common to s...
Chapter and Conference Paper
Lack of traceability and control is a problem nowadays identified by industries. There are many situations that prove the existence of this problem: lack of trust between actors, lack of information about defe...