Analysis and Application Scenarios of Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory Study

Enterprise architecture (EA) gained growing importance as a key issue of information management in recent years. This paper is aimed at contributing to EA methodology by a systemization of EA analysis techniques and EA application scenarios. These findings are compared with current EA practice collected by means of an exploratory study.

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