Enterprise Architecture Flashcards
Enterprise Architecture
What does Enterprise Architecture try to answer?
How does architecture fit into the corporate structure
Enterprise Architecture is super specific, right?
Nope. It’s broad.
Enterprise Architectures attempt to do what things?
Bring order to chaos.
Is legacy bad
Not necessarily
What is a legacy system
Something that’s quite old.
What is the average life of a business strategy?
Less than 12 months
What is the average life of an IT infastructure?
5-7 years
Name a type of ‘standard’
plug and play
Why bother about standards?
They allow you to work in an already established framework
What are the benefits of an EA
Cost effective
Easier to implement new business solutions
More secure and robust
An environment with standards = good for data
A consistent dataset is what?
A powerful dataset.
Typical IT environments are what?
Messy
Point-solution heavy
Difficult to maintain
Expensive and unruly
IT Investment is often
Reactive
Focused on point solutions
Poorly informed
Not robust
EA is a blueprint that defines what things?
Idealised configuration of organisations IT and systems and their connections
EA needs to be what?
Reliable, flexible, affordable
What is the corporate view
Group wide rather than division video of IT