Overview
- Introduces the ArchiMate® modelling language for enterprise architecture, an Open Group standard
- Describes quantitative analysis methods to assess the impact of architectural changes
- Based on industry standards like IEEE 1471, Zachman, UML, and TOGAF
- Designed by leading researchers and tested in large-scale industry projects
- Extensive industry support
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Enterprise Engineering Series (TEES)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language.
Lankhorst and his co-authors present such an enterprise modelling language that captures the complexity of architectural domains and their relations and allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. They provide architects with concrete instruments that improve their architectural practice. As this is not enough, they additionally present techniques and heuristics for communicating with all relevant stakeholders about these architectures. Since an architecture model is useful not only for providing insight into the current or future situation but can also be used to evaluate the transition from ‘as-is’ to ‘to-be’, the authors also describe analysis methods for assessing both the qualitative impact of changes to an architecture and the quantitative aspects of architectures, such as performance and cost issues.
The modelling language presented has been proven in practice in many real-life case studies and has been adopted by The Open Group as an international standard. So this book is an ideal companion for enterprise IT or business architects in industry as well as for computer or management science students studying the field of enterprise architecture.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marc Lankhorst is a senior member of scientific staff at Novay (www.novay.nl) where he leads its Service Architectures expertise group. He has managed the ArchiMate project, a co-operation between several partners from industry and academia, concerned with modelling, visualisation and analysis of enterprise architectures, of which this book is a result. Furthermore, he teaches several courses on architecture at universities and other institutes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enterprise Architecture at Work
Book Subtitle: Modelling, Communication and Analysis
Authors: Marc Lankhorst
Series Title: The Enterprise Engineering Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01310-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-01310-2Published: 15 July 2009
Series ISSN: 1867-8920
Series E-ISSN: 1867-8939
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 352
Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Originally published as a monograph
Topics: IT in Business, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing, Models and Principles, Software Engineering