This institutionalized enterprise terminology offers a common architecture description language2
that bridges communication gaps between business and technology organizations and fosters the
reusability of an underlying enterprise technology.
John A. Zachman, in his article ???Enterprise Architecture: The Issue of the Century??? identi-
fied the motivation behind the establishment of architectural perspectives. He argued that multiple
views of architecture can simplify the depiction of a complex product. He writes: ???There are several
other resources, including the references cited in this article, that describe in some detail
what I learned, not only in engineering and manufacturing, but also in architecture and construction,
where the conceptual structures are identical. The building and airplane metaphors are
equally valuable, and in brief, from these older disciplines, I discovered that there is not simply
an architecture representation for a complex product. There is a set of representations. There are
representations from different perspectives or roles being played in the process of producing the
product.???3
Zachman??™s conceptual structures notion leads to the establishment of a conceptual architecture
that offers various perspectives of the current or future production environment, as illustrated
in Exhibit 15.1. These views describe the major imperatives of an organizational architecture and
identify the major stakeholders typically involved in an architectural construction.
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