Patent ID: 8630882

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of implementing an intelligent enterprise architecture for an enterprise, as an architectural development process defining an enterprise computing architecture within a smart computing system, the computer-implemented method comprising: selecting, by one or more computer hardware processors, a plurality of intelligent enterprise architecture entry points comprising: an intelligent enterprise architecture for cloud entry point to dynamically provision and de-provision information technology operations, to align business and technology, and to identify an impact of cloud computing services on enterprise architecture domains; an intelligent enterprise architecture for social computing entry point to enable virtual collaboration between employees, consumers, and clients of the enterprise using simulated environments, security services, location-aware services and context aware services, to manage electricity in a smart grid, to respond to user health alerts, and to address data cohabitation security threats; an intelligent enterprise architecture for green and beyond entry point that saves energy, optimizes water use and reduces carbon emissions by virtualizing hardware appliances, establishing consumption patterns, consolidating network switches and sensing electrical leakages; and an intelligent enterprise architecture for information intelligence entry point for collecting and federating digital information from internal and external sources to include social media feeds and user-generated content and for discovering patterns, relationships, and insights into events to enable decision making by the intelligent enterprise architecture; associating, by one or more computer hardware processors, one or more business drivers for pain points in the enterprise with the selected plurality of intelligent enterprise architecture entry points, using a business value model to focus a scope of the business drivers for the selected intelligent enterprise architecture entry points, the business value model generated by reviewing a component business model of activities performed within the enterprise and capturing detailed information about the business drivers describing one or more adversities that are expected for the enterprise if an existing enterprise architecture for the enterprise remains unchanged; defining, by one or more computer hardware processors, the intelligent enterprise architecture that satisfies the associated business drivers to ameliorate the pain points in the enterprise; and implementing, by one or more computer hardware processors, the intelligent enterprise architecture as a software simulation or a physical system.