A new approach for collaborative Enterprise Architecture development

Abstract

One of the challenges of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in large companies is organizing processes of baseline EA development and change management under conditions of steady change that are introduced by implemented and changed IT solutions. The research paper describes a new approach of developing and keeping relevant baseline EA description together with IT project teams using Solution Architecture models. The approach is in the process of implementation in one of the leading Russian oil and gas companies Surgutneftegas.