Conclusion

As your organization’s systems become more interconnected, enterprise architecture promotes consistency across them by allowing development teams to work with a standard set of clear, proven approaches, and even product lines, for their application architectures. The common mechanisms and compatible semantics across systems enable reuse, as well as system integration. By looking beyond the current technology needs and laying the groundwork for future initiatives, these teams can go beyond single applications and assess architectural impacts on the entire enterprise.

The task of formulating, verifying, and then supporting architectural frameworks falls in the enterprise architects’ bucket. Data, security, networking, and hardware infrastructure are built out by your enterprise administrators. Also, your application project teams will be in charge of implementing your enterprise architecture. This is an effort that your enterprise architects should actively...