Higher education institutions are currently facing many challenges that are making them to
start compete strategically, like other not-for-profit firm. To adequately support such new …

This thesis presents a development method that supports enterprise architects in
systematically designing an organization-specific enterprise architecture (EA) management …

The enterprise architecture (EA) and its management are topics receiving ongoing interest
from academia, practitioners, standardization bodies, and tool vendors. Over the last decade …

Measuring the business-IT alignment (BITA) of an organization determines its alignment
level, provides directions for further improvements, and consequently promotes the …

This paper presents the definition of a Reference Application Architecture for the Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) domain. The definition of the Reference Application …

The holistic management of the enterprise architecture (EA) is of vital importance for today's
organizations. For modeling the EA, different de-facto standards and scientific approaches …

System of systems architecture (SoSA) has received increasing emphasis by scholars since
Zachman ignited its flame in 1987. Given its complexity and abstractness, it is critical to …

Ensuring constant synchronicity between the IT Architecture (ITA) and the actual Information
Systems (IS) without the help of automatic tools is an intractable task, especially when taking …

Organizational models play a key role in today's enterprise modeling. They usually show up
as partial models produced in a distributed and non-synchronized fashion by people with …

Enterprise architecture existing approaches are expected to support the organization's
evolution from a current state to a future one. Although some researches address the …