Section 2: Building the Enterprise Architecture Repository

This section provides practical examples of the different types of artifacts that an enterprise architect can develop to build an architecture repository while being involved in different types of activities with different business units.

Building an enterprise architecture repository involves building a library of reference models that architects can use to build a library of artifacts (mainly diagrams). Each artifact can tell a piece of information about your enterprise, and by combining multiple interconnected artifacts, you are able to see the bigger picture. Being able to easily navigate between artifacts in different architecture layers will help you understand and trace how each element is connected and to what. Additionally, having a library of nested artifacts can show or hide information as needed at different levels of detail, by drilling up or down between diagrams.

This section comprises the following chapters...