Enterprise Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications and Technology [Paperback]

Steven H Spewak (Author), Steven C. Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1993

About This Book Praise for Enterprise Architecture Planning-- ". the book has given me a wealth of good, fresh ideas about every facet of the architecture process . makes a substantive contribution to the body of IS planning knowledge." --John A. Zachman Zachman Information Systems Enterprise Architecture Planning is more advanced than traditional system planning approaches because you:
* define a stable business model independent of organizational boundaries, systems, and procedures,
* define data before application, and
* let data determine the sequence for implementing applications systems.
Here the authors give you a common-sense approach to Enterprise Architecture Planning. You'll find dozens of examples of architectures, procedures, checklists, and useful guidelines to support these techniques. This is the best guide available to help you ensure a cost-effective, long-term solution.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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More advanced than traditional system planning approaches, Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) outlines a stable business model independent of organizational boundaries, systems and procedures; defines data before applications; and allows data to determine the sequence for implementing application systems. This invaluable book offers a common-sense approach to EAP and includes numerous examples of architectures, procedures, checklists and useful guidelines. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Steven H. Spewak, Ph.D., and Steven C. Hill Industry veteran Steven H. Spewak, Ph.D., is Chief Architect for DHL Systems Inc. Steve Hill is a Product Manager for Logic Works in Princeton, NJ. They can be reached on CompuServe at 71521,1052 and 70262,1135, respectively. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 359 pages
• Publisher: QED Publishing Group (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894354361
• ISBN-13: 978-0894354366
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,694,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars EAP - A Management Framework, August 21, 1998

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This review is from: Enterprise Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology (Paperback)

This is an excellent book outlining the process, content and pit-falls associated with EAP (a classic for consultants and professionals). It is important to remember that it presents a management framework not an implementation framework. I look forward to the next release -I hope it includes something on object modelling and UML and the need to differentiate between functional and competency based modelling (Business Architecture) when designing enterprise information systems for the future. This book is a foundation and a "must read" for any budding Enterprise Architect.

43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource - but use with caution, February 29, 2004

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Mike Tarrani "www.tarrani.com" (Deltona, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enterprise Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology (Paperback)

I purchased this book with it was first published and it greatly influenced my thinking and has continued to do so to this day. There is a large caveat I want to share before continuing - be careful of the Zachman Framework because if you do base your enterprise architecture on it you will soon discover that making changes is a tedious process that ripples across the matrix. That said, I continue to believe in the basic concepts and components of the framework, and I also think that it is an excellent way to gain a view of an enterprise when you are attempting to model it.

Caveat aside, the techniques and many of the elements of the framework provided in this book are invaluable to creating any enterprise framework or initiating and managing a process improvement program. While Chapter 1 describes enterprise architecture planning in the context of the Zachman Framework, all of the subsequent chapters can be applied to any framework, which what makes this book as valuable today as it was a decade ago. Specifically, Chapter 3 (Planning), 5 (Enterprise Survey), 8 (Application Architecture), and 10 (Implementation Plan) are among the best of the best practices for approaching any project that is enterprise-wide in scope. For that reason I continue to keep my worn copy of this book nearby as a reference.

Despite my views on the Zachman Framework and some of its limitations and challenges, you may not have a choice - if you are on a team that is refactoring your enterprise in accordance with the Zachman Framework I recommend that you visit the Zachman Institute (see ASIN B00016NEXI) and augment the decade old material in this book with the up-to-date content available on that site.

If you are still in the exploratory stage and are considering this book because you want to learn more about either the Zachman Framework or EAP I recommend that you not only purchase this book (for the reasons cited above), but that you also read "How to Survive in the Jungle of Enterprise Architecture Framework: Creating or Choosing an Enterprise Architecture Framework" (ASIN 141201607X).

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars EAP a Requirement for Aligning IT and Your Business, June 22, 2000

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Dr. Daniel C. Ashley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Enterprise Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology (Paperback)

This is an excellent book. It presents a complete plan of how to implement a business oriented strategy planning program that will align IT with the strategies being pursued by your organization. This book does not provide all of the answers. It points out, correctly and in an easy-to-read format, that you, as an IT executive, must adapt the program presented here to your own situation.

However, the program outline is more extensive and more valuable than any I've seen before. It is also better than the program outline that I've personally seen delivered by top name consulting firms.

Coupling this book with practicle experience, and readings on both total quality management, and marketing will provide the budding planner with a successful intellectual tool set for creating an improved IT/Business alignment.

Dan Ashley, PhD [e-mail]