EA Web Links

Links to sections below:

EA Social Networking Portal - In an attempt to help our EA community communicate better, FEAC™ has scrubbed the major social networking sites and provides this new page of links to some of the hundreds of these groups. We applied the criteria of groups must have activity, significant membership and direct relevance to EA practice and/or profession. Also no groups representing actual EA businesses or products and services are listed. Any group not listed did not meet one or more of these criterion.

New Articles about EA

“Q&A: Randy Hite on the new GAO EA maturity framework” FierceGovernmentIT. Copyright 2010 FierceGovernmentIT

“THE RISING IMPORTANCE OF THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT” CIO Magazine. Copyright 2009 CXO Media Inc

Enterprise Architecture Links

• Zachman International
• NEW – Association of Global Enterprise Architects (AOGEA)
• 2008 e-Gov EA Conference Event Materials – Downloads
• 2007 e-Gov EA Conference Event Materials – Downloads
• Bredemeyer Consulting EA Links Page
• CIO Council
• DM Review Article by Zachman – 4/28/00
• DM Review Article by Zachman – 12/01/99
• DM Review Article by Zachman – 9/01/98
• Federal e-Gov procurement info – Acquisition Central
• bNet Thinktank EA articles
• Government Knowledge Repository link
• FEA Reference Models – The Whitehouse **
• CIO Council EA documents archive
• GAO Reports – search page
• A Practical Guide to Federal EA – CIO Council Feb 2001 (pdf format)
• GAO Report on Enterprise Architecture Use in Federal Government Feb 2002 (pdf format)
• International Enterprise Architecture Center (good Enterprise Architecture site; but dated)
• Interoperability Clearinghouse’s (ICH) IAC whitepapers on EA
• GARTNER
• MS Enterprise Architecture Overview
• National Defense University EA Program info
• Industry Advisory Council (IAC)
• Cutter Consortium’s Enterprise Architecture Executive Report series
• Cutter Consortium’s June 2005 Enterprise Architecture Executive Report
• Enterprise-Wide Information Technology Architecture (EWITA)
• Global Enterprise Architecture Organization
• The International Enterprise Architecture Center Knowledge Library
• Bredemeyer’s Architect Competency Framework
• Architecture Plus June 11th 2009 Presentations
  • Considerations of Culture, Structure, and Business Context in an EA Program by Dr. Baldeu Singh
  • Doing EA Well at the World Bank
  • The Role of EA in DoD’s Business Transformation by Paul Ketrick
    

Enterprise Archictecture Frameworks and Related Standards

• Zachman Framework
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
• Download DoDAF 2.0 (Zipped)
• Wikipedia on DoDAF
• MODAF1.2
• Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
• OMG Standards
  • DoD/MOD position statement regarding UPDM
  • Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®)
    An approach to software development that focuses effort on the development of models rather than detailed, platform-specific code which can be generated (with automated assistance) when needed.
  • Meta Object Facility (MOF™)
    OMG’s core standard for the definition and management of models: it is the basis of all the other modeling standards including UML and CWM.
  • XML Metadata Interchange (XMI®)
    OMG’s core XML-based standard for the interchange of models.
  • Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM™)
    CWM, in addition to data warehousing, addresses all aspects of the design and management of information resources.
  • Unified Modeling Language™ (UML™)
    UML is the very widely used standard for modeling of all aspects of systems – from process down to object interactions.
  • Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC)
    Adaptive ITPM™ ships with support for the Collaborating Component Architecture (CCA) chapter of EDOC 1.0.
  • Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
    This Request For Proposals promises to do for process modeling what UML did for system modeling: provide a single core representation of process models which can be mapped down to execution languages (e.g. BPEL4WS) and can represent different process notations (e.g. BPMN).

EA at Federal Agencies

• OMB e-Gov Federal Enterprise Architecture site
• Agriculture Dept
• Bureau of Land Management
• Centers for Disease Control
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Data.gov (NEW)
• Recovery.Gov (NEW)
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Commerce  - NOAA
• Education Dept – Federal Student Aid – CIO Library (scroll down for Architecture Documents)
• Department of Energy (DOE) CIO
  • Information Architecture, Foundations, Volume I, March1995
  • Information Architecture, Baseline Analysis Summary, Volume II , December 1996
  • Information Architecture, Guidance, Volume III, April 1997
  • Information Architecture, Vision, Volume IV, March 1998
• DOE I-Manage Program site
• Housing and Urban Development
• Department of Interior
• Department of Labor
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) EA
• Department of Veterans Affairs

DoD Enterprise Architecture

• DoD Architecture Framework V1.5 (Currently Approved Version)
• AFCEA International (organization)
• Download DoD AF Version Volume 1, 2, 3 Deskbook
• DISA Defense Information Systems Agency
• DoD Enterprise Solutions Competency Center
• DoD CIO EA Homepage
• DoD Business Transformation Agency (BTA)
• DoDAF 2.0
• DISA IT Latest Vision Document

General Federal

• EGov/FEAC™ Institute Enterprise Architecture Conference
• CIO Council
• Chief Financial Officers Council
• USA.gov
• GSA Technology Strategy Overview
• Latest from the CIO Council
• Whitehouse (OMB)
• Geospatial Enterprise Architecture Initiative
• Next Generation Air Traffic System EA Approach (FAA and other Agencies)

Federal Guidance

• Improving Agency Performance Using Information and Information Technology (EA Assessment Framework v3.1)
• Federal Transition Framework (FTF)
• Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM)
• Enterprise Architecture Segment Report (EASR) and Template
• Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (PGFSOA)
• CIO Council “What Every CIO Needs to Know About Metadata”
• CIO Council “Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998”
• CIO Council – Information Technology Management Reform Act (Clinger/Cohen Act)
• CIO Council – Memorandum For The Heads Of Executive Departments and Agencies, SUBJECT: Information Technology Architectures
• CIO Council Building Better Business Cases (powerpoint format)

General State and Local

• National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)

State Enterprise Architecture Sites/Plans

EA International Web sites

• IRM UK Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference in the UK
• Clive Finkelstein’s site in Australia (great resource)
• Institute for Enterprise Architecture Developments in Holland (great site)
• PCAS Enterprise Architecture Australian Site
• Canadian Government Federated Architecture Website
• Dutch ArchiMate Resource Tree
• Dutch Architectura Site (some papers and blogs)
• MODAF 1.2
• Website for MODAF Users and Implementers

EA Glossary Web sites

• Bridgefield Group ERP/Supply chain Glossary (consulting firm)
• Business Term Glossary
• Carnegie Mellon SEI Software Technology Review Glossary
• Decision Support Systems Glossary
• Delphi Group’s Knowledge Management Glossary
• Intervista Institute’s Glossary for Knowledge-based Organizations
• Wizdom Systems Glossary of Terms

EAAF

• Enterprise Architecture Assessment Frame work (EAAF) Template

EA Magazines/Blogs

• AFCEA International
• Architecture & Governance
• BP Trends
• CIO
• Computerworld
• Cross Talk – Journal of Defense Software Engineering
• EA Journal
• eWEEK
• Federal Computer Week
• Government Computer News
• Information Week
• Intelligent Enterprise
• Evolve – EA Blog (formerly shared insights -EA Network)
• Software Development Times
• Washington Technology

EA Tool Vendors

• Avolution – Abacus
• Adaptive
• Alfabet
• Casewise
• Enterprise Elements
• IDS Scheer
• Igrafx
• In2uitive
• IT Planning
• Troux (used to be Metis)
• Mega International
• Telelogic Software (used to be Popkin)
• Metastorm
• Sparx Systems
• Volere
• Wizdom Systems Inc.