Enterprise business architecture

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The enterprise business architecture component analyzes the company’s business drivers, opportunities, goals, objectives, and strategies. For instance, does the company plan to develop new product lines, infiltrate new markets, reduce operating costs, or increase customer satisfaction and loyalty? What are the most critical business problems or opportunities? The EBA provides a high-level blueprint of all critical business events and processes, along with a description of their relationships and interdependencies.

Definition: A business-vision-driven, disciplined process that decomposes the enterprise’s business strategies, the assets and processes required to execute them, and their impact on business functions. Artifacts of the EBA consist of a CRV, a CA, and current- and future-state models of business activity that articulate the extended enterprise value chain. EBA is implemented through the enterprise’s EIA, ETA, and ESA, and defines the business design for sustainable competitive advantage.