Towards a Quality Framework for Enterprise Architecture Models

While Enterprise Architecture Management is an established and widely discussed field of interest in the context of information systems research, we identify a lack of work regarding quality assessment of enterprise architecture models in general and frameworks or methods on that account in particular. By analyzing related work by dint of a literature review in a design science research setting, we provide twofold contributions. We (i) suggest an Enterprise Architecture Model Quality Framework (EAQF) and (ii) apply it to a real world scenario. Keywords—Enterprise Architecture, model quality, quality framework, EA modeling.

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