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EITA

Enterprise Architecture (EA) versus Enterprise IT Architecture debate

August 15, 2012 by Adrian Grigoriu

After all, it is still the case today that the “company is the people” as EA describes, rather than “the company is the IT” as in EITA. But EITA delivers now, while the EA still promises.

Categories EA, EA, SOA and other technologies, EITA, Enterprise Architecture, IT-architecture

Enterprise Architecture’s Quest for its Identity

March 10, 2011 by Open Group

Is enterprise architecture primarily about IT or is it about the entire enterprise? Is enterprise architecture a “hard” discipline or a “soft” discipline? Our answers strongly influence what we believe is within the purview of enterprise archit…

Categories EA, EITA, enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, IT, professionalization, sociotechnical system

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