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What Does Enterprise Architecture (EA) Mean?

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a comprehensive framework that explores all areas of an organization, defines how technology supports business goals, and includes components like mission, stakeholders, processes, applications, infrastructure, and data. EA facilitates process improvement by discovering processes that need change, managing change through documentation, developing enterprise-wide procedures, and encouraging communication for better decision making.

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What Does Enterprise Architecture (EA) Mean?

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a comprehensive framework that explores all areas of an organization, defines how technology supports business goals, and includes components like mission, stakeholders, processes, applications, infrastructure, and data. EA facilitates process improvement by discovering processes that need change, managing change through documentation, developing enterprise-wide procedures, and encouraging communication for better decision making.

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What does Enterprise Architecture (EA) mean?

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a comprehensive operational framework that explores all of an


organizations functional areas while defining how technology benefits and serves the
organization's overall mission. The technological aspect of EA defines the hardware, operating
systems, programming and networking solutions a business employs and how those may be used
to achieve its current and future objectives.

EA includes the following components: mission, stakeholders and customers, processes,


applications and infrastructure, networks, and data.

EA facilitates improvement of processes in the following ways:

Discovering business processes that require change


Efficiently and continuously managing change via clearly defined documentation
Developing and implementing enterprise-wide procedures
Encouraging effective enterprise-wide communication, which, in theory leads to better
decisions.

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