Enterprise Architecture – Bridge The Gap Between Business, It And Universities

Advancing technologies, emergent software development approaches, and economic conditions influencing corporate budgets are creating new challenges for the Application Services manager [4]. In one of the studies [10], Enterprise Architecture (EA) was ranked near the top of the list of issues considered important by the chief information officers. Enterprise Architecture is a distinct and developing discipline in the Information Technology (IT) profession [15]. The alignment of an organisation’s information technology to its business strategies is a recurrent theme in IS research [6]. The increasing complexity of today’s business and IT environments makes it more difficult for organisations to design an Enterprise architecture that supports the company’s business objectives and enables the IT staff to deliver applications that align with business goals.