Enterprise Architecture Management

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The five most common enterprise architecture management mistakes.

Don’t lose sight of the big picture!

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Don’t lose sight of the big picture!

ARIS Solution for Enterprise Architecture Management combines cuttingedge BPM technologies with global enterprise architecture standards.

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Expert Paper

Don’t lose sight of the big picture!

The five most common enterprise architecture management mistakes.

Complex systems have always required good building plans, and avoiding typical mistakes is vital. The key to success lies in turning your organization’s business processes into the drivers behind your IT resources.

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you can avoid the most common mistakes when setting up your enterprise architecture. you can combine business process management and enterprise architecture management for maximum synergy.

IT managers have a daunting task. Corporate growth leads to ever more complex and extensive IT environments, while the number of redundant systems rises. At the same time, shrinking system lifecycles necessitate more flexible IT architecture management. In addition, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify business-critical systems, and cost-cutting targets prove elusive. The only viable strategy is to align IT structures with business objectives and processes, thereby enabling sustained improvements and – thanks to standardization – a significant reduction in the cost of developing, maintaining, and upgrading IT systems. The business processes deployed in modern organizations are supported by sophisticated enterprise-wide information systems. Enterprise architectures (EA for short) are important tools for standardizing, documenting, analyzing, and managing the complex information this involves. Achieving the desired effects with an enterprise architecture requires careful selection of suitable...