Understanding Enterprise Architecture

This course introduces the context, relevance, and benefits of enterprise architecture (EA) within medium to large enterprises. It describes the influence EA practice plays on strategy formulation and execution. The course then provides an overview of the role played by EA frameworks and what some of most popular EA frameworks in the industry offer. The course then goes on to describe the key pillars of enterprise architecture, i.e. business, applications, information, and technology architecture domains. It also covers other specialized architecture disciplines within the enterprise, such as security, cloud, big data, and enterprise social technologies. We then discuss an overview of the various roles and responsibilities within the enterprise architecture practice, thereby offering insights to aspiring developers and IT professionals about the knowledge and skills required to successfully transition to various architecture roles within the enterprise. The course concludes by providing a view of the future direction the enterprise architecture discipline is taking and how the adoption of enterprise agility will evolve the EA practice.