I have been realizing that Enterprise Architecture is starting to turn into the next misused IT term, rather than a catalyst for change... This blog is focused on EA and PowerDesigner, true, but i wanted to keep this in perspective that we are also trying to help our business to be successful. so in that context, i wanted to show a sample EA diagram.
This Application architecture diagram was grabbed from the PD15 beta that ended last month. Anyhow, you can see how Enterprise Architecture is bringing together Application Architecture, like UML, with more traditional Process Modeling, like BPMN. pretty cool huh?
WWWWWEEEELLLLL, what is this diagram going to HELP me with? i mean really? can i use to answer some questions?
You bet.
If Application A goes down, what business functions are affected?
What areas does Application A leverage to accomplish its job? What parts of this infrastructure can go down without interupting service?
Does a specific site or location depend on any applications functioning to be successful on daily basis?
There are lots of answers in this diagram to those questions. Maybe not complete answers visually, but there is metadata behind each image on this canvas, unlike Visio :)
Anyhow, lets look at Meta data next week, until then.
