US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework

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The US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework ( FEAF ) provides primarily a procedural model for the development of an enterprise architecture . It also describes an architectural approach. It belongs to the group of Government and Agency Frameworks and is one of over fifty frameworks on the market.

development

The framework was developed by the American CIO Council (the American official Chief Information Officers ) and was published in 1999.

construction

Three main elements make up the content of the FEAF:

  1. The FEAF provides an architecture approach consisting of business , data , applications and technology architecture .
  2. The FEAF fills the top rows of the What , How and Where columns of the Zachman Framework matrix .
  3. The FEAF provides a procedural model for developing and updating an architecture description. This is defined in four steps: Consider stakeholders, define strategy, describe current and future architecture status.

application

The FEAF is used in the US federal agencies. It is based on parts of the Zachman Framework. But it is also the basis for other frameworks, for example for the framework of the National Institutes of Health .

literature

  • Dirk Matthes: Enterprise Architecture Frameworks Compendium: Over 50 frameworks for IT management . 2011th edition. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-12954-4 , pp. 51 (More than fifty frameworks for IT management are briefly presented in their respective uses. Then Matthes describes in detail more than thirty frameworks available on the market. The focus is on the presentation of the respective framework metamodels with the architecture and procedural reference models offered therein .).

Web links

  • The US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework as one of over fifty EAFs within the Framework Map (PDF; 504 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Matthes: Enterprise Architecture Frameworks Compendium: Over 50 frameworks for IT management . 2011th edition. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-12954-4 , pp. 40 .
  2. ↑ a b Dirk Matthes: Enterprise Architecture Frameworks Compendium: Over 50 frameworks for IT management . 2011th edition. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-12954-4 , pp. 128 .
  3. ↑ Dirk Matthes: Enterprise Architecture Frameworks Compendium: Over 50 frameworks for IT management . 2011th edition. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-12954-4 , pp. 129 .