Understanding the Role of Enterprise Architecture towards Better Institutionalization

In order for a software system to be more beneficial to an organization, its services should be laid out in a careful consideration of the various constituents of the organization, or the architecture of the organization. Here after enterprise architecture. A software system and the enterprise architecture then ultimately help achieve the goals that the organization has, while helping to solve some critical problems the organization might be faced with. In this paper, we present our initial understanding of the role of an enterprise architecture in relation to such goals and problems, as well as to the requirements on, and the specification of, a software system. Based on such understanding, we then present our preliminary work on how to proceed towards institutionalizing an enterprise architecture for an organization, with an emphasis on the high-level concerns that an enterprise architect should have during the process of institutionalization.