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Pattern-oriented Enterprise Architecture Management

Authors:
Tobias Brunner
Alfred Zimmermann

Keywords: Enterprise Architecture Management; Enterprise-Services-Architecture-Reference-Cube; ESARC; Pattern-oriented Architecture Development Method; Core-Pattern-Catalog; Architecture Framework.

Abstract:
Current Enterprise Architecture Frameworks are limited in their ability of providing reference architectures and architecture development methods to assist for developing comprehensive, guided and fully-fledged enterprise architectures. The outcome is that in the majority of cases present architecture modeling approaches are rarely validated, have sparse reference and meta-models as well as general and limited statements for building and designing a comprehensive enterprise architecture. Furthermore these frameworks do not include recent approaches for developing enterprise architectures, like cloud computing, service-orientation and broad security reference architectures. This is a real problem of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and their process models for designing and developing wide-ranging enterprise architectures. The Enterprise Services Architecture Reference Cube (ESARC) defines a integral framework for enterprise architecture artifacts with their main relationships. Our new idea and contribution is to extend existing architecture frameworks and their development methods with a new pattern-oriented Architecture Development Method approach. Based on our research on the ESARC architecture framework we have leveraged a new pattern-oriented Architecture Development Method and have extracted a coherent set of enterprise architecture patterns.

Pages: 51 to 56

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3557

ISBN: 978-1-61208-221-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012