Standards for Enterprise Architectures

The manufacturing industry in Mexico has great potential for growth, especially small and medium enterprises (smes), with an area of opportunity for the integration of its key processes to information technology, through which you can provide information quickly and effectively to support strategic decision making. A methodology for the development of schemes that provide the foundation for the use of information in support of business strategy enterprise architecture is composed of partial architectures and data architecture / applications, business architecture and technology architecture. This paper presents an analysis of standards known in the scientific literature on enterprise architecture to develop a proposal for midsize companies. It also discusses open source tools for managing enterprise architecture. The results offer great expectations for sme's to implement enterprise architectures in their processes this analysis is part of a research project that seeks to design and implement enterprise architectures in sme's, the project is currently in analysis.