Enterprise Architecture

The 21st century campus enterprise is made up of entities, processes, locations, people, cycles and purposes. Computer information systems are made up of bits, bytes, numbers, CPUs, networking gear and the programs which manipulate them. If these systems are to provide value to the enterprise, the concrete things which make up the actually existing enterprise must be matched up to the abstract bits, bytes, etc., which comprise the campus’ information technology.

Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a comprehensive framework used to manage and align information technology (IT) with the campus’ overall strategy, goals and objectives. Enterprise architecture provides a way to view IT from many different perspectives and showing how they are all related. The approach helps guide us to making sound, targeted decisions about how to manage our information-related assets for maximum effectiveness.

New software (such as Enterprise Resource Planning/ERP) acquisition, major hardware purchases, strategic changes in technology platforms, major software change and development projects, and major organizational changes are all supported by our underlying enterprise architecture process.

Areas of Focus

  • Alignment and Governance
  • Planning and Integration
  • Data and Systems Topology
  • EA Strategy
Created Aug 12, 2005 ( revised March, 2006 )
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