Enterprise Architecture Patterns: Practical Solutions for Recurring IT-Architecture Problems

by Thierry Perroud, Reto Inversini

Every enterprise architect faces similar problems when designing and governing the enterprise architecture of a medium to large enterprise. Design patterns are a well-established concept in software engineering, used to define universally applicable solution schemes. By applying this approach to enterprise architectures, recurring problems in the design and implementation of enterprise architectures can be solved over all layers, from the business layer to the application and data layer down to the technology layer.



Inversini and Perroud describe patterns at the level of enterprise architecture, which they refer to as Enterprise Architecture Patterns. These patterns are motivated by recurring problems originating from both the business and the underlying application, or from data and technology architectures of an enterprise such as identity and access management or integration needs. The Enterprise Architecture Patterns help in planning the technological and organizational landscape of an enterprise and its information technology, and are easily embedded into frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman or FEA.



This book is aimed at enterprise architects, software architects, project leaders, business consultants and everyone concerned with questions of IT and enterprise architecture and provides them with a comprehensive catalogue of ready-to-use patterns as well as an extensive theoretical framework to define their own new patterns.

338 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 19, 2013

Reviews

[Anjar Priandoyo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part 1 is very good, it explains what is patterns, why it is important and how people around the world see the pattern (from TOGAF, Zachman point of view). There are 13 patterns that describe in this book from business, support and technology pattern. With this example, it is easy to understand what is a pattern. Part 2 is more about a detailed description of those 13 patterns.

[Linas Jakaitis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have anticipated a bit different content from this book. Patterns are usable but will require introducing new process/terminology which is very hard to implement in the bigger enterprise.
A book that requires another read to materialise information fully.