Abstract: An Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides an organization to operate effectively with a well-defined standards and artifacts in achieving its objectives. It maps all of the software development architectures and identifies the organization's Strengths, Weakness and Gaps and provides roadmap components to be used in achieving its mission. The Open Group was formed in mid-90’s and is a vendor – technology neutral consortium with over four hundred member organizations contributing in developing and managing the Industry standards in providing an Industry standard Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF). The TOGAF (1), its flagship framework emphasizes business goals as architecture drivers and provides a repository of Guidelines, Techniques, Models and Framework. With frameworks like TOGAF provides the Organizations with the guidance on the IT Architecture development, the need has raised to effectively manage IT and to have a professionalized IT architecture to run IT as a business. This has made the Open group's member organization to publish IT4IT (2) - An open standard value chain based Reference Architecture that can add values in managing IT as a Business. This study provides an overview of EA, its Framework and the importance of IT4IT with for executing IT as a business.
Keywords: Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF,ADM, IT4IT.
Title: An overview of The Open Group's Enterprise Architecture and Evolution of IT4IT
Author: Krishnamoorthy Marimuthu, Dr. V.Prasanna Venkatesan
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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