Summary
The role of enterprise architects is to take on these problems head-on by providing a roadmap to manage and reduce complexity, which contributes directly to reducing costs. Enterprise architects ensure that IT is aligned with business goals and standards.
Within an EA, the primary objective is to ensure a reduced cost of business operation, an agile organization and workflow, shared business capabilities and access across the organization, and more. In the light of these goals, enterprise architects fit best in multiple use cases such as mergers, integrations, risk assessment, management, and so on. The EA also includes governing principles that discuss how business strategy can be realized through IT implementation.
In the absence of stakeholder participation, EA programs often end up being a massive failure. EA often focuses only on technology, which has a much narrower scope than technical architecture. Business, information, and solutions architectures are all included...
