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Business, Information & Solution Architecture
A finely tuned "EA cardiovascular system" helps people collaborate and optimize information flows to deliver the information every employee needs for success. Learn how to build reuse into your solutions architecture, facilitate cross-functional, interdepartmental decisions, and support impact analysis across business and technology solutions.

Enterprise Solution Architecture: An Overview

This overview defines enterprise solution architecture and introduces the base concepts: solution architecture, solution patterns and solution portfolios. These concepts are further detailed in three other documents in this series.

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Gartner analyst Betsy Burton outlines the top three concerns of enterprise architects.
WEBINAR
  • Best Practices and Big Mistakes in Enterprise Architecture
  • It is critical to make sure your EA effort is demonstrating value to key stakeholders. The risk to your EA efforts includes not just budget reduction, but outright EA program elimination, which in turn will have a profound impact on your organization's ability to make effective business decisions.
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  • The Changing Face of Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise architecture (EA) is a constantly evolving discipline that is intended to broadly influence and support investment decisions and organizational change.

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