My first thought about Enterprise Architecture

Before taking the Applied Enterprise Architecture course, I wondered that what it is about and I felt confused to take it or not. After the first class, I found it is interesting and helpful to take this course.

In term of concept, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is about “The analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business, and technology perspective”, Scott Bernard. In other way to understand, this course will make learner know clearly the factors that make up an enterprise and how they connect together to get a success enterprise. In more details, I realize that EA is an arranged framework of well understood processes used to manage and align information system assets of an enterprise or organization with people and organization, processes and technology used to meet strategic business goals. Enterprise architecture is also the integration of business architecture and IT architecture.

Now I can find out the answer of a question that is why some firms fail while others achieve superior execution and are able to build on what they do well to achieve both agility and profitability. It is amazing that the answer is constructing the right enterprise architecture.

From my point of view, the term enterprise can be used and applied not only for companies, enterprise, business or corporation but also for different organs such as public or private organizations that include people, information, technology, business of the whole complicated, socio-technical system.

In overall, EA is the combination of strategy, business and technology because strategic resources are important; business gets the best result due to enterprise-wide solutions, good technology and human resources.

I hope I will effectively apply EA to improve our organizational results in the future.