The Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an IT architectural discipline that merges strategic business and IT objectives with opportunities for change and governs the resulting change initiatives.
The main goals of EA are:
- Faster, better-informed, strategic and tactical decisions with validated results
- Prioritized investments to support business goals
- Improved risk management of organizational transformation
- Enterprise-level communication and visibility for people, processes and assets
- Standardization and governance of shared business and IT building blocks
The steps of an enterprise planning cycle are typically standardized via EA frameworks such as TOGAF.
