Definition of Business Architecture

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WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM BUSINESS
ARCHITECTURE
What is Business Architecture A summary of
various definitions of Business Architecture?
Today, business architecture is everywhere. So
what is the definition and scope of business
architecture? As a concept, business architecture
is often misunderstood, over-used, under-used, or
wrongly-used. Even the industry experts have
differences in what is the meaning and definition
of the term
business business
architecture. architecture,
Here is a summary view of various
definitions
for
proposed
by
various
stakeholders.
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY OBJECT
MANAGEMENT GROUP
Object Management Group defines business
architecture as follows "A blueprint of the
enterprise that provides a common
understanding of the organization and is used
to
align
strategic
objectives
and
tactical
demands."
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY BUSINESS
DICTIONARY
Business dictionary focuses on the graphical
nature of
the discipline and terms business architecture
as Graphical representation of a business
model, showing the networks through which
authority, information, and work flows in a firm.
It serves as the blueprint of a firm's
business structure, and clarifies how the firm's
activities
and
policies
will
affect
its
defined
objectives.."
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia defines the term business architecture
as Business architecture is a part of an
enterprise architecture related to corporate
business, and the documents and diagrams that
describe the architectural structure of that
business. People who build business architecture
are known as business architects. Business
architecture is the bridge between the enterprise
business model and enterprise strategy on one
side, and the
business
functionality
of the enterprise on the other
side.
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY NICK MALIK
Nick Malik, an enterprise architect at Microsoft
and a well-respected
practitioner of enterprise architecture seems
frustrated with the many and often flawed
definitions of business architecture. He tries
to provide his perspectives on the definition of
business architecture as
Business Architecture -- A specialization of the
Enterprise
Architecture business function that uses science
and engineering design and implement business
functional and process
to
improvements
and
strategically-aligned
change
initiatives.
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY RALPH WHITTLE
Ralph Whittle, an enterprise architect and the
author of the book Enterprise Business
Architecture The Formal Link between Strategy
and Results takes a shot at the definition of
business architecture
The Business Architecture defines the enterprise
value streams and their relationships to all
external entities, other enterprise value
streams, and the events that trigger
instantiation. It is a definition of what the
enterprise must produce to satisfy its customers,
compete in
a market, deal employees.
with
its
suppliers,
sustain
operations, and
care
for
its
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY DEREK MIERS
The industry analyst Derek Miers at research firm
Forrester
summarizes his view of the business architecture
definition
An organized and repeatable approach to describe
and analyze an organizations business and
operating models to support a wide
variety of organizational change purposes from
cost
reduction
and
restructuring,
to
process
change
and
transformation.
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BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY MICHAEL
POULIN
Michael Poulin, an enterprise architect and a
trainer, postulates his
definition of business architecture as follows
Enterprise Business Architecture is architecture
that comprises business functionality and
business informational models, positions across
business administrative and organizational
enterprise structures, and that transforms goals
and objectives defined in a business enterprise
model and refined in the Strategic Business
it
Plans into business.
the
functional
and
informational
definition
for
a
corporate
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