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Enterprise Architecture. Gartner on EAM. IT Strategies from Oracle. IT Strategies from Oracle is an authorized library of guidelines and reference architectures that will help you better plan, execute, and manage your enterprise architecture and IT initiatives. The IT Strategies from Oracle library offers two types of best practice documents: practitioner guides containing pragmatic advice and approaches, and reference architectures containing the proven technology patterns to jump-start your initiative.

Learn more: The IT Strategies from Oracle library can help you establish a reliable set of principles and standards to guide your use of Oracle technology. We will expand this library over time across all of Oracle's technologies. Please send us your feedback. Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments. Business Models. Zachman International® - The Official Home of The Zachman Framework™ Home - Enterprise Integration Patterns. TOGAF. How to manage requirements within the Enterprise Architecture using the TOGAF® and SABSA® frameworks.

By Pascal de Koning, KPN You want to put your company’s business strategy into action. What’s the best way to accomplish this? This can be done in a structured manner by using an Enterprise Architecture Framework like TOGAF®. TOGAF® offers an overview of business and IT related architectures, as well as a process model to deliver these, called the Architecture Development Method (ADM-figure 1). As the figure shows, Requirements Management plays a central role in the architecture work in the TOGAF® methodology. Unfortunately, TOGAF® does not offer guidance on Requirements Management.

Business Attribute Profiling is a requirements engineering technique that translates business goals and drivers into requirements (see figure 2). Executive communication in non-ICT termsGrouping and structuring of requirements, keeping oversightTraceability mapping between business drivers, requirements and capabilities The BAP process decomposes the business goal into its core elements. Like this: OBASHI. The OBASHI methodology provides a framework and method for capturing, illustrating and modeling the relationships, dependencies and dataflows between business and Information technology (IT) assets and resources in a business context.

A Business and IT (B&IT) diagram built using the OBASHI Framework. It is a formal and structured way of communicating the logical and physical relationships and dependencies between IT assets and resources (Ownership, Business Processes, Applications, Systems, Hardware, and Infrastructure) to define the business services of a modern enterprise. The name OBASHI is a licensed trademark of OBASHI Ltd. Core Principle[edit] OBASHI is based around a core principle: that IT exists for one reason, namely, to manage the flow of data between business assets. Business resources (which include people) and IT assets are either providers of data, consumers of data or provide the conduit through which the data can flow. The Origins of OBASHI[edit] Characteristics[edit] EA - Enterprise Architecture.