Discovering the IT landscape
Any new software at a company will become part of the existing IT landscape. To understand how the individual components work together, we need to understand the structure. In general, this structure is called enterprise architecture.
The enterprise architecture itself is split up into three parts:
- Business architecture: This is the business structure from an organizational and operational perspective.
- Information architecture: This is the structure of enterprise data, including how to find and understand it.
- Technology architecture: This is the structure of supporting systems and operational aspects.
Figure 5.7 – The enterprise architecture
Now we will examine how this works at the level of sophistication required for this book. You can read more about enterprise architecture by following the references at the end of this chapter.
Business architecture
At the core of business architecture is...
