This assignment focuses on designing the architecture for General Electric's Industrial Internet, a big data and analytics system. It utilizes Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture templates to create a business-centric system. The design process involves outlining capabilities, creating diagrams (Building Block, Architecture Overview, Logical), breaking down components into Operational Models, and describing geographically located nodes and their data connections. Throughout the design, emphasis is placed on the required big data and analytics capabilities for improving productivity and reliability.