The enterprise architecture approach

IT portfolios can be standardized so that enterprise architects can avoid obsolescence by using technology architecture management. Technologies are inventoried with vendor and life cycle information (release date, end of life, and so on) that’s been obtained from existing Customer Managed Databases and cleansed. A normalization tool can streamline technology names when there are multiple sources of information. A technology life cycle database and technology inventory may also be compiled from external libraries.

After that, they conduct the following procedures:

• Pick the technologies that will be evaluated as standards, based on feedback from developers, architects, and risk managers.
• Decide whether to rate the vendor based on its ability to support applications, its business capabilities, or its vendor dependency.
• Throughout the various stages of a technology’s life cycle, its status can be updated:
  • Envisioning...