Enterprise architecture frameworks organize, manage, and interrelate the wide variety of models used to structure and operate an enterprise. An enterprise architecture framework is a means to understanding an enterprise or class of enterprises by organizing and presenting artifacts that conceptualize and describe the enterprise. PUBLICATIONS Enterprise is a collective activity in a particular domain, with actors sharing a common purpose such as a business, a collection of businesses with a common market, a government agency, et cetera. Organization, a common synonym for enterprise, is defined here as the way things are organized. Architecture emphasizes the use oriented rather than the construction oriented aspects of the design of those enterprises. A framework is a structured container for holding and interconnecting things. For example, a framework for electronic components would both hold the circuit boards and provide for wiring between those boards. Models are formal artifacts developed and used by people or machines. In framework contexts, artifacts are sometimes called components to indicate that they are pieces of the entire framework. |
Enterprise Modeling and Its Applications in China,
ISO TC184 Plenary Symposium
Yuliu Chen, Richard A. Martin, Qing Li, 2005
Views in Information Systems, VAR05
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 2005
Architectural Principles for Enterprise Frameworks:
Guidance for Interoperability, ICEIMT04
Richard A. Martin, Edward L. Robertson and John A. Springer, 2004
Architectural Principles for Enterprise Frameworks, EMMSAD04
Richard A. Martin, Edward L. Robertson and John A. Springer, 2004
Architectural Principles for Enterprise Frameworks, IUCSTR594
Richard A. Martin, Edward L. Robertson and John A. Springer, 2004
Enabling Intelligence with Ontology, INCOSE INSIGHT 2004
Richard A. Martin, 2004
A Comparison of Frameworks for Enterprise Architecture Modeling, ER2003
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 2003
Frameworks: Comparison and Correspondence for Three Archetypes, ZIFA2002
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 2002
A Formal Enterprise Framework to Support Multi-model Analysis, EMMSAD2000
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 2000
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, BerlinWorkshop2000
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 2000
Formalization of Zachman Frameworks, ZIFA1999
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 1999
Formalization of Multi-level Zachman Frameworks, IUCSTR522
Richard A. Martin and Edward L. Robertson, 1999