Software Architecture in Practice
Software Architecture in Practice
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In order to enable business agility, different architectural styles for organizing information systems, business and technology have emerged. Architecture involves top-level management, the business entities in the organization down to the grass-root level views. While the values of both Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture are emerging in industry, the IT based organizations have no clear guidance on how to use these two sets of architectural approaches together. In the same token, enterprises and architecture practitioners strongly need a reference model and guideline to legitimate, rationalize, and justify courses of action taken in their business systems architecture and design. This research work proposes a new approach referred to as Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture (SOEA) framework to address this enterprise need. SOEA framework attempts to resolve the limitations that arise when Enterprise Architecture (EA) and SOA approaches are used independently. This framework, therefore, links an SOA style with the EA process to realize and help organizations benefit from SOA effort as a key part of their Enterprise Architecture.