Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework: A Model Driven Approach

摘要

Many organizations are interested in building their enterprise architectures using the Zachmanframework. They hope to solve the problems of misalignment between business processes and information systems along with gaining a desired level of interoperability and flexibility in their IT environment. However, in most cases the Zachmanframework remains as a conceptual framework more than a pragmatic one. This causes a serious doubt as to whether the enterprise could satisfy the motivations of employing the Zachman framework. Model driven architecture (MDA) is addressed in this paper as a framework, which is in a very high synch with the Zachmanframework. MDA provides a means of flexible reusable model-driven development environment that is being applied in more and more situations everyday. It is also based on commonplace technologies, which makes it popular amongst software engineers and IT specialists. In this paper, we show that MDA could be the key that opens the world of reality to the Zachmanframework. Not only does MDA have everything the Zachmanframework needs to be practical, but it also follows the same logical structure and very similar metadata language as the Zachmanframework.