I will understand the scope by identifying the contexts

I will understand the business model by defining the concepts

I will understand the system model by representing the logic

I will understand the technology by specifying the physics

I will understand the component by configuring the assemblies

I will understand the operations by the instantiation of the classes

I’ve been actively pursuing what I’d like to see in an offering related to the practice of enterprise architecture. Below is a fictive offering made to the community and all other stakeholders in EA, about a great service that would cater to most of the common needs.

• What if I exposed a service to you that gave you the ability to maintain all of your EA artifacts on any meta model you like
• What if the service could visualize all the relations and even some things you haven’t thought of yet
• What if this service came with ready made samples and explanations for most concepts in EA space
• What if the service I exposed was a true in the cloud application
• What if this service was localized for your usage
• What if this service could build upon your present material by importing, converting and exporting
• What if the service I exposed was more secure to use than your present service
• What if you and your users could have a say in how the user experience of this service would feel like
• What if this service had all the features of social computing and they where built in from start
• What if this service had awesome search built in to it
• What if this service had an open API attached to it
• What if the service I exposed guaranteed a drop in EA tools licensing cost with more than 90%
• What if this service was globally available
• What if the support for this service was better than what you get at your mommas house
• What if I could guarantee delivery of all this by 2009-12-31

Would you buy in to it?

I came across a piece of software that allows you to map out relations between search results from Google and Amazon. So I decided to map out the prominent terms of the enterprise architecture field, namely “enterprise architecture”, “method”, “framework”, “tool” and “Books”.

I’ll leave it up to you to draw any conclusions from these maps.

Map of Enterprise Architecture (Using the Google tool)

Map of Enterprise Architecture and Method (Using the Google tool)

Map of Enterprise Architecture and Framework (Using the Google tool)

Map of Enterprise Architecture and Tool (Using the Google tool)

Map of Enterprise Architecture and Books (Using the Amazon tool)

The tool came from Touchgraph and I found it by reading an interesting article from Business Week.