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2022 | Book

Introducing Enterprise Architecture Read chapter Read first chapter

SAP Enterprise Architecture

A Blueprint for Executing Digital Transformation

Author: Sheunopa Chalmers Musukutwa

Publisher: Apress

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

Does digital transformation ever stop? The answer is a resounding “no" and this book guides you in developing an SAP enterprise architecture that prepares you for constant technology changes.

The book introduces enterprise architecture, the role it plays in executing successful business strategy, and its application in SAP. A detailed step-by-step guide teaches you how to utilize SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer to model the four key areas: business, data, landscape, and requirements. Executives will gain insight into the considerations that will aid them in building their digital transformation road map while remaining agile to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. and adapting to the new normal. SAP partners and consultants will find their place in SAP’s future.

By the end of this book, you will learn what SAP enterprise architecture is and how to develop it along with its best practices.

You Will UnderstandThe fundamentals of enterprise architectureSAP enterprise architectureHow SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer helps your enterpriseBusiness, information, and infrastructure architecture Enterprise architecture best practicesHow enterprise architecture can prepare your business for the future

Who This Book Is For

Executives who currently run SAP implementations or are considering SAP implementations, SAP partners and consultants along with aspiring SAP consultants, and technology enthusiasts interested in understanding and articulating IT and business alignment through enterprise architecture

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introducing Enterprise Architecture
Abstract
The business ecosystem has become more and more complicated over time. Over the years, change has continued to be a constant, and businesses have increased in agility in order to better equip themselves for survival. Change in the business environment has generally come in the following forms:
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Chapter 2. Strategic Enterprise Architecture
Abstract
Enterprise Architecture is by definition a business-driven endeavor that allows the business to identify and utilize the technology that best complements the operating model today and in the future. EA's main objective, which is also an advantage of EA, is enabling businesses to achieve strategic objectives through alignment of strategy and IT capabilities. This chapter aims to demonstrate how a clear and well-defined business strategy is the first step in achieving that alignment.
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Chapter 3. Developing an Enterprise Architecture
Abstract
Before diving into the fundamental steps of developing an Enterprise Architecture, let’s briefly recap what an Enterprise Architecture is and why it is important for an enterprise to develop one. An architecture represents a collection of elements and how they relate to each other. Examples of architectures include business architectures, software architectures, hardware architectures, and network architectures. A hardware architecture will contain all of the hardware that hosts and supports the software applications utilized by the enterprise in its business operations.
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Chapter 4. Enterprise Architecture and SAP
Abstract
Thus far, we have established that there are various frameworks, including the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework, that can be used to govern EnterpriseAarchitecture. These frameworks have risen to prominence because
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Chapter 5. Developing Business Architecture Using SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer
Abstract
In the opening chapter of this book, we highlighted that one of the aspects that makes Enterprise Architecture unique is that it is both the process and the output, the journey and the destination. Business Architecture includes both the description of the structure of an organization and the design process undertaken to describe the organization. It forms the foundation of every other domain architecture, namely, the data, application, and technology architecture. Similar to all other forms of architecture, the foundation is the most critical area to get right.
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Chapter 6. Developing Information Architecture Using SAP EAD
Abstract
Defining business processes and capabilities by developing a business architecture helps articulate what data services, data sources, and data types are required to support those business processes and capabilities. Knowing which business functions utilize information; where data is created, consumed, and stored; and which technology components store and manipulate the information is crucial to achieving business objectives.
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Chapter 7. Developing Infrastructure Architecture Using SAP EAD
Abstract
Infrastructure Architecture refers to the underlying infrastructure required to run the business. It describes the logical software and hardware capabilities that are required to support the deployment of business, data, and application services. This chapter explores how SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer helps enables you to document, analyze, and visualize your enterprise’s system landscape.
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Chapter 8. Enterprise Architecture Best Practices
Abstract
Enterprise Architecture is a unique discipline whose origins are still a matter of debate. Many authors routinely bestow that honor on John Zachman’s “Zachman Framework” and believe it laid the foundation for EA as a discipline. However, researchers like Svyatoslav Kotusev claim that the origins of EA precede the Zachman Framework and that EA is a product of IBM’s Business Systems Planning (BSP) (Kotusev, 1986). If the origins of a discipline are not clear, there may be a lack of consensus on what it actually is. This has plagued EA over the years. There isn’t a universal definition for it. This being the case, one can easily argue that there is consequently no basis for determining how best to practice said discipline.
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Chapter 9. The Future Of Enterprise Architecture
Abstract
Enterprise Architecture was initially introduced as a way of understanding and managing a business’s technological assets. Businesses wanted a detailed picture of their system landscape and to know how its technological assets supported its business processes. Enterprise architects were required to paint this picture through modelling the existing architecture. Hence, Enterprise Architecture was mainly driven by the internal requirements and processes of a business. That has since changed dramatically as businesses have become more customer oriented.
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
SAP Enterprise Architecture
Author
Sheunopa Chalmers Musukutwa
Copyright Year
2022
Publisher
Apress
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4842-8575-6
Print ISBN
978-1-4842-8574-9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8575-6