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Architecting the Enterprise: Using a Standards Approach
Author(s) -
Martin Richard A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2010.tb01159.x
Subject(s) - enterprise architecture , enterprise integration , enterprise systems engineering , enterprise architecture management , architecture , computer science , engineering management , enterprise information system , automation , systems engineering , knowledge management , enterprise software , process management , engineering , mechanical engineering , art , visual arts
Enterprise architecture has taken on many meanings as practitioners and scholars attempt to understand and apply the principles of design and construction necessary for today's highly complicated enterprise scale systems. This tutorial presents an overview of enterprise architecture concerns and then uses International Standards as a means to frame the disparate approaches relative to those concerns, offers some insight into the relationships among approaches that result from applying the standards, and identifies opportunities for an innovative architecting discipline to facilitate sustainable enterprise operation. International communities for Information technology (ISO JTC1) and Automation systems and integration (ISO TC184) have produced International Standards with requirements related to enterprise architecture. These methodology independent International Standards provide a means to assess methodological approaches and offer guidance for the creation and articulation of enterprise architecture. INCOSE, as a liaison partner, has been instrumental in assuring that systems engineering remains an essential contributor to these efforts.