Abstract:

Enterprise architecture (EA) is present at every company, however few organizations have their architecture formalized and manages it to meet their strategic goals. EA creates an opportunity for an effective interaction between different parts of enterprise. Moreover, EA serves as the blueprint for a company and the process which defines it. EA is about more than technology as it is also about strategy and business. All these parts must be coherent to unlock full potential of EA. This paper formulates the problem with current approach describing enterprise architecture and shows that coherent enterprise architecture description is key to viability in highly dynamic, sometimes chaotic environment. The main contribution of this paper consists in the description of the Coherent Enterprise Architecture Framework (CEAF) design that enables coherent enterprise architecture description. Conclusions made by authors, could serve as a guidance for particular framework extension with the aim to gain coherent enterprise de-scription.