Enterprise Architecture

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What Does Enterprise Architecture Mean?

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a comprehensive operational framework that explores all of an organizations functional areas while defining how technology benefits and serves the organization’s overall mission. The technological aspect of EA defines the hardware, operating systems, programming and networking solutions a business employs and how those may be used to achieve its current and future objectives.

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Techopedia Explains Enterprise Architecture

EA includes the following components: mission, stakeholders and customers, processes, applications and infrastructure, networks, and data.

EA facilitates improvement of processes in the following ways:

  • Discovering business processes that require change
  • Efficiently and continuously managing change via clearly defined documentation
  • Developing and implementing enterprise-wide procedures
  • Encouraging effective enterprise-wide communication, which, in theory leads to better decisions.
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.