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Enterprise
Architecture is the art of incorporating
executive requirements, resource availability,
budget constraints, risks, and business
initiatives into a single cohesive plan and
architecture. Enterprise Architecture
provides the foundation for which all future
decisions are made against and a benchmark for
success. TekConscious maintains the
highest quality, results oriented professionals
that understand how to take the concept of
enterprise architecture from theory to reality
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Business
vision drives the business strategy. To
monitor progress on the extent to which the
business vision is achieved, a performance
measurement framework is created that defines
the goals that are to be achieved by business
operation and the measurements that indicate
movement towards those goals.
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Goal
achievement
is realized by the business processes. The
business processes will define the work to be
done on a day-to day basis. The performance
measurements defined in the performance
measurement framework monitors progress.
Business
processes are defined in two categories. The
first is called a value chain, within which
business processes are defined that directly
add value to the customer by it execution. The
second category is that of supporting
processes that defines processes that exist in
order for the value chain processes to
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In
order to automate and support key business
processes, software and hardware systems are
often implemented. These systems contain the
information and mechanisms necessary for
successful business process execution.
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The
three layers will naturally be misaligned to
some extent. In a dynamic organization there
will always be strategy components that are
not implemented until well after formulation.
The effect will be that processes may not
exist for some of the strategy components. In
the same way as process grows, it is possible
that the systems to support it may not be
present yet. In the bigger scheme of things it
follows that the process lags behind strategy
and systems lag behind process.
Over
time as strategic initiatives change,
processes evolve and systems adapt, this
misalignment may cause the gaps between the
layers to shrink and grow. One
way to manage these gaps is the establishment
of an enterprise architecture framework that
links these layers together with architecture
models.
This
is done by modeling the components of enterprise
architecture and creating the
relationships between them
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