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Monday, January 18, 2016

Quick introduction to Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture is defined in several ways and its use changes from one organization to another. However, the meaning behind any of these definitions is the same, to help an organization with their architectural layer, the four most important being  Business, Data, Technology, and application.

As mentioned in the course, EA represents the different layers that includes improving the organizations:
  1. goals and objectives
  2. organizational structure and processes
  3. data and technology infrastructure
  4. system and applications
All  of these activities are used to streamline the business processes within an organization, improving technology infrastructure in order to improve the overall efficiency of the system.

Nowadays, besides the four layers mentioned above, the fifth layer (Security Architectural layer) is becoming popular as well. With the increase in online presence, and companies everyday dumping their data in cloud, it is but obvious that serious focus needs to shift towards security layer within an organization as well. It is even more important to make sure that the security layer is well thought through and put into place, so as to protect the company and its data from any data breaches in the future.

The five architectural layers mentioned above are all interdependent with each other, as you will find in my following posts.


Interconnected architectural layers in the form of a stack
 

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