An In-Depth Analysis of Enterprise Architecture in Business Context

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Enterprise Architecture (EA) through three case studies: SteelCo, MultiCorp, and FinCorp. The report begins with an introduction to EA, emphasizing its role in strategic planning, IT infrastructure management, and aligning IT with business objectives. The first case study, SteelCo, examines the application of matrix administrative architecture within its Alpha and Beta divisions, focusing on IT's role in connecting departments and the need for architects and executives to manage operations. The second case study, MultiCorp, explores a diversified business structure with three distinct strategic units (Alpha, Beta, and Gamma) and discusses the importance of EA in establishing efficient business processes, managing information, and making IT decisions. The final case study, FinCorp, analyzes the challenges of implementing an EA tool and suggests improvements to leverage its full potential. The report concludes by highlighting the benefits of EA in organizational restructuring, process integration, and IT risk management, providing a framework for businesses to optimize their IT infrastructure and achieve strategic goals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:-...................................................................................................................................2
Report 1.1........................................................................................................................................2
SteelCo:-..........................................................................................................................................2
Answer 1:-...................................................................................................................................2
Answer 2:-...................................................................................................................................3
Report 1.2........................................................................................................................................4
MultiCorp:-......................................................................................................................................4
Answer 1:-...................................................................................................................................4
Answer 2:-...................................................................................................................................5
Answer 3:-...................................................................................................................................6
Answer 4:-...................................................................................................................................6
Report 1.3:-......................................................................................................................................7
FinCorp:-..........................................................................................................................................7
Answer 1:-...................................................................................................................................7
Answer 2......................................................................................................................................8
Answer 3......................................................................................................................................9
Answer 4......................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion:-...................................................................................................................................10
References:-...................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:-
The Enterprise architecture is an appropriate practice for showing enterprise
investigation, planning, design, and execution, using an inclusive methodology at all times, for
the ongoing expansion and implementation of the strategy. EA assist industries structure IT
policies and projects to accomplish desired economic consequences and to stay on the highest
position of industry developments and interruptions using architecture ideologies. This EA wants
to take into justification the existing embedded base of IT properties, the current EA, the firm's
viewpoints and practices, the desired industry strategy, and the available outlines to progress a
new EA or adapt the existing one. In this report are describing three organizational case study
where these EA methodologies are applying directly.
Report 1.1
SteelCo:-
Answer 1:-
SteelCo is one of the most significant steel-producing organization. In the current time,
these manufacturing industries are divided into two major parts, such as Alpha and Beta1. Two
major sectors are administered from the central headquarter and report their financial to top
business administrators for their contemplation. Hereafter, the matrix administrative architecture
will be the highest suitable for this category of an organization where not only upright
communication but also parallel communication amongst the different departments will improve
the functionality of the industry. The IT division needs to link to entire departments for enhanced
1 Rouhani, B.D., Mahrin, M.N.R., Nikpay, F., Ahmad, R.B. and Nikfard, P., 2015. A systematic literature review on
Enterprise Architecture Implementation Methodologies. information and Software Technology, 62, pp.1-20.

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management of computerized processes. Another Division Beta must have a communal division
of corporate facilities, which are the Finance, human resources and IT2. Every one of the three
central un3its, including manufacturing procedures, distribution networks and sales and
marketing operations, should be involved with the above-mentioned typical sections.
Answer 2:-
This company needs some specific number of an architect who is constructing these
organization's entire business structure. Division alpha and division beta want to invest in their
entire processes like HR, IT, sales and production. In the division, alpha is hiring more than 150
in house expert and more than 100 outside dealers on a full-time basis. If the number of
architects is more than 250 (internal and external), then they efficiently manage this all activities
of the Alpha value chain. The organization should employ more than 50 executives who are
reporting the progress ration of two-division and also helps to set their agendas and competitive
strategies3. The problematic and dynamic division beta also offers three different product core
lines and also concentrated on several commercial segments4. The entire goods are invented from
comparable raw materials and machinery created from equivalent suppliers. That is the main
reason Division Beta is employed more than 450 employees who are very much capable of IT
works.
In the meantime, this manufacturing organization includes a matrix design of
administrative architecture. It will involve separate administrators for every one of the sections in
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4 Lapalme, J., Gerber, A., Van der Merwe, A., Zachman, J., De Vries, M. and Hinkelmann, K., 2016. Exploring the
future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective. Computers in Industry, 79, pp.103-113.

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each of the divisions. The chief executive officer of this organization will lead both sections
(alpha, beta) and every of the departmental authority of Division Alpha and Beta must report to
the business leader of the SteelCo5. The seven sections of Alpha will each include an
architectural lead, which are the CSO, CPO, CIO, the law administrative, CFO, the HR
management and the inventory manager. While, another division (Beta) will have a CFO, HR
manager and CIO who will be governing all the line of products. Every core product line will be
taking a separate manufacturing authority, a sales executive and a marketing officer openly
reporting to the commercial head.
Report 1.2
MultiCorp:-
Answer 1:-
The divergence operating structure is the definite business frame of this multi-profile
establishment named MultiCorp. It includes a diversified functioning model because it
encompasses three distinct strategic commercial units that are not reliant on each other. The
Alpha unit is in the food engineering industry, whereas the Beta unit is in the restaurant sector
and lastly the Gamma Unit answerable for the resort industry. Every of the business units only
has any communal customers staying all the three units or any collective contractors supply raw
properties to the three sovereign business fields6. All the three commercial sectors of MultiCorp,
5 Löhe, J. and Legner, C., 2014. Overcoming implementation challenges in enterprise architecture management: a
design theory for architecture-driven IT Management (ADRIMA). Information Systems and e-Business
Management, 12(1), pp.101-137.
6 Safari, H., Faraji, Z. and Majidian, S., 2016. Identifying and evaluating enterprise architecture risks using FMEA
and fuzzy VIKOR. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 27(2), pp.475-486.

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the food engineering sector, the restaurant and the resort industry includes independent
administration of the units and their actions are exceptional from each other. The information
shared between the three business divisions are very rare, and the choices taken by the IT section
are also restricted within the detached business units. With universal rivalry and advancing
knowledge, EA is a vital way for these businesses to deliberate how to construct themselves most
efficiently to get from wherever they are to where they observe themselves in the upcoming of
their manufacturing sector.
Answer 2:-
The uniform business procedures throughout the business are to set up possible
reasonable approaches to tolerate in the market, monitor speculation arrangements across all
commercial units, and assign finances in the departments to submit yearly welfares. Conversely,
since Alpha unit is an industry of engineering foods, the standard procedures of this unit are to
generate unique excellence of products, supply and preserve them, carrying them to the
neighbour shops and food vendors along with handling the apparatus involved in the procedure7.
The Beta Unit that bearings the restaurant industry contains strand business procedures like
employing the waiters, cooks, and other facility providers, teaching them, obtaining of resources,
cookery and scrubbing as well as appearing customer objections. The Gamma Unit includes the
resort industry and thus, comprises standard procedures like delivering most beautiful quality
facilities to its clients, conduct entire back-office procedures and execute effective plans in
modifying client facilities.
7 Niemi, E. and Pekkola, S., 2017. Using enterprise architecture artefacts in an organisation. Enterprise Information
Systems, 11(3), pp.313-338.

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Answer 3:-
From the time when this multi-profile company has several commercial units, the
incorporation of information is also prepared unit-wise. The Alpha Division of the food
engineering industry collect documents about their day-to-day production of foods as well as the
quantity that is carried to the local retailers and shops. They handle information about their
portfolios that contains the groceries, vegetables and dairy or meat products but are not restricted
to it8. They similarly manage information about the vendors and local food factories as well as
their contractors and workers. On the other hand Unit Beta, keep information about their
workers, inventories, and the income created from the entire 80 restaurants and the loss
declarations if happened.
The Gamma Unit mostly contains information about client description, their preferences
and history and transactional particulars. This document aids them to improve their commercial
scope amongst fresher clients9. The businesses are observing for a technician who can support
make choices about whether to apply the in-house data centre. These necessities are narrowly
concentrated on one characteristic of these organization's IT structure.
Answer 4:-
The highest-level arrangement of IT background in the MultiCorp Company is the
Commercial Unit Level structure that is dedicated within each of the corporate units. The IT
substructure includes the IT policy as well as the Commercial Approach. It supports it with the
8 Azevedo, C.L., Iacob, M.E., Almeida, J.P.A., van Sinderen, M., Pires, L.F. and Guizzardi, G., 2015. Modeling
resources and capabilities in enterprise architecture: A well-founded ontology-based proposal for ArchiMate.
Information systems, 54, pp.235-262.
9 Dang, D.D. and Pekkola, S., 2017. Systematic Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture in the Public Sector.
Electronic Journal of e-Government, 15(2).

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IT mechanisms to deliver customer facilities as well as regulate their operations professionally.
The Commercial Unit infrastructure contains different categories of structures like as the order
handling system, the production coordination, the transaction method and all of these succeed the
vendor facts as well as the client data10. The division of Alpha, Gamma and Beta units apply the
transaction handling method to cope with their information of transactions from their trades and
use order processing method to give and take orders from clients and vendors correspondingly.
EA provides value by offering business and IT authority with signature-ready references for
regulating strategies and projects to accomplish targeted economic consequences that exploit on
applicable business disturbances.
Report 1.3:-
FinCorp:-
Answer 1:-
The fixed “Enterprise Architect tool” of the FinCorp authority was not of much applied
because it did not assist much in the commercial procedures of the company. The CIO of the
business was not pleased with the execution of the tool because it only represented as a
sophisticated source that was cooperative for keeping the present business evidence. While the
company arranged and modified the tool itself, to uphold transparency in the commercial process
and examines business choices, it unsuccessful to deliver with its facilities in the end.
Furthermore, nobody in the business was able to grip the tool, excluding the four to five
designers who were conscious of the roles of the tool and might use it professionally. It covers
10 Vargas, A., Cuenca, L., Boza, A., Sacala, I. and Moisescu, M., 2016. Towards the development of the framework
for inter sensing enterprise architecture. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 27(1), pp.55-72.

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all the desirable pieces for a robust framework. It has a common vocabulary to apply, mentioned
standards and acquiescence methods, advocated tools and software, and even a technique to
describe best performs.
Answer 2
The EA tool integrated by FinCorp authority failed to add importance to the business
because it did not deliver the organization with other possible welfares apart from keeping their
present business evidence in the central source. Initially, the tool was intended in a method such
that it has relevant competences and can subsidize to the informed decision-making among the
shareholders of the industry. Though, the enterprise architecture tool did not create any such
assistances because none other than the four-five designers could apply it11. It should assist
organizations in enhancing and arranging their expenses, reducing budgets on items that are
subordinate to critical commercial goals. In preparation, however, these assistances have not
always emerged. Furthermore, another objective of the EA tool was to progress the industry by
supporting the IT with the practical actions, to which again the tool did not enhance any
influence.
Answer 3
The architecture tool of the FinCorp industry does not donate more to the organization
other than keeping the generated commercial information in its central storehouse12. Conversely,
the tool can be modified to oblige other determinations in the association too. Firstly, joining the
11 Närman, P., Franke, U., König, J., Buschle, M. and Ekstedt, M., 2014. Enterprise architecture availability analysis
using fault trees and stakeholder interviews. Enterprise Information Systems, 8(1), pp.1-25.
12 Bogner, J. and Zimmermann, A., 2016, September. Towards integrating microservices with adaptable enterprise
architecture. In 2016 IEEE 20th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW) (pp.
1-6). IEEE.

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power of Unified Displaying Languages along with other modelling languages, the tool can
assist the resolution of tactical modelling of the business and its commercial actions.
Furthermore, the enterprise architecture tool can also be applied in FinCorp for increasing and
handling the necessities. Progress of software is another extent where the architecture tool can
donate in the company. With its investigative competences, the tool can support in making
tactical business choices and thus, progress the business in all features.
Answer 4
For exploiting the significance of the Enterprise Architecture tool in the FinCorp
authority, the CIO of the business alongside with the four or five designers. Who identify how to
switch the tool must analysis the business procedures and develop incremental varieties with
Time Aware Modelling that will support in migrating the fundamentals of the business over
multiple descriptions13. Wholesalers who sell EA products and facilities and advisors who
propose business assistance are usually applying this meaning when they express about
enterprise architecture. This is the description that suggests the extreme potential advantage for
this administrations. A gap investigation is suggested between the other model objects and the
solution construction like that the innovative model can fill in the inadequacies, in that way
adding charge to the industrial processes14. The designers can also produce imitations without
creating any variations in the ‘as-is’ design to research the model and execute it if it turns out to
be positive.
13 Jugel, D. and Schweda, C.M., 2014, September. Interactive functions of a cockpit for enterprise architecture
planning. In 2014 IEEE 18th international enterprise distributed object computing conference workshops and
demonstrations (pp. 33-40). IEEE.
14 Farwick, M., Schweda, C.M., Breu, R. and Hanschke, I., 2016. A situational method for semi-automated
Enterprise Architecture Documentation. Software & Systems Modeling, 15(2), pp.397-426.

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Conclusion:-
EA can propose support for re-organization and re-design, especially throughout
significant organizational variations, unifications or procurements. It is also beneficial for
carrying more control into the business by regulating and combining procedures for more
reliability. Enterprise architecture is also applied in system progress, IT supervision and
decision-making, and IT risk management to remove mistakes, system disappointments and
safety breaches. It can also assist industries in navigating complex IT constructions or in creating
IT more available to other commercial units. EA determines to make a frame of IT assets and
streamlined procedures and a set of governance ethics that drive a constant argument about the
commercial approach and how it can be articulated through IT. In this report are describing three
different types of organizations which can be framed EA structure for their organization
betterment.
References:-
Azevedo, C.L., Iacob, M.E., Almeida, J.P.A., van Sinderen, M., Pires, L.F. and Guizzardi, G.,
2015. Modeling resources and capabilities in enterprise architecture: A well-founded ontology-
based proposal for ArchiMate. Information systems, 54, pp.235-262.

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Bogner, J. and Zimmermann, A., 2016, September. Towards integrating microservices with
adaptable enterprise architecture. In 2016 IEEE 20th International Enterprise Distributed Object
Computing Workshop (EDOCW) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Dang, D.D. and Pekkola, S., 2017. Systematic Literature Review on Enterprise Architecture in
the Public Sector. Electronic Journal of e-Government, 15(2).
Farwick, M., Schweda, C.M., Breu, R. and Hanschke, I., 2016. A situational method for semi-
automated Enterprise Architecture Documentation. Software & Systems Modeling, 15(2),
pp.397-426.
Foorthuis, R., Van Steenbergen, M., Brinkkemper, S. and Bruls, W.A., 2016. A theory building
study of enterprise architecture practices and benefits. Information Systems Frontiers, 18(3),
pp.541-564.
Jugel, D. and Schweda, C.M., 2014, September. Interactive functions of a cockpit for enterprise
architecture planning. In 2014 IEEE 18th international enterprise distributed object computing
conference workshops and demonstrations (pp. 33-40). IEEE.
Lapalme, J., Gerber, A., Van der Merwe, A., Zachman, J., De Vries, M. and Hinkelmann, K.,
2016. Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective. Computers in
Industry, 79, pp.103-113.
Löhe, J. and Legner, C., 2014. Overcoming implementation challenges in enterprise architecture
management: a design theory for architecture-driven IT Management (ADRIMA). Information
Systems and e-Business Management, 12(1), pp.101-137.