PROACTIVE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE EVOLUTIONS

摘要

Risks from system architecture evolutions are assessed by an apparatus that comprises a database comprising a plurality of roadmaps for a corresponding plurality of components that may be used to form an enterprise architecture, the roadmaps identifying the planned characteristics of the plurality of components. The apparatus also comprises a modeling module executed by a processor to identify the components that form the enterprise architecture, to identify the current characteristics of those components, and to map those components to the roadmaps for corresponding components among the plurality of components in the database. In addition, the apparatus comprises a risk identification module executed by the processor to identify which of the components that form the enterprise architecture have current characteristics that are different from the corresponding planned characteristics.