The History of Enterprise Architecture : An Evidence-Based Review

The conventional wisdom says that the concept of Enterprise Architecture (EA) originated from the pioneering work of John Zachman. He is frequently referred to as the “father” of EA and many consider the Zachman Framework to be the breakthrough that created the discipline of EA and provided the foundation for all subsequent EA frameworks and methodologies. Is Zachman’s “A Framework for Information Systems Architecture” really the seminal publication of the EA discipline? Is it really the first EA framework? Did it really profoundly influence modern EA methodologies? In order to answer these questions, in this article I describe an evidence-based history of EA and trace the origins of all essential ideas constituting the basis of the modern concept of EA.

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