Enterprise Architecture: It's Not Just For IT Anymore

by Jeroen van Tyn, Mike Rosen

Business-IT alignment is an oft-stated goal of enterprise architecture (EA), but EA often flounders from exactly the misalignment it assumes to address. Business architecture must ultimately be the source of requirements for IT architecture. Yet, business owners are not accountable for how their applications affect the overall enterprise. This Executive Report by Jeroen van Tyn and Mike Rosen describes a process for EA to use the interaction between applications -- that is, the business processes that span applications -- for requirements and sponsorship of the enterprise architecture.