Enterprise Architecture – goals and scope of analysis and modeling

Enterprise Architecture – goals and scope of analyzes and modelingPurpose and benefitsThe primary goal of analyzing and modeling the entire company, at a predetermined level of detail (or rather the level of generality), is to determine the context for specific local, domain-specific projects. The whole model contains information about the document flow and the IT systems supporting it. The key benefit of having a documented Enterprise Architecture is an even several-fold reduction in the costs of ongoing management and development of the IT system, The key benefit of having a documented Enterprise Architecture is even a several-fold reduction in the costs of current company management and the costs of IT system development. Given models we have:possibility to make organizational decisions immediately and without risk: documented information about mechanism of the operation of each business service (business processes), means the ability to perform immediate analysis the impact of each such decision on the rest of the companythe ability to immediately make decisions about introducing necessary changes to the IT system, documented information about the operation mechanism and architecture of the IT system, allows for immediate implementation of the specification​“to-be” of this system, and send it to suppliers as a requirement (no need to do any pre-implementation analyses),possibility of implementing business continuity management,possibility of implementing a controlling and activity-based cost management system (ABC method of cost management). See also Target operating model (TOM).

Source: Enterprise Architecture – goals and scope of analyzes and modeling – Jarosław Żeliński IT-Consulting