Abstract
Over the last two decades competition amongst organisations including financial institutions has increased tremendously. The value of information is critical to competition in different organisations. In addition, the management of cost of delivery and cohesiveness of information flow and use in the organisations continue a challenge to information technology (IT). In an attempt to address these challenges, many organisations sought various solutions, including enterprise information architecture (EIA). The EIA is intended to address the needs of the organisation for competitive advantage.This research article focused on the role of principles in the development and implementation of EIA. The article aimed to investigate how EIA could be best leveraged, exploited, or otherwise used to provide business value. The research brings about a fresh perspective and new methodological principles required in architecting the enterprise information.
Highlights
Enterprise information architecture (EIA) is one of the domains of enterprise architecture (EA)
Common terminology enables the consistent use of semantics of meaning across information systems and the entire organisation
The model illustrated in Box 1 was used in creating principles, which extend beyond organisational boundaries to external sources and targets including other government institutions
Summary
Enterprise information architecture (EIA) is one of the domains of enterprise architecture (EA). This helps the organisation to meet business objectives and goals by providing employees, stakeholders, partners and customers with improved access to quality information This is carried out through the design, development and implementation stages as defined by the principles of the EIA. The model illustrated in Box 1 was used in creating principles, which extend beyond organisational boundaries to external sources and targets including other government institutions This was understood to enable rapid business decision-making and information sharing within the organisation, with suppliers, partners and customers. The EIA was required to encourage decision makers both in the business and within IT to explore externalisation, optimisation of information value chains This includes planning of application portfolios and incremental use of the velocity of information across the organisation in an iteration process. The results from the analysis are articulated and presented
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