Enterprise is all about single views of everything (solution and artifacts) from any context. Capability model is very important component of any enterprise which can bring any organization as of now strength at any point of time which can help industry to grow further. There can be different organizations, department, unit, location and all will have their systems using any technologies stacks and stream, at any point of time seeing in single view only enterprise can help. Development methodologies can be Scrum, Spiral, Waterfall but enterprise is unique to all of these.
How this can help, it encompass SOA, Business Model (BPM), Infrastructure model (capacity planning), information and architecture Model, security model, Executive view (context model). This can build and reusable by among other business or expose to other respond to market quickly. Align generated artifacts with solution and right manner that will add great and best values of having enterprise in any organization.
enterprise helps organization to integrate all artifacts at single place with define rules, various tools and techniques, rules should be implemented right way otherwise Enterprise as a origination will lose its values and industry will keep making distance from it like in past.
Technology and business is complementing to each other at the same time it is changing very quickly, like in-house infrastructure changing to private cloud to service base cloud, Oracle/DB data analytics changed to Hadoop and similar tools, reporting method change, Machine Learning (python), dev-ops (including CI /CD) etc. using Enterprise Concepts these changes can be easily integrated and leverage to others within a single organization.
Enterprise is flexible to use, easy to navigate, easy to maintain, align to industry, single view for everyone.
References:
- https://www.leanix.net/en/wiki/ea/enterprise-architecture-governance
- https://cio-wiki.org/wiki/Architecture_Development_Method_%28ADM%29
- https://www.dragon1.com/tutorials/how-to-create-an-enterprise-architecture-framework-diagram
