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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

Publisher IDC
Published Sep 03, 2024
Length 13 Pages
SKU # IDC19146638

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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks


This IDC PeerScape helps IT and business leaders understand how to choose and implement an enterprise architecture framework, adapt the framework to the organization's needs, make decisions that affect how the framework is administered, and nurture and maintain the framework over time."Virtually every organization today needs an enterprise architecture framework to provide structure, integration, and collaboration," says Karen D. Schwartz, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "But that's only half the battle. The other half is fine-tuning that framework to fit the organization's needs while remaining flexible enough to adapt it to meet future needs."

Table of Contents

13 Pages

IDC PeerScape Figure

Executive Summary

Peer Insights

Practice 1: Adapt or Change Parts of the Framework That Don't Work Well in Your Environment

Challenge

Examples

Shell

Delta Dental

ING

State of North Carolina

Guidance

Practice 2: Augment Your EA Framework with Tools to Fill in the Gaps and Improve Usability

Challenge

Examples

State of North Carolina

Delta Dental

Shell

Guidance

Practice 3: Employ an Effective Architecture Review Board to Act as a Valuable Series of Checks and Balances

Challenge

Examples

Delta Dental

ING

Shell

State of North Carolina

Guidance

Practice 4: Periodically Review Your EA Framework for Relevance and Fit for Purpose

Challenge

Examples

State of North Carolina

Delta Dental

Guidance

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