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The book attempts to answer a few of the common questions related to Enterprise Architecture (EA) and SOA. What are the issues? What is EA? Why should an organization consider EA? How to build the Enterprise Architecture and document it. What are the roadblocks, politics, governance, process and design method? How to measure the value deliverd by EA and its maturity and and how to select an Enterprise Architect? An innovative EA Framework, the associated metamodel and generic Enterprise Reference Maps (templates) for the business process, applications and infrastructure layers are proposed. The framework looks like a content page showing the chapters of a book or, in this case, the components of the Enterprise Architecture without actually describing them but showing how they fit into the whole. The book then identifies and summarises Best Practices in the Enterprise Architecture and SOA development, EA patterns, the integration to the mundane solution architecture, delivery checklistsÉ The book is intended to be a document summarising why and how to build an Enterprise Architecture.

Book reviews:
IASA 3rd edition: http://www.iasahome.org/web/home/blogs/-/blogs/review---an-enterprise-architecture-framework-3rd-edition
IASA 2nd edition: http://www.iasahome.org/web/home/blogs/-/blogs/review---an-enterprise-architecture-development-framework

You may buy a PDF format of the book for US$25 compared to the full price of US$50, for a limited period of time. See Training & Buy section. The book would be emailed to you.

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The Problem: today's unresponding “legacy” Enterprise in a world of increasingly increasing complexity, amount of information, rate of change and competition. 

The Solution: the Enterprise Architecture (EA) offering streamlining, alignment, blueprinting, strategic planning, and agility through SOA, the target state of the Enterprise.

    The book describes: 
  • drivers, benefits and Business Case for an EA evaluating financial Payback and NPV
  • the Return on Enterprise Architecture (RoEA) 

        RoEA =       Revenuearch/Costsarch 
                        Revenuenoarch/Costsnoarch 

  • a Single Page Enterprise Architecture, a synoptic view of the Enterprise operation
  • Enterprise reference maps, covering business and technology architecture templates
  • alignment of your on-going solutions architecture projects to the Enterprise Architecture
  • a navigable EA framework and its metamodel describing the Value Chains, Business & Operating Models, Functions and Flows resourced by Organization and Technology layers
  • classification of and mapping to other EA frameworks: Zachman, TOGAF, DoDAF…
  • a unifying view of EA, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Value Chains, Business Models, Processes (BPM) and IT Architecture, patching the divide between the Business and IT
  • a best practices process for building the EA and SOA,, an EA development exercise, and how to use the framework for ITIL, M&A, Outsourcing, Start-ups…
  • EA patterns, inhibitors, maturity models, politics & sell
  • a Strategy specification process and alignment to business activities, organization and technology. 
“There are a few books that take a broad perspective, but most focus on creating an IT architecture. An Enterprise Architecture Development Framework, by Adrian Grigoriu, is a pleasant exception. Grigoriu takes a very comprehensive view of things and works to show how everything can be integrated within a broadly conceived view of things”. 
Paul Harmon, the Executive Editor of Business Process Trends (www.bptrends.com).


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