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title: Enterprise Architecture
description: Enterprise architecture is the practice of aligning an organization's business strategy with its IT infrastructure and software systems. You will understand how to design, analyze, and govern large-scale systems to support long-term business goals.
category: programming-tech
subcategory: software-architecture
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
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# Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture is the practice of aligning an organization's business strategy with its IT infrastructure and software systems. You will understand how to design, analyze, and govern large-scale systems to support long-term business goals.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. InfoQ Enterprise Architecture

InfoQ's architecture topic hub collecting news, long-form articles, QCon conference talks and practitioner podcasts on system design, platform engineering, cloud and data architecture. Useful for following how working architects at large organisations reason about current design trade-offs.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.infoq.com/enterprise-architecture/

**Tags:** enterprise-architecture, software-architecture, system-design, platform-engineering, cloud-architecture

### 2. Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence

Free resources, frameworks, and case studies recommended in Reddit threads

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.eacoe.org/

### 3. opengroup.org/togaf

Official resource for TOGAF, The Open Group's enterprise architecture framework. It provides an overview of the TOGAF standard, its components (ADM, artifacts, reference models), certification and training information, and access to white papers, case studies, and implementation guidance.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://opengroup.org/togaf

**Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, software-architecture

## Books

### 1. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy

**Author:** Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, David C. Robertson

Based on MIT Sloan CISR research, this book argues that a firm's operating model should drive its IT investments. Readers learn to define an operating model, build a foundation for execution, and progress through four stages of architecture maturity.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591398398?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, software-architecture

### 2. The Practice of Enterprise Architecture

**Author:** Svyatoslav Kotusev

An empirically grounded account of how enterprise architecture is actually practiced in organizations, based on case studies rather than frameworks like TOGAF. Explains the main types of EA artifacts, the processes that use them, and how architects work with business stakeholders.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0648309827?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, software-architecture

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