Enterprise Architecture for Motor Vehicle Department System

This report provides an overview of enterprise architecture (EA) and its application within the context of the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD). The core concept of EA as a blueprint for organizational operations and structure is introduced, emphasizing its role in aligning IT capabilities with business objectives. The report uses the MVD as a case study, detailing the need to restructure its system for better efficiency. It highlights how EA can facilitate the transition from an outdated system to a modernized one by integrating various business processes and systems, including tax processing, credentials, and financial management. The report outlines the benefits of an EA program, such as improved system design, business-IT alignment, requirements engineering, and project management, and includes real-world examples from healthcare and Dell to illustrate EA's effectiveness. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of EA in achieving business goals, efficiency, and agility within organizations like the MVD.

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An enterprise architecture is an ideational blueprint which demonstrates the organization’s
operations and structure. The resolute of an enterprise architecture is to arbitrate that how a
company can gain the future and current objectives effectively and efficiently. An enterprise
architecture is the most significant and effective way which allows the organizations to make use
of technology and various capabilities of the IT in order to support the objectives and business
goals of the organization. An enterprise architecture is defined as the solution to formulize the
environment of an information technology, minimizes cost, and maximizes agility. In other
words, “enterprise architecture is measured as the aligned and structured collection of various
plans for the embodied representation of the company and the IT geography of an enterprise, in
every kind of state” (Bernus et al., 2012).
The Motor Vehicle Department is a comprehensive organization in the guidance of
Transportation's Secretary, and its usual services are capability, processing of tax, and
information management and safety for overnight transportation. At present, each of the business
like, processing of tax, credentials, and management of finances has their own processes and
systems. The motor vehicle department has decided the restructure the system of CSI. The
motive of this restructure to place all the smashed processing of motor vehicle department's core
areas of business in single contemporize system that is competent to embody the processes of the
motor vehicle department whilst having complete functionality. The newly structured system
should interface the other system, like motor vehicle department's purchasing, VCIN (Virginia
Criminal Information Network), inventory, system of human resource, system of traffic records
electronic data, and various other systems. The program of enterprise architecture is the most
appropriate solution which can be used to shift from the present obsolete system to the new
contemporize system. Further, the program of enterprise architecture uses materialize technology
and also the technology which is already in place to gain all the CSI restructure objectives of the
motor vehicle department. Moreover, the program of enterprise architecture pertains all required
disciplines, standards and policies in order to meet the regulations and the laws.
Examples of enterprise architecture program benefiting the motor vehicle department:
 Design and implementation of systems: At present, the department of the motor vehicle
has smashed processes for core areas of the business like credentials, processing of tax,
and the management of the finances. The program of enterprise architecture can also help

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in designing and implementing the single contemporize system in order to place all the
systems and processes together.
 Alignment of business IT: using the program of the enterprise architecture make sure the
understanding of department of motor vehicle’s objectives of the business like
centralizing the varied applications, offering a financial component, enriching the better
and advanced security, and by ascertaining business goals of the department of motor
vehicle. Program of the enterprise architecture helps the company to select the best
technology to the existing and present technology in order to achieve the business goals
of the department of motor vehicle.
 Requirements engineering: The documentation of enterprise architecture helps in order to
maximize the speed of gathering the required information for the department of motor
vehicles CSI restructured system from the users, stakeholders, and the customers.
Further, the documentation makes sure the accuracy of the requirements.
 The complexity of IT: Integration of the process and system of the department of a motor
vehicle makes the new system complicated. The program of enterprise architecture helps
in minimizing the complexity of the system as much as possible.
 Project management: Enterprise architecture demonstrates each role of the project
stakeholder and maximizes the communication and collaboration among them.
One example is that which Aparna Raman and Anjali Kaushik demonstrated in their
study that how the enterprise architecture is used to the system of healthcare in India. “ An
approach of enterprise architecture to the information system development of health enables
more significant inter relationships which are being unfold including various components which
are required to be aligned to various parts and minimizing the incentives and risk of
fragmentation, replication and lack of interoperability” (Kaushik, A., & Raman, A. 2015).
Another example demonstrates that hoe enterprise architecture is used in Dell. Dell is known as
the main manufacturer of the personal computers across the world. Dell uses it EA team in order
to figure out the direction for future for the team of IT with a road map of three years. According
to Dell, the usage of enterprise architecture is to reach the business goals, the company required
to change the infrastructure of IT. The process includes the consolidation of various multi-
national systems in order to improvise the efficiency, minimize the cost, and administer the
common standards (Chae et al., 2014).

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The program of enterprise architecture is useful for the organizations like the
department of the motor vehicle to redesign the present system to better and contemporize
systems. The program of enterprise architecture, the current and first stage (processes and
systems) be completely realized. Then the guide of enterprise architecture the company to utilize
appropriate technology in order to reach the goals and objectives of the business. Efficiency and
agility are some of the major goals of the enterprise architecture (Simon et al., 2014).

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