Architecture Principles The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture /

• Main Authors: Greefhorst, Danny (Author), Proper, Erik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: The Enterprise Engineering Series ; 4
• Subjects: Business.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Application software.; Business and Management.; IT in Business.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Models and Principles.; Software Engineering.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.

Enterprises, from small to large, evolve continuously. As a result, their structures are transformed and extended continuously. Without some means of control, such changes are bound to lead to an overly complex, uncoordinated and heterogeneous environment that is hard to manage and hard to adapt to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The role of enterprise architecture
• A conceptual framework for principles
• Architecture principle specifications
• A practical approach
• Case studies
• Architecture principles in context
• Summary, conclusions and future work
• Principles catalogue
• Architecture principles in TOGAF.