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Certified Enterprise Architect Professional (CEAP) - Module 3 - Architecture and Architects

Architecture and Architects:

Enterprise Architects provide navigation and guidelines to achieve future goals, thus generating growth and progression.

Enterprise Architects must consider architecture from several perspectives, including:

1) Application Architecture:

Application architecture is the blueprint for designing and building a software application.

Example:

Microservices architecture

2) Technology Architecture:

Technology architecture is a component of enterprise architecture that focuses on the technical aspects of an organization's IT infrastructure.

Example: 

interconnected hardware and software, like networks, clouds, servers, clients, printers, tablet PCs, and smartphones.

3) Business Process Architecture:

In enterprise architecture, "Business Process Architecture" refers to a hierarchical model that maps out an organization's key business processes, outlining their relationships, dependencies, and interactions to ensure alignment with the overall business strategy, essentially providing a visual representation of how work is done within a company to achieve its goals; it's a critical component of enterprise architecture that focuses specifically on the design and structure of business processes within an organization. 

Example:

  • Customer Order Processing
  • Inventory Management
  • Product Delivery
  • Customer Support

4) Information Architecture:

In enterprise architecture, "information architecture" refers to the structured design that defines how an organization manages and accesses its data and information assets, including the structure, classification, and relationships between different data sources, essentially acting as a blueprint for how information flows within the entire enterprise and supports business operations; it's considered a key component of the broader enterprise architecture framework, focusing specifically on the information layer and how it interacts with other architectural elements like applications and business processes. 

Example:

An example of information architecture within enterprise architecture would be a large retail company like Walmart, where their "Retail Link" system acts as a central hub for managing product data, inventory levels, sales information, and supply chain logistics across all stores, allowing them to access real-time information for efficient decision-making and optimized operations, effectively structuring and organizing data from disparate systems across the enterprise to provide a unified view for analysis and action; this structured data access is a key component of their information architecture within the broader enterprise architecture. 

5) Business Service Architecture:

This perspective focuses on the business processes that the organization uses to carry out its operations. It includes aspects such as workflow, business rules, and process automation.

Example:

Customer order processing: This service would encompass the entire process from when a customer places an order to when the product is shipped, involving interactions with different systems like inventory management, payment processing, and shipping logistics.


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