Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) deals with the assessment and development of business processes and IT landscape of an organization. Analyses are an important mean in the EAM process. They support the understanding of the architecture and evaluate the current situation as well as possible future ones. In current literature exists various different approaches to EA analyses. Each pursues different goals and utilizes different techniques. We evaluated current literature about EA analyses and identified possible categories. Therefore we define requirements for an EA analysis and utilize them for a classification of the various approaches. We propose a two-dimensional classification approach. Technical categories cluster analyses according their procedure and utilized techniques. Functional categories cluster analyses according to their goals and outcome. To validate our categorization and the analysis requirements we develop a domain specific language, which is used to formalize the existing analysis approaches from literature.
REF define requirements for an EA analysis and utilize them to classify of the various approaches in two categories: technical (according to their utilized techniques and requirements for execution) and functional (according to their goals and their provided result).
Characteristics of Enterprise Architecture Analyses
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