The Art Of Enterprise Information Architecture

EIA has become the lifeline for business sustainability and competitive advantage today. Firms of all sizes search for practical ways to create business value by getting their arms around information and correlating insights so business and technical leaders can confidently predict outcomes and take action. For all business and technical executives around the world, the information era poses unique challenges: How can they unlock information and let it flow rapidly and easily to people and processes that need it? How can they cost-effectively store, archive, and retrieve a

-virtual explosion of new information? How do they protect and secure that information, meet compliance requirements, and make it accessible for business insight where and when it is needed? How can they mitigate risks inherent in business decision making and avoid fraudulent activities in their own operations?

Senior leaders have come to realize that intelligence, information, and technology will radically and quickly change how business is done in the future. Globally integrated enterprises require that business become more intelligent and more interconnected day by day. With these changes come amazing opportunities for every business: It is now possible to gain intelligence of information created by millions of smart devices that have been and even more will be deployed and connected to the Internet. The fundamental nature of the Internet has changed into an Internet of interconnected devices communicating with one another. Individuals are also creating millions of new digital footprints with transactions, online communities, registrations, and movements. To cope with this explosion of data, creating new data centers with exponentially larger storage and faster processing is necessary but by itself is not sufficient. Businesses now require new intelligence to manage the flow of information and surface richer insights to make faster, better decisions. 

Consequently, what business leaders realize is that a new approach to EIA is needed. They realize that an architectural foundation is necessary to effectively address these business challenges to provide best practices for how to unlock business insight and for how to apply architectural patterns to business scenarios supported by reference models, methodologies, diagnostics, and tools.

With The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture: A Systems-Based Approach for Unlocking Business Insight, we've outlined the right methods and tools to architect information management solutions. We've also outlined the right environment to enable the transformation of information into a strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged for sustained competitive advantage.

This book explains the key concepts of information processing and management, the methodology for creating the next generation EIA, how to architect an information management solution, and how to apply architectural patterns for various business scenarios. It is a comprehensive architectural guide that includes architectural principles, architectural patterns, and building blocks and their applications for information-centric solutions. The following is what you can expect from reading the chapters of this book.