Enterprise Architecture Assignment 2022

Running head: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
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Table of Contents
Report 1.1.......................................................................................................................2
Johnson and Johnson case study................................................................................2
Report 1.2.......................................................................................................................3
Comparison of framework of EA...............................................................................3
Report 1.3.......................................................................................................................6
ERD diagram..............................................................................................................6
Report 1.4.......................................................................................................................7
EA and Big data.........................................................................................................7
EA and cloud computing............................................................................................9
References....................................................................................................................11

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Report 1.1
Johnson and Johnson case study
The main problem for the organisation is the decentralised enterprise architecture of
their IT setup. It restricted the company from proper utilisation of the IT resources from the
several branches of the company. The solution that could be proposed for this particular issue
is the centralised IT architecture in the organisation. any centralised architecture mainly
implies the easy availability of single or even few of the entities that have the control over the
complete network. The centralised approach commonly denotes that there would be one-hop
connectivity to all the network members but within the context of the short-range embedded
systems, is commonly realised by the use of multihop network. From the perspective of the
security in any organisation, the single centralised entity requires to be effectively monitored
for ensuring the safety of the entire network.
The organisation could implement this particular network for establishing efficient
communication among the various branches of the company. The aspect of the centralised
computing could be achieved with the implementation of the centralised architecture in the
organisation. centralised computing could be described as the kind of computing architecture
where majority of the processing or even computing is executed on the single server
(Lapalme et al. 2016). The centralised computing allows the deployment of all the computing
resources of the company from the central server (Proper and Lankhorst 2014.). This
centralised system mainly utilises the server/client architecture where one or even more than
one client nodes are effectively connected to any central server (Zarvić and Wieringa 2014).
This kind of network is the most common network kind that is used by the organisations
where the client sends any request to the company server and then receives the appropriate
response (Hinkelmann et al. 2016). The Johnson and Johnson company could utilise this

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particular architecture for allowing the proper use of the IT resources available in the
company branches.
In the present technological world, the Enterprise architecture is the discipline that has
evolved significantly for structuring the business and the alignment with all the IT systems of
the companies. Zachman Framework could be described as the enterprise ontology and it is
the fundamental structure for the enterprise architecture that offers an efficient method of
observing the information systems and the company from various perspectives and then
display the methods of association among the various components of the organisation. It
could be observed from the case study that the J&J company was facing significant difficulty
with the management of the IT resources and the changes in the markets. The major part of
this difficulty is the lack of proper internal understanding of the sophisticated structure as
well as the components in the various sectors of organisations where the legacy information
regarding the business is effectively locked away within the minds of particular employees or
the business units. This framework could be applied to the situation of the J&J where the
company realised the requirement of integration and of the IT system and the implementation
of common standards. The company realised that there is a requirement of realigning the IT
system with the innovative corporate strategy.
Report 1.2
Comparison of framework of EA
The processes that were proposed for the EA are the business architecture,
Information architecture, application architecture and the technology architecture. Zachman
Framework could be described as the enterprise ontology and it is the fundamental structure
for the enterprise architecture that offers an efficient method of observing the information
systems and the company from various perspectives and then display the methods of