Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Enterprise Architecture: Challenges and Implementation

Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the process of developing enterprise Information Technology architecture – both its description and its implementation. An EA description focuses on a holistic and integrated view of the why, where, and who uses IT systems and how and what they are used for within an organization. An enterprise architect (and his/her team) develops the strategy and enables the decisions for designing, developing, and deploying IT systems to support the business operations as well as to assess, select, and integrate the technology into the organization’s infrastructure. Alignment between business and IT has remained one of the top three issues for CIOs and IS managers for several years as reported by CIO magazine. An EA implementation focuses on remediating, renovating, or replacing IT systems in compliance with the EA description to achieve the proposed benefits.


Papers will be solicited in several areas – leading to possibly two or three papers per session:

• Architectural Frameworks and Theory

• Architecting Methodologies and Practices

• Tools and Techniques Supporting Architecting

• Service-Oriented Architectures (including Web Services)

• System versus Software Architectures

• Addressing EA Challenges

• Integration of EA with IT Governance and SOA

• Surveys and Case Studies
   

Minitrack Co-chairs:

Frank Armour (Primary Contact)
School of Information Technology and Engineering
George Mason University
22929 Golden Plover Place
Brambleton, VA 20148
Email: farmour@gmu.edu, frank.armour@att.net

Stephen Kaisler
Logos Technologies, Inc.
3811 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203
Email: skaisler1@comcast.net

Edwin Huizinga
US Architect of the Capitol
Ford Office Building
2nd and D Streets SW
Washington, DC 20515
Email: edwin.huizinga@gmail.com