Enterprise Architecture: GovDept Report and Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) for GovDept, a mid-size governmental department. It begins by outlining a roadmap for IT projects over the next 2-3 years and identifies five key roles IT will play within the department, including improving internal working capabilities and enhancing service delivery. The report then details five essential EA artifacts to be delivered within 2-3 months, such as standards, visions, and considerations. It explains the importance of functional taxonomy for document classification and justifies the selection of a Unification operating model, emphasizing its suitability for the department's need for a strengthened IT infrastructure. Furthermore, the report discusses the role of standards and landscapes in EA implementation, highlighting best practices, technological homogeneity, and existing IT assets. It also examines five crucial IT initiatives, including ERP, CRM, and BI, and determines the considerations as EA artifacts, such as policies, principles, and analytical reports. Finally, it explores five subtypes of visions, like roadmaps and business capability models, used in EA artifacts implementation, providing a holistic view of the department's technology strategy. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of IT in improving operational capabilities and achieving desired objectives within the organization.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
1. Developing a comprehensive roadmap specifying about the projects should be executed in
the next 2-3 years.........................................................................................................................1
2. Five key roles that IT will play in the GovDept......................................................................1
3. Five key EA artifacts that would be delivered in 2-3 months.................................................2
4. Explanation of the taxonomy of documentations that will be implemented along with
justification regarding its importance to GovDept......................................................................2
5. Discussion about the operating model that will be implemented and the reason behind its
selection.......................................................................................................................................2
6. Discussion of the role of standards and landscapes in implementation of GovDept’s EA.....3
7. Discussion of the 5 types of IT initiatives that you have considered very important to
GovDept’s....................................................................................................................................3
8. Determination of the considerations as EA Artifacts that will be delivered in GovDept’s EA
.....................................................................................................................................................4
9. Discussion of the 5 subtypes of visions that will be used in EA artifacts implementation.....5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The role of IT is very important within an organisation towards the direction of improving
operational capability and attaining desired objectives. It is the prime duty over the management
of an organisation either private or government to adopt new technologies as the requirements
and change in time period. This will not only help to improve the competitiveness within a
business organisation but provides the opportunity to reduce their operational cost. The
organisation upon which this report is based known as GovDept. It is a mid-size governmental
department that involves in providing the services related to social nature to large number of
population of territory (Banaeianjahromi and Smolander, 2019).
The main aim of this report is to ascertain the role of technology in development of working
abilities of an organisation.
The aspects cover in report includes roadmap specifying about the projects executed in
the next 2-3 years, 5 key roles that IT will play in the GovDept, 5 key EA artifacts that would be
delivered in 2-3 months, taxonomy of documentations, operating model of implementation along
with justification and roles of standard and landscapes in implementation of GovDept’s EA.
Also, cover about 5 types of IT initiatives that are important for GovDept’s and 5 subtypes of
visions that you used in EA artifacts implementation.
MAIN BODY
1. Developing a comprehensive roadmap specifying about the projects should be executed in the
next 2-3 years
Roadmaps are known as specific visions that able to provide structured graphical views in
relation to the planned IT initiatives in specific business areas which will be having direct
business value. This is also considered as the essential subtype of visions that will exist in
majority within successful EA practices. This depicts the IT delivery schedules for different
business areas that were agreed by IT leaders and business officials. In essential manner, this will
provide the clear picture of IT plans that will deliver for the business in foreseeable future.
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2. Five key roles that IT will play in the GovDept
The five roles Played by IT if implemented perfectly within GovDept includes;
 It improves the internal working ability.
 It enhances the capacity to deliver better nature of social services to large public.
 It builds strong internal communication structure that strengthen the core business model.
 It improves the existing EA practice within the department.
 It brings coordination in different activities that improves decision making through
creating good relationships.
3. Five key EA artifacts that would be delivered in 2-3 months
The different key artifacts that will be delivered in next 2 to 3 months are presented below:
 Standards
 Vision
 Considerations
 Landscapes
 Outlines
 Designs
4. Explanation of the taxonomy of documentations that will be implemented along with
justification regarding its importance to GovDept
Functional taxonomy is used for the classification of documents. The importance of same
in using GovDept is that provides an opportunity to made each separate function more effective
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that enable to deliver desired results as per the standards and set targets. This not only help in
completion of individual targets but the core strengthened structure help in achievement of
overall objectives too (Fritscher, Pigneur, 2020).
5. Discussion about the operating model that will be implemented and the reason behind its
selection
An operating model characterizes what business forms are institutionalized and what
business information is shared across significant specialty units, for example lines of business,
business capacities or territorial workplaces.
The operating model that will be used known as Unification. It is an operating model with
high process institutionalization and high information reconciliation. Unification is fitting for
brought together associations comprising of comparative and reliant specialty units, for example
interrelated territorial or market portion divisions. In this Specialty units are overseen halfway,
perform comparable or covering business activities, run institutionalized business forms, have
all-inclusive incorporated exchanges, shared clients, items or providers. This is selected because
department needs high resolution that builds strengthened IT infrastructure (Kasemsap, 2018).
6. Discussion of the role of standards and landscapes in implementation of GovDept’s EA
EA artifacts related to standards
 Guidelines
 Technology reference models
 Patterns
 IT Principles
 Logical data models
 Some other similar but less popular EA artifacts
Role of standards in implementation of EA
Standards are known as reusable means for implementation of IT systems. The role they
played is related to attainment of technical consistency, regulatory compliance and technological
homogeneity. These also provide the information related to current technology stack, best
practices and implementation approaches (Mayer and et. al., 2019). The aspects in respect to
which is answer is provided includes;
 What best practices and approaches are adhered?
 What products, technologies and approaches cause problems?
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 What technologies and product goes old?
Role of Landscapes in implementation of EA
The main work of landscapes is to provide the information upon existing IT assets,
interrelationships and status. Also, this will provide the answer of many other different questions
includes;
 What type of IT assets have by an organisation?
 Which IT assets not supported by vendors?
 What IT assets cause problem in future?
7. Discussion of the 5 types of IT initiatives that you have considered very important to
GovDept’s
Five IT initiatives that are must to consider by GovDept includes:
 ERP
 CRM
 SCM
 BI
 ECM
 KM
8. Determination of the considerations as EA Artifacts that will be delivered in GovDept’s EA
Considerations are called as business focused rules of EA artifacts. This also describes
global business related rules which are defined collaboratively by It stakeholders and senior
business authorities.
The considerations which are needed to provide as EA artifacts in GovDept EA includes;
 Policies: Arrangements are explicit Considerations characterizing overall standards
normally of a prohibitive sort giving necessary remedies in specific territories. Policies
can be considered as a typical subtype of Contemplations regularly found in EA practices
(Shanks and et. al., 2018).
 Principles: Principles are explicit Considerations characterizing worldwide significant
level rules impacting all dynamic and arranging in an association. Principles can be
considered as a fundamental subtype of Contemplations found in most of EA rehearses.
 Analytical reports: Systematic Reports are explicit Considerations giving official level
examinations of significant innovation patterns and their latent capacity sway on the
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business. Analytical Reports can be considered as a phenomenal subtype of
Considerations utilized moderately once in a while (What is enterprise architecture?
2018).
 Conceptual data models: Conceptual Data Models are explicit Considerations giving
theoretical meanings of the fundamental information elements basic for the business and
their relationship. Conceptual Data Models can be considered as an exceptional subtype
of Considerations.
 Direction statements: Course Statements are explicit Considerations depicting theoretical
messages conveying major association wide choices with significant effect. Direction
Statements can be considered as a phenomenal subtype of Considerations.
 Some other EA artifacts that are similar in nature but less popular in type.
9. Discussion of the 5 subtypes of visions that will be used in EA artifacts implementation
Visions help in articulation and documentation of more specific agreements that guides the
organisation towards the performance long term actions from the development of effective IT
infrastructure within an organisation or department. This is also having subdivisions that help in
deep understanding of working practices towards building most effective IT infrastructure or EA
artifacts.
Visions are also considered as business focused structures related to EA artifacts. This
simultaneously provide elevated level business-situated portrayals of an association that will
grew cooperatively by senior business and IT partners (Steenkamp and et. al., 2019).
The five sub type of visions that will be used in the process of implementing EA artifacts
are presented below:
 Roadmaps
 Business capability models
 Target states
 Value chains
 Context diagrams
 Some other similar but less popular EA artifacts
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that role of IT in business in important
towards improvement of their working capacity and ability to sustain in market along with
accomplish desired objectives. It is an obligation over management that made regular updates in
technology to ensure high amount of competitiveness in actions.
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Kasemsap, K. (2018). The role of information system within enterprise architecture and their
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