Author:Mentz, J; Kotzé, Paula; Van der Merwe, ADate:Oct 2012The term enterprise architecture has been in use for almost thirty years if the seminal paper (published in 1987) by Zachman is taken as its starting point. As a scientific area of study this time span is relatively short but for the practitioner ...Read more
Author:Lapalme, J; Gerber, A; Van der Merwe, A; Zachman, J; De Vries, M; Hinkelmann, KDate:Jul 2015Today, and for the foreseeable future, organizations will face ever-increasing levels of complexity and uncertainty. Many believe that enterprise architecture (EA) will help organizations address such difficult terrain by guiding the design ...Read more
Author:Carroll, M; Kotzé, Paula; van der Merwe, ADate:Jun 2010Organisations are faced with a number of challenges and issues in decentralised, multiple-server, physical, non-virtualized IT environments. Virtualization in recent years has had a significant impact on computing environments and has introduced ...Read more
Author:Jacobs, D; Kotzé, Paula; Van Der Merwe, ADate:May 2009The enterprise architect is dependent on the functionality of the enterprise repository to define and maintain the enterprise architecture. Two of the specific functionalities are typical ‘warehouse’ related functionalities. The one requirement ...Read more
Author:Gerber, A; Kotzé, Paula; Van der Merwe, ADate:Jun 2010Metamodels are abstractions that are used to specify characteristics of models. Such metamodels are generally included in specifications or framework descriptions. A metamodel is for instance used to inform the generation of enterprise ...Read more