A Modeling Framework for Enterprise Architecture

This video shows a presentation given by Terry Merriman at the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) conference in New York City in October, 2009. It discusses the general concepts of modeling enterprise architecture and then provides a live walk-through of an architectural reference model. The model was created using the (EA)2 Enterprise Architecture Modeling Framework, an add-in for Enterprise Architect supplied by OAD Consulting, Inc.

The presentation shows how use Enterprise Architect and (EA)2 to model...

• the horizontal slices of the enterprise architecture, namely the Business, Application, Data, and Infrastructure architectural views,
• the verical slices of the enterprise architecture, i.e. the business processes and all of the architectural assets needed for their realizations
• roadmaps that let you visualize the state of your architecture at given points in time

Terry Merriman is CEO & Chief Architect for OAD Consulting, a Sparx Systems' VAR. More information can be found at www.EA2.us.

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