Win'Design : the complete, quick and easy Design of your Information Systems. Merise - UML - Database Analysis and Design - Business Process Modeling - IS Mapping - BPM - User Interface Modeling ... Identifies New Approach for Enterprise Architecture. Egham, UK, August 11, 2009 View All Press Releases Analysts Explore 'Emergent Architecture' at Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summits 2009 in London and Orlando Enterprise architects must adopt a new style of enterprise architecture (EA) to respond to the growing variety and complexity in markets, economies, nations, networks and companies, according to Gartner, Inc.
Analysts advised companies to adopt ‘emergent architecture’, also known as middle-out EA and light EA, and set out definitions of the new approach. “The first key characteristic of the emergent approach is best summarised as ‘architect the lines, not the boxes’, which means managing the connections between different parts of the business rather than the actual parts of the business themselves,” said Bruce Robertson, research vice president at Gartner. How to maximize collective intelligence.