PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 1549566
PUBLISHER: IDC | PRODUCT CODE: 1549566
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
This IDC PeerScape helps IT and business leaders understand how to choose and implement an enterprise architecture framework, adapt the framework to the organization's needs, make decisions that affect how the framework is administered, and nurture and maintain the framework over time."Virtually every organization today needs an enterprise architecture framework to provide structure, integration, and collaboration," says Karen D. Schwartz, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP). "But that's only half the battle. The other half is fine-tuning that framework to fit the organization's needs while remaining flexible enough to adapt it to meet future needs."
IDC PeerScape Figure
Executive Summary
Peer Insights
- Practice 1: Adapt or Change Parts of the Framework That Don't Work Well in Your Environment
- Challenge
- Examples
- Shell
- Delta Dental
- ING
- State of North Carolina
- Guidance
- Practice 2: Augment Your EA Framework with Tools to Fill in the Gaps and Improve Usability
- Challenge
- Examples
- State of North Carolina
- Delta Dental
- Shell
- Guidance
- Practice 3: Employ an Effective Architecture Review Board to Act as a Valuable Series of Checks and Balances
- Challenge
- Examples
- Delta Dental
- ING
- Shell
- State of North Carolina
- Guidance
- Practice 4: Periodically Review Your EA Framework for Relevance and Fit for Purpose
- Challenge
- Examples
- State of North Carolina
- Delta Dental
- Guidance
