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Enterprise Architecture and Cartography

From Practice to Theory; From Representation to Design

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  • Provides guidance to enterprise architecture students and practitioners how to develop and maintain enterprise models
  • Presents a catalogue of patterns, principles and methods to develop and maintain EA models and views
  • Presents methods for developing enterprise strategy, business process, and information systems architectures

Part of the book series: The Enterprise Engineering Series (TEES)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Motivation

  2. Theory

  3. How we do it

  4. Practice

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About this book

This textbook provides guidance to both students and practitioners of enterprise architecture (EA) on how to develop and maintain enterprise models. Rather than providing yet another list of EA notations and frameworks from A to Z, it focuses on methods to perform such tasks. The problem of EA maintenance, named Enterprise Cartography, is an important aspect addressed in this book because EA is a never ending challenge that increases as the organization transformations pace also increases. The long time perspective also entails the evolution of architectural frameworks and notations, something that does not occur when developing new models. Thus, a catalogue of patterns, principles and methods is presented to develop and maintain EA models and views.

After a general introduction to the book in chapter 1, chapter 2 presents basic concepts for EA modeling. Chapter 3 further details the set of EA concepts needed to present the patterns, and principles, which are subsequently introduced in chapter 4. Next, chapter 5 describes enterprise cartography concepts and principles. The remaining book then turns to techniques and methodologies. In chapter 6 an EA development method is summarized. In chapter 7 an enterprise strategy design approach is proposed, while in chapter 8 a business process design methodology is described. Chapters 9 and 10 focus on information architecture and information systems architecture design approaches, including information systems architecture planning and application portfolio management. Eventually, chapter 11 describes a method for enterprise cartography (EC) design. Last not least, several case studies on EA and EC are proposed in the last chapter.

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Sousa, André Vasconcelos

About the authors

Pedro Sousa is Associated Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, where he created the courses on Enterprise Architecture and on Business Processes Management and Engineering. He worked in different industries, both in the public and the private sector, and in several countries in Europe and South America. He is author of and responsible for the Atlas cartography tool to support architecture maintenance. Focused on providing better solutions to organizations, he has combined academic research and industrial practice to exploit innovative solutions for managing organizational transformations for the past 20 years.

André Vasconcelos is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, and researcher at INESC-ID, focusing on the modelling and evaluation of enterprise architectures. He has over 16 years of experience in advising organizations about information systems and enterprise architectures in both public and private sector projects. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Enterprise Architecture and Cartography

  • Book Subtitle: From Practice to Theory; From Representation to Design

  • Authors: Pedro Sousa, André Vasconcelos

  • Series Title: The Enterprise Engineering Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96264-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96263-0Published: 05 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96266-1Published: 06 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96264-7Published: 08 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1867-8920

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-8939

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 319

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 193 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computer Applications, Enterprise Architecture

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