Concept Of Enterprise Architecture Research Articles

Optimizing Transportation Services: Using TOGAF for Efficiency and Quality

In the rapidly expanding transportation industry, it is crucial to make focused and coordinated efforts to improve services with maximum efficiency. This paper seeks to explore the optimization of the Enterprise Architecture approach to effectively attain the primary objectives of the transportation industry, specifically the enhancement of service quality. The main emphasis is on implementing the enterprise architecture methodology of the open group architecture framework on a strategic basis. This paper examines how Enterprise Architecture can offer systematic and quantifiable solutions by identifying problems in infrastructure and operational processes. The research aims to provide comprehensive insights into how the Enterprise Architecture concept can optimize operational efficiency and streamline processes in the provision of transportation services. By implementing TOGAF, it is expected that the integration of systems will be seamless, technology usage will be optimized, and customer experiences will be improved. To summarize, this paper demonstrates the desire to improve transportation services. It explains how Enterprise Architecture methods, specifically within the TOGAF framework, can directly lead to advantages such as increased operational efficiency and improved service quality. This paper aims to be easily understood by a wide range of readers, including management, Information Technology professionals, and other stakeholders in the transportation industry. It avoids using overly technical language to ensure accessibility and comprehensibility.

Enterprise Architecture Development to Strengthen Sustainability in the Supply Chain

In contemporary international business, the significance of sustainability in supply chain operations has emerged as a prominent area of interest. The present study investigates the significant impact that Enterprise Architecture has on enhancing the sustainability of enterprise supply chains. By integrating Enterprise Architecture concepts in their entirety, this study presents a framework that empowers organizations to formulate sustainable sustainability strategies. Enterprise Architecture is utilized to identify, manage, and integrate supply chain critical elements that impact sustainability, such as waste management, energy efficiency, resource utilization, and the selection of sustainable business partners. This research demonstrates how progressive Enterprise Architecture implementation can contribute to the sustainability of supply chains, assist organizations in addressing environmental and social challenges, and generate long-term value for businesses and their business ecosystems by delineating an all-encompassing architecture. This study examines in depth how the application of Enterprise Architecture can catalyze achieving supply chain sustainability and provides companies with guidance on how to design and implement sustainable, structured sustainability strategies.

A Realistic and Practical Guide for Creating Intelligent Integrated Solutions in Higher Education Using Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture (EA) plays a crucial role in organizations by providing a clear strategy for digital transformation and seamless information flow across boundaries. It is a tool for achieving current and future objectives effectively. By providing a comprehensive view, EA helps organizations build suitable and sustainable software solutions while avoiding complex challenges caused by unmanageable information flow blockages. Moreover, EA provides a standard framework for implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Although EA and ERP systems have different concepts, they possess complementary characteristics that support decision-makers in the ERP selection process, which can be quite risky due to cost feasibility, time consumption, and team effort. This study proposes using the EA concept as a reference module for selecting the most suitable integrated solution for the higher education sector. The aim is to provide high-impact criteria for choosing the most appropriate ERP system as a core solution. Additionally, EA supports other related solutions integrated with the ERP system under the EA umbrella to run a fully automated smart entity. To determine the most suitable ERP solution for higher education entities in the study country, a set of critical criteria for ERP selection as a core solution in the education sector is generated through brainstorming, which is based on an EA reference module specifically designed for higher education entities that seek to operate smartly. A comparison technique is employed to evaluate the highlighted criteria, including a case study for ABC University. The study’s results reveal that fully integrated and sustainable solutions can be envisioned for higher education entities, which can support the digital transformation of the higher education sector based on a smart EA reference module along with a set of critical main ERP selection criteria. This can mitigate the risk associated with ERP selection as a core solution and support decision-makers in selecting the most suitable ERP package for educational entities.

A Smart Co-Operative Management Framework Based on an EA Concept for Sustainable Development

A smart co-operative management framework aims to apply ICT to provide better services and increase management efficiency. The findings of previous studies suggest that the framework is suitable for any co-operative organization that uses information technology to improve its services, management, and governance. Therefore, this paper has applied a smart co-operative management conceptual model to a smart co-operative management framework. It is a smart co-operative management concept that complies with strategic management for responding to technological disruption. A smart co-operative management framework combines business and technology to align the concept to establish efficiency and governance in co-operative management. This paper presents a smart co-operative management framework based on the EA concept for sustainable development in co-operative management. This framework was developed through a smart co-operative conceptual model, comprehensive literature review, and requirement analysis based on the conceptual framework consisting of five layers: business, application, data and information, infrastructure and technology, and governance. Content validity was used for evaluation. This framework demonstrates that technology could enhance the co-operative sector through the layers of applications, data, and information supported by infrastructure and technology. This study shows the framework for sustainable development co-operatives in the co-operative sector. It also creates value through enterprise architecture (EA) and the smart co-operative management concept.

Activating supply chain business models' value potentials through Systems Engineering

AbstractNew business opportunities, driven by smart digitalization technology and initiatives such as Industry 4.0, significantly change business models and their innovation rate. The complexity of methodologies developed in recent decades for balancing exploration and exploitation activities of digital transformation has risen. Still, the desired integration levels across organizational levels were often not reached. Systems thinking promises to holistically consider interdisciplinary relationships and objectives of various stakeholders across supply chain ecosystems. Systems theory‐based concepts can simultaneously improve value identification and aligned transformation among supply networks’ organizational and technical domains. Hence, the study proposes synthesizing management science concepts such as strategic alignment with enterprise architecture concepts and artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven business process optimization to increase innovation productivity and master the increasing rate of business dynamics at the same time. Based on a critical review, the study explores concepts for innovation, transformation, and alignment in the context of Industry 4.0. The essence has been compiled into a systems engineering‐driven framework for agile value generation on operational processes and high‐order capability levels. The approach improves visibility for orchestrating sustainable value flows and transformation activities by considering the ambidexterity of exploring and exploiting activities and the viability of supply chain systems and sub‐systems. Finally, the study demonstrates the need to harmonize these concepts into a concise methodology and taxonomy for digital supply chain engineering.

Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities: Developing an Empirical Grounded Research Agenda

ABSTRACT The concept of Enterprise Architecture is suitable for managing the complexity of heterogeneous systems and technologies in Smart Cities. However, many cities and their urban governance processes still face the challenges of digitalizing public services. This paper aims to assess the applicability of TOGAF in a real-world Smart City following a case study method. A novel research agenda with ten major directions is provided as a result of the practical observations. This contributes to the current understanding of the application of Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities, focusing on the identified issues in practice and the need for further research.

Electricity System Built on Cyber-physical Enterprises: Architecture Analysis

Energy distribution systems can improve in adaptiveness by applying the concepts of cyber-physical systems (CPS), cyber-physical enterprise, and service-oriented architecture. With these paradigms, the information and communications technology (ICT) systems can respond to changes in the requirements and conditions of the environment, improving responsiveness to the fluctuation of electricity production from renewable energy sources (RES). This paper analyzes the suitability of a CPS architecture for the electricity distribution system. The novelty comes from a service-oriented model where customers and microgrids can sell services to one another and operators, building added value on existing energy resources. The architecture is analyzed with a coordinated voltage control (CVC) use case. The results suggest that the architecture can open new possibilities in utilizing energy resources and enables a customer-driven, distributed scheme instead of the strict operator-centric hierarchy of the contemporary systems.

The practical roles of enterprise architecture artifacts: A classification and relationship

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a description of an enterprise from an integrated business and IT perspective. EA is typically defined as a comprehensive blueprint of an organization covering its business, data, applications and technology domains and consisting of diverse EA artifacts. EA has numerous potential stakeholders and usage scenarios in organizations. However, the existing EA literature does not offer any consistent theories explaining the practical roles of individual EA artifacts and fails to explain how exactly different types of EA artifacts are used in practice. This study intends to explore the roles of different EA artifacts in organizations and develop a generic descriptive theory explaining these roles. The theory purports to cover various properties of EA artifacts as well as the relationships between them. The research method of this study follows two consecutive phases: theory construction and theory validation. First, theory construction is based on the qualitative in-depth analysis of five case organizations with established EA practices. Next, theory validation includes confirmatory interviews with ten EA experts. This study develops a descriptive theory explaining the roles of different EA artifacts in an EA practice. The resulting theory defines six general types of EA artifacts (Considerations, Standards, Visions, Landscapes, Outlines and Designs, CSVLOD) and explains their type-specific practical roles, including their informational contents , typical usage, ensuing organizational benefits and interrelationships with each other. This study presents the first systematic theory describing the usage of EA artifacts in organizations. Our theory facilitates better theoretical understanding of the concept of EA and also provides evidence-based solutions to the commonly reported practical problems with EA. This study suggests that the EA research community should focus on studying individual EA artifacts instead of studying EA in general and calls for further research on EA artifacts and their usage as part of EA practices.

Digital Enterprise Architecture for Green SPBE in Indonesia

SPBE (Electronic Based Government System) is a legal protection as new breakthroughs in the reform of Indonesian government bureaucracy. The issuance of Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 95/2018 concerning SPBE is expected to be a reference for the transformation from e-Government into i-Government (integrated Government). In the meantime, the government through the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) is drafting an academic paper on the SPBE Bill. Of the 10 elements contained in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 95/2018, the second element namely SPBE architecture is a concept known in the world of Information Systems as Enterprise Architecture.Enterprise architecture is a conceptual framework that describes how an enterprise is constructed by defining its primary components and the relationships among these components. In SPBE, the main component is defined as domain, consisting of 6 parts, namely: business process architecture domain, data and information, infrastructure, SPBE applications, security, and SPBE services. Unfortunately, the Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 95/2018 has not regulated the concept of Digital Enterprise Architecture, since between Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Digital Enterprise Architecture (DEA) are two things that are significantly different. If EA merely focuses on structuring the company based on the main frame of reference, then DEA focuses on utilizing digital repositories to create living documents as according to the EA framework so that they are easily accessed, modified and managed at any time following the company's development. This study created a DEA model for SPBE in Indonesia. The model created is adapted to the SPBE architecture by carrying out the concept of a digital repository. With digital repositories, time efficiency, paper savings and change management will be easier to achieve. The model created in this study is expected to be utilized to make SPBE much more efficient and green-minded.

Dynamic Enterprise Architecture planning using case-based reasoning and blockchain

Nowadays, Enterprises are aware that the only existing certainty, is a future of great uncertainty (Allen Paulos). Therefore, the potential drivers of change should be detected and the solutions or path to solutions should be prepared in advance. In our work we adopt, the concept of Enterprise architecture, as the tool ensuring the alignment strategy//business//IT. So, to implement any change, we propose using CBR for case-based reasoning to store a set of problems with their solutions, and then to use algorithms of similarity and adaptation to propose the most adapted solution to the problem. Our goal in this paper is to maximize experiences and enrich the knowledge base so that the reasoning mechanism and similarity process is as reliable as possible.Thus, we suggest, a sharing of knowledge bases between allied or contracted companies or subsidiaries. (Example national strategy to be implemented regionally on a case-by-case basis) to ensure reliable sharing, we suggest the use of blockchain technology.

Perancangan Enterprise Architecture Pada Perusahaan Operator Kereta Api Menggunakan Metode Togaf ADM

The Railway network has been the backbone of many cities around the world. Solving traffic congestion problems from excessive use of private vehicles. High mobility is one of the traits in modern society and most governments are obligated to provide high standard public services. But having a railway operator does not come at a cheap price, yet it becomes a burden when it wrongly manages. Railway operators as public transportation companies should have strategic planning on how to be independent financially and profitable. The company should adopt technology to create operational efficiency, lean organization structure and unfolded possibilities of getting multiple revenue streams. Thereby Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the remedy, a foremost framework which connects business processes, information systems, and information technology in the easiest way to digest. The author would like to propose an EA concept using TOGAF ADM phases for railway operators based on literature study. The purpose of this paper is to give insight and supposedly help any railway operators company get a better perspective on the use of EA.

Integration of Business Processes With Activities and Information: Evidence From Brazil

This study proposes a management model by business processes for science parks based on the premises and concept of enterprise architecture (EA). The model offers integrating business processes with activities and information that can be generated by adopting customized information systems to meet the science parks’ needs. The proposed model’s main contributions included EA as a means for shaping and enabling reconfiguration through descriptions of the structures of business processes and information systems that connect these structures, forming business and information architecture frameworks. In association with these frameworks, the managers need to define a coherent set of patterns, policies, procedures, and principles that sustain the business processes integrated with the information systems. As a result of the study, this model can help management execute and control activities related to business processes in the parks through interaction and alignment with the information system intended to facilitate the execution. The model will also lead to greater agility and efficiency in these business processes, considering their specific nature and the relationship with the parks’ actors. As a practical contribution, knowledge of these processes aids the management of the parks in their drive for a competitive advantage by maintaining and developing their management models.

Perencanaan Enterprise Architecture Pelayanan Informasi Meteorologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika

The importance of the research was carried out because of the increasing public demand for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) assisted information system services at the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). The expansion aims to be done with the concept of Enterprise Architecture (EA) which includes the pattern of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) which has provided Architecture Development Method (ADM). The method approach used is design research which includes service concepts, architectural design, and the feasibility blueprint for computer-aided information systems in the future. The instrument used was through observation sheets, interview guides and documentation to gather planning information, and using a product questionnaire involving 5 experts consisting of 3 ICT lecturers and 2 business managers, while the practicality test involved 5 respondents. The study took place in BMKG Padang Panjang, West Sumatra Province, from June to September 2019. The data analysis technique in this study used descriptive analysis techniques. This study has produced a design that meets the criteria set out by the standard validity and practicality tests. Based on the results of tests conducted by experts (validator), it was found that the information system service blueprint was feasible to be built with 92% and 82% acceptance of the very valid category in the very practical category. because it is proven valid and practical.

IT and technological architecture of healthcare organization

The healthcare industry has changed significantly over the past few years. This is largely due to widespread digitalization, as well as a shift in the emphasis of medical care towards patient focus. This led to the emergence of approaches such as value-based and personalized medicine, as well as the concept Health 4.0. An increasing number of medical organizations are striving to follow the indicated trend, but this becomes impossible without the provision of proper information support. In this regard, most medical organizations are faced with the need to reorganize the existing information and technological architecture. The main goal of this article is to develop methodological principles and an algorithm for the formation of an IT architecture and technological infrastructure of a medical organization that plans to implement the principles of value-based and personalized medicine using modern digital technologies. The methodological basis for the ideas proposed in the article was the concept of enterprise architecture, as well as the TOGAF architecture description standard.

Enterprise Architecture Concept for Digital Manufacturing

The purpose of the research is to study and analyze the impact of technologies of Industry 4.0 on the development of manufacturing companies and its effect of enterprise architecture within the companies. The justification of the necessity or making changes in enterprise architecture with the implementation of the technologies of Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing processes of the company is given. The Reference Architecture Model for Industry 4.0 as well as Service-Oriented Architecture are analyzed as proper frameworks for manufacturing industry digital transformation. The results obtained in this work can be used by companies in order to create for themselves plans for development of manufacturing processes in order to reach higher level of development of the Industry 4.0.

Transport and Logistics Enterprise Architecture Model

The article argues that the fundamental transformations of business processes, characteristic of the era of digital economy, have so far affected Russian motor transport industry to a small extent. Digital transformation assumes a cardinal revision of the role of information technologies in management of the transportation process, based on a deep and comprehensive analysis of data, a fundamental change in approaches to organization of road transport production.To this end, it is proposed to consider the concept of enterprise architecture, covering various aspects of shaping different aspects of a transport and logistics company, as well as methods for modeling system solutions. The article analyzes transportation management system solutions, compares different approaches to the architecture of an enterprise, tools of its development like ER-charts, basic notations, life cycle, business motivation model. The suggested model semantically links real objects, ITand business processes, social aspects, and structure organisation of an enterprise.

The Enterprise DNA: Static and Dynamic Digital Representation of Organizations

The contemporary business environment become more complex and fast changing. The complex interactions and enterprise life cycle reminds the life of s species in the nature and , thus ,the mimic of biological entities can be applied as a modelling tool for better understanding how company operates and what makes it s successful. The broad purpose of this article is to propos e a foundation for applying Artificial Life s simulations for business analyse. Artificial Life is a concept that allow to mimic biological evolution and behaviour of living creatures for modelling complex systems , forming specific environment with interacting and evolving agents. The main goal of this paper is the research and suggestion of such characteristics and their representation, which will constitute Enterprise DNA. As the foundation of important company’s features, the Enterprise Architecture concept was applied. The Zach man Enterprise Architecture framework used as a base is of enterprise representation. Accordingly, the artefacts for phenotype representation are proposed and then, their digital XML representation found. The DNA digital representation model (genotype) for artefacts is proposed. This representation can be used by means of Genetic Algorithm for further implementation of Artificial Life’s simulation on real company’s data.

Ecosystem Architecture Management in the Public Sector – From Problems to Solutions

Based on our research concerning enterprise architecture (EA) in the Finnish public sector, we discuss how EA concept and tool need to be developed to support government business ecosystem and organization design. Our research context indicates, beyond a federal government or a state one, that even a single municipality, like a city concern, can be perceived as an ecosystem of its sectoral domains, subsidiaries and such. We outline a vision of an overall ontology-based, shared EA repository for the-whole-of-government current state descriptions and specify the central design principles and functional requirements for such a system, illustrating some potential use cases of it. Based on interview data from four smart city cases in Finland, we suggest a management model for the government ecosystem architecture target state design, specifically a design process for co-creating new services in the ecosystem. Further, we outline some principles for government ecosystem architecture management.

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR MODEL FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a strategy to attain alignment between an enterprise’s business and Information Technology (IT) to increase the competitiveness of an enterprise. In EA implementation, Critical Success Factors (CSFs) refer to factors that may facilitate the successful implementation of the EA. This research presents a CSF model based on an exhaustive literature review and empirical data from practitioners to identify rationalised CSFs. EA implementation projects that do not fully utilize the CSFs may result in inappropriate directions and dissatisfied EA project stakeholders. A quantitative research methodology is applied in this study using questionnaires to evaluate the proposed model. The respondents include enterprise architects, IT managers, and IT consultants with considerable knowledge of EA concepts. Statistical analysis is used to identify the relationships between the proposed CSFs and the success of EA implementation. From the results, the proposed CSF model is significantly related to EA implementation success. The highest-ranking CSF is governance, indicating the importance of governance in the success of EA implementation. Moreover, the proposed CSF model appears to facilitate achieving the desired architecture. By understanding the CSF model at the onset of a project, practitioners can better plan and focus on the CSFs to achieve the desired results.

A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Identifying Candidate Business Processes for Socialization

Social business processes support enterprises tap into the opportunities of Web 2.0. To ensure an efficient support, this paper presents an approach for identifying an enterprise’s business processes that could be converted into social. Indeed, not all processes are eligible for this conversion. The approach is built upon the concept of enterprise architecture that sheds the light on the necessary contextual elements for guiding the socialization of business processes. Due to the fuzzy nature of socialization, two multi-criteria decision making techniques, fuzzy logic and fuzzy-decision tree, enhance this guidance. A set of experiments for evaluating the proposed approach are presented in the paper, as well.