Assessing Business-IT Alignment Maturity and Application Architecture Components in Companies with Enterprise Architecture Implementation

Abstract

A comprehensive program acts as an integrated force among various business aspects, such as objectives, organizational structure, processes, data, automation aspects and hardware program. This study aimed to examine the business-IT alignment through the alignment between the components of enterprise architecture. Business-IT effective alignment requires analyzing the business problems and changes at all levels. The business -IT interface must be based on transparent and consistent business requirements and information; in fact, business related solutions should interact with IT solutions (Consurtium, 2001). This article tried to examine the business-IT alignment through the alignment between the components of enterprise architecture.