Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture (EIA RA) and its implementation within the context of connected governments. It explores the benefits of intelligent enterprise design, including cost reduction, improved data management, and enhanced citizen centricity. The report details the functions of EIA RA, such as enhanced business intelligence capabilities and alignment of IT initiatives with business strategies. Furthermore, it outlines the advantages of using EIA RA, including increased citizen centricity, better infrastructure and interoperability, improved collaborative services and business operations, enhanced public sector governance, and the creation of a more transparent and open government. A diagram illustrates the governance process with the help of EIA RA. The report concludes with recommendations for future implementation, underscoring the importance of EIA RA in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of e-government services, emphasizing the need for citizen engagement, data-driven decision-making, and the adoption of innovative models to enhance government functions.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction...............................................................................................................2
2.0 Intelligent Enterprise Design.........................................................................................2
2.1 Function 1..................................................................................................................3
2.2 Function 2..................................................................................................................3
3.0 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture.......................................3
4.0 Conclusion & Recommendations...................................................................................6
References...........................................................................................................................7

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1.0 Introduction
Connected Government are one of the major evolving government methodology that
provides seamless functioning of the government agencies. This is one of the major aspect that
ensures that proper dimension of the government process can be performed. Jurisdiction of the
effective delivery provides efficient services to the citizens and the business organizations.
United Nations have been aiming in implementation of Enterprise Information Architecture
Reference Architecture in different governing bodies. With high acceptance of Enterprise
Information Architecture Reference Architecture, implementation of the technology has been
increasing. This is one of the major aspect that increases the efficiency of the connected
governments. This report will provide a proper Intelligence Enterprise Design benefits of the
business visionary and hence the main aspect that will be gained includes benefits that will be
gained after the implementation of the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture in the e government services. Functioning processing is well described as per the
diagram that is provided. Description of the diagrammatic approach is also performed.
Recommendations are also provided in this report.
2.0 Intelligent Enterprise Design
The main benefit that will be enjoyed is the cost reduction in the processing of business
management. The main aspect that is taken into consideration is reduction of cost of
interaction in between the government and the citizens. This helps in saving of funds in
communication process and invest the same in the betterment of the living standards.
Reduction in time in between the government and the citizens will also act beneficial in the
process of data management system (Mahmood 2016). In case of usage of the Enterprise
Information Architecture Reference Architecture, the main advantage that is gained includes
omission of the middle man that was initially required for proper communication process.
With the help of the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture, the
data that will be collected ensures the fact that the management of the project will get
beneficial and hence the management of planning process will get affected in a positive
manner. With proper evaluation of data planning gets performed and hence the execution
stage gets performed in a better way (Anshari and Almunawar 2016). Collection of economic
and demographic data collection gets very cheap and the cost that is included in the collection
of data gets more cost efficient. This increases the chance of prosperity will be high. Data of the
business organization collection also gets easy. This is one of the major aspect that processing
of the data management get easier. In case the usage of the data management of the
forecasting of the data driven future can be executed in a better manner.
Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture helps e government to get a
better connectivity with the business organizations that has been functioning under the
government (Boateng, Liu and Brahma 2019). Hence the processing period of the E government
reduces and hence the management of the governance functioning gets easier. Navigation
process gets facilitated after the implementation of the Enterprise Information Architecture
Reference Architecture. Electronic filling of application also gets operational in the field of
management of the governing body.

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In case of implementation of the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture, the e government will get benefitted as per the processing of the business vision.
In case of constant development of the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture framework the above stated advantages can be received in future.
2.1 Function 1
Enhanced BI capabilities
Enhancing of the BI capability is one of the major function that is taken into
consideration as per the execution of the business performance. The main advantage that is
received in the field of Business intelligence includes better gathering of data. Along with
proper gathering of data, analysis of data can also be done (Tang and Ho 2019). This will help in
understanding of the issues that are present in the performing of the business. This process
also helps in mitigation of the issues that are present.
2.2 Function 2
Enhanced alignment of IT initiatives with business strategies
Alignment of IT initiatives with business strategies of the governing body help in
increasing the efficiency of the governing boy in terms of economics and business visionary.
This process reduces the basic costs that are incurred in the process of governing body and
hence better results can be expected from the governing body
3.0 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
The benefits of using Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture
includes the increase in centricity of the citizens, betterment of the infrastructure and
interoperability, betterment in collaborative services and business operations, increases
efficiency in the Public Sector Governance, betterment of the network based organizational
model, inclusion in the sectional inclusion and having a transparent and Open Government.
 Increase in Citizen Centricity: This advantage is considered as one of the most
important aspect that has led to betterment of the functionality of the government that
has its framework based on the Enterprise Information Architecture. In this case the
main advantages that is received includes better understanding of the requirement of
the citizens. This helps in reaching out to the audience at a greater scale. This process
also help in staying connected to the audience and understanding the issue that they
are facing. Policies, services and programs are generated as per the demands of the
citizens and the entire process is citizen centralized (Kiran 2016). Keeping aside the
common people of the country different government constituents as well as the
business organizations are benefitted. Social inclusion is one of the major aspect that
the e government enjoys on using the terminology of the Enterprise Information
Architecture Reference.
 Increasing the common infrastructure and interoperability: This section of the
government management is mainly concerned with the transaction of data. In the
sectional management of e government data management is one of the major process
that needs to acknowledge in order to perform better citizen management. This is one

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of the main reason that Enterprise Information Architecture Reference finds its usage in
the framework of the e government framework. The advantage that is gained after the
usage of the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference in the government
processing. The data that are transacted through this platform gets dispatched in a
seamless manner (Song and Lee 2016). This sharing of Data in a seamless manner helps
in increasing the efficiency of The Data management. Interoperability is the section that
deals with detection of destination where the data is to be sent. This underlying
foundation get performed effectively as per the standardization of the common
infrastructure.
 Increase in collaborative service along with business operation: connected government
requires proper management of the ministries that are present in the collaboration
process. Importance of integrity for governance in the e government level is high. This
is one of the major aspect proper collaboration of service is required. With the usage of
the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference, the main advantage that is received
includes better commencing of the political functioning. This process will help in gaining
shallower stovepipes, redundancy elimination, service overlapping. This reduces the
loss of authority issues and control over the entire functional process.
 Better governance of the public sector entities: This strategy is mainly concerned with
the functioning of the processing sector that will help in better management of the
strategy implementation and hence the functioning of the business management gets
performed in a better manner. Good governance is considered to be non-negotiable in
the connected government framework (Pu 2018). This leads to the fact that better
management of the several layers of governing process can be performed. In case of
the processing of the federal, provincial, central governing strategies the main
advantage that is received includes better processing of the administration of the
political parties. This is the main reason that usage of Enterprise Information
Architecture Reference benefits the functioning of the differentially structured and
layered political parties.
 Highly organized model: in case of connected government introduction of new models
is very important. The importance of the model is such high because the functional
process gets performed in a better manner and hence the processing of the connected
government is highly dependent on the integrity of the autonomous ministry. This is
one of the major aspect that will benefit the functioning pf the government. Virtual
organization of the network benefits the functional process of the government. With
coherent functioning of the government that uses EIARA proper value can be provided
and hence the functional process can be performed by the citizens of the government.
This is how the network design helps in operating in a seamless manner.
 Social Inclusion: This section is mainly related with the functional process of the
connected government that will provide services exceeding the horizontal and the
vertical government services. Citizen engagement is also one of the major aspect that
will provide high benefits regarding understanding their needs. E democracy and the
social inclusion has been one of the main aspect that provides better functioning of the
government as per the consulted approach (Saha 2010).

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 Transparent and Open Government: in case of connected government the main
advantage that will be received includes the fact that the citizens will be able to check
the strategy that is imbibed by the governing body and feedback can be provided by
them. This is one of the major aspect that will provide better understanding of the
citizen needs. This is one of the major aspect that provides high benefits to the
government as well as the citizens. National security consideration is also taken into
consideration.
Figure 1: Governance with help of EIARA
(Created by: Al-Hujran et al, 2015)
In this case it can be seen that in the initial stage, assessing of the indicators before the
Devpt or deployment. In the second stage it can be seen that the accessing is performed after
the development and the deployment stage. In the third step, monitoring of the quality
attribution can be performed as per the quality attributes of the ICT/ E- Government system in
the fourth stage, attributes of the ICT/ E- Government system after the deployment process. In
the fifth stage the main concern that is present is regarding the analysis of the outcome that is
generated in compared to the before and after deployment process (Janowski 2015). After this
stage, in the sixth stage, accessing of the changes that have already taken place and the
changes in the project that has taken place is considered. In the Seventh stage the main
concern that is taken into consideration includes analysis of impacts of the deployment stage.

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This stage is mainly concerned with the measuring of the system quality attributes (Susanto and
Almunawar 2016).
The stakeholders are interconnected with the 1st stage and the functioning of the
development scaling. The stakeholders are concerned with the scale at which development
process will occur. The stakeholders are also interconnected with 2nd stage and 3rd stage.
4.0 Conclusion & Recommendations
From the above discussion it can be concluded that the functioning of the connected
government acceptance has been increasing. This is one of the major reason that proper
functioning can be performed in a manner that will provide better and efficient functioning of t
e governing body. Usage of Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture in the e
government has been the major concern of the report. This report has been focussing on the
benefits that are received due ti the usage of the EIA RA (Rose-Ackerman and Palifka 2016).
Despite the benefits that are present in the functional process of the EIA RA, there are several
disadvantages that are present in the system. Removal of the issues have been the major
concern. The amount of advantages have ben such high that despite the disadvantages the
technology is widely accepted.
Recommendation
The recommendations that must be used are as follows: -
 Implementation of research and development team must be done. The major
disadvantage that is present in the Enterprise Information Architecture Reference
Architecture is lack of innovation processing. For mitigation of this issue, a distinct
research and development team must be appointed in order to maintain the
development rate.
 Application dependency over the Reference architecture must be reduced.
 Security aspect of the database must be taken into consideration and robustness of the
infrastructure must be increased.

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