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Trends in Enterprise Architecture Practice - a Survey
ISBN
978-3-642-16819-2
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-11-12
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Proper, Erik
Lankhorst, Marc M.
Schoenherr, Marten
Barjis, Joseph
Overbeek, Sietse
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
In recent years, Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become a discipline for business and IT-system management. While much research focuses on theoretical contributions related to EA, very few studies use statistical tools to analyze empirical data. This paper investigates the actual application of EA, by giving a broad overview of the usage of enterprise architecture in Swedish, German, Austrian and Swiss companies. 162 EA professionals answered a survey originally focusing on the relation between IT/business alignment (ITBA) and EA. The dataset provides answers to questions such as: For how many years have companies been using EA models, tools, processes and roles? How is ITBA in relation to EA perceived at companies? In particular, the survey has investigated quality attributes of EA, related to IT-systems, business and IT governance. One important result is some interesting correlations between how these qualities are prioritized. For example, a high concern for interoperability correlates with a high concern for maintainability.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
No
Book title
Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Berlin Heidelberg
Volume
70
Start page
16
End page
29
Pages
14
Event Title
5th International Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR 2010)
Event Location
Delft, The Netherlands
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
213731