EA Metrics Offer Practical Benefits

by Tushar K. Hazra

It is clear that the EA landscape is changing. For many practitioners, EA has transformed over the past few years from a set of strategic principles (originated at the ivory towers) to become an essential set of business-driven blueprints (used at the ground level) for their enterprise solutions. EA offers a conduit for the delivery of business solutions for all phases of an enterprise-level initiative lifecycle. As this evolution continues -- and most of our enterprises transform, we experience a new version of EA: enterprise solution architecture or ESA (some may define this new outlook as EA 2.0).