Capabilities and Features: Linking Business and Application Architectures

Kamath, Suresh

doi:10.1109/icisa.2011.5772351

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“…This problem is that of linking business architecture to IT architecture in general and application architecture specifically. In our earlier work [1] , [2], and [3] we proposed Category theory as the formal language to unify the business and IT worlds with the ability to represent the concepts and relations between the two in a unified way. We used rCOS [4] as the underlying model for the specification of interfaces, contracts, and components.…”

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Linking Business and Application Architectures

Kamath

2013

Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures

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The development of an IT strategy and ensuring that it is the best possible one for business is a key problem many organizations face. This problem is that of linking business architecture to IT architecture in general and application architecture specifically. Without this linkage it is difficult to manage the changes needed by the business and maximize the benefits from the information technology (IT) investments. Linking the two domains requires defining the two architectures using a “common language.” While the application architecture domain has developed tools and processes to define and represent the architecture, the business architecture domain, however, lacks such processes and tools to be useful for linking of the two. The chapter addresses several questions dealing with the linking of the business and the application architectures. The author proposes to use category theory related constructs and notions to represent the business and information architecture and the linkages.

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