Executive Update

Practical Enterprise Architecture: The Civil Engineering of IT

Posted February 29, 2004 | Technology |

A practical enterprise architecture, or PEA, works from the inside out (i.e., starting with the common IT resources to support the applications systems) rather than from the outside in (i.e., designing the applications systems toward the common IT resources).

About The Author
John Chi-Zong Wu
John Chi-Zong Wu currently serves as the Enterprise Architecture Coordinator for the Employee Standards Administration (ESA) in the US Department of Labor. He is the author of Light Enterprise Architecture (LEA -- www.e-cio.org) and has conducted many EA products experiments in the LEA laboratory. He is a regular contributor to the popular blog "ITtoolbox" (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/cio/lea). Since 1998, Mr. Wu has actively participated in and… Read More
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