How to Simplify Your Enterprise Architecture in 10 Easy Steps
posted by Anna Mar, June 23, 2011The brief history of IT architecture is the story of encapsulation. Whether it is enterprise, application or technology architecture — it is all about reducing the complex to the simple.
These 10 common Enterprise Architecture patterns hide implementation details behind contracts — transforming a complex enterprise to a simple collection of boxes.
1. The Cloud
Infrastructure is a complex jumble of technology that can thought of as a cloud that provides a number of services.The performance of cloud services can be measured with metrics and guaranteed with SLAs.
2. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SOA is a excellent way to build a set of enterprise level services that hide implementation complexity.3. Data Warehouse (DW)
Hides the complexity of data integration for decision support (exposed via a enterprise data dictionary).4. Operational Data Store (ODS)
Hides the complexity of data integration for operations.5. ESB
ESB simplifies messaging with a publish-subscribe model.6. ERP
Provides a unified application / data model that hides the complexity of integration with legacy applications.7. Portal
Provides a single point of access for enterprise services.8. Unified Communications
Single tool for communications and collaboration.9. Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
A single repository of content and documents.10. Dashboard
A snapshot view of enterprise metrics.Recently on Simplicable
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