Understanding Enterprise Architecture

This course is a comprehensive introduction to enterprise architecture. It will arm you with a solid understanding of the fundamentals as well as provide a good exposure to contemporary thinking and practices in this subject area.

This course introduces the context, relevance, and benefits of enterprise architecture (EA) within medium to large enterprises. It describes the influence EA practice plays on strategy formulation and execution. The course then provides an overview of the role played by EA frameworks and what some of most popular EA frameworks in the industry offer. The course then goes on to describe the key pillars of enterprise architecture, i.e. business, applications, information, and technology architecture domains. It also covers other specialized architecture disciplines within the enterprise, such as security, cloud, big data, and enterprise social technologies. We then discuss an overview of the various roles and responsibilities within the enterprise architecture practice, thereby offering insights to aspiring developers and IT professionals about the knowledge and skills required to successfully transition to various architecture roles within the enterprise. The course concludes by providing a view of the future direction the enterprise architecture discipline is taking and how the adoption of enterprise agility will evolve the EA practice.

• Introducing Enterprise Architecture 25mins
• Enterprise Architecture Frameworks 18mins
• Business Architecture 25mins
• Applications Architecture 29mins
• Enterprise Information Architecture 17mins
• Infrastructure Architecture 33mins
• Other Enterprise Architecture Domains 22mins
• Architect Roles in Enterprise 31mins
• Agile and Enterprise Architecture 41mins