Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

The enterprise architecture problem

Effective architecture is a key enabler for an enterprise. Inappropriate architecture can severely compromise enterprise goals. Yet odds are that your enterprise architecture is not meeting your enterprise goals as well as you would like.

Building and evolving effective architectures at the enterprise level is a difficult proposition. It typically involves a witch's brew of diverse organizations, varied business and technology stakeholders whose goals and strategies are not clear or well aligned, and long-lived heterogeneous systems and applications of different granularity running on a mix of technical platforms.

There are often ingrained problems with ownership and duplication of processing and data, new technologies either shoe-horned into an inadequate infrastructure or entirely overlooked, poorly understood systems and dependencies, and mysterious business processes.

Systemic "blind spots" strike with depressing regularity, often directly at the gaps between business and technology, architectures and implementations, architecture and operations, logical architectures and platform realizations, and ivory-tower architecture principles versus reality.