Enterprise Architecture is no longer the only function of IT, secluded from the rest of the company. Today, it has evolved – it is a bridge between IT and the business. It provides businesses with an extensive overview of their technological roadmap.
Enterprise architecture (EA) has helped businesses for decades. The business world today recognizes its benefits. New standards and tools have changed how enterprise architects conduct their job. Furthermore, new certifications have changed how workers become enterprise architects.
According to 2020 Gartner research, 76% of organizations are either starting, restarting, or renewing their EA practices. This shows that there has been an acceleration in the adoption of EA in recent times. The current need to digitally transform and address the COVID-19 crisis is bringing new meaning to how businesses perform it.
Let’s take a look at the five key benefits of having enterprise architecture.
Most businesses function as a mesh of systems and other components, hence, shying away from dealing with this complexity is not an option. EA helps businesses adopt an outcome-focused, proactive approach. With the selection of the right tools, principles, and standards, it promotes the standardization and automation of processes.
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This results in an enterprise-wide transformation with tech need aligning perfectly with business needs, promoting strategic changes and improvements. Data-driven businesses that depend on technology can benefit the most from EA.
EA helps organizations with more effective resource allocation and also allows them to achieve significant savings. EA decreases and consolidates maintenance, management and operational costs. It also helps eliminate redundancies and duplication.
This helps businesses enhance overall product quality and boost stability while leveraging shared capabilities. Furthermore, many businesses have also achieved faster time to market with EA.
All of this leads to overall profitability and elevated ROI. Organizations can maintain a steady pace of growth and manage integration projects without any fuss.
EA promotes a higher level of IT standardization. It enables decision-makers to create robust operational and business models. Most of them help to shift away from silo-based systems.
Moreover, when done right, enterprise architecture can help keep all the employees on the same page. It becomes easier to handle multiple business units and networks. EA also provides businesses with an opportunity to maintain optimal operability and productivity. It unites applications and services without friction and expands their portability.
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EA is extremely valuable when it comes to tech transformation, innovation, and smooth stack implementation. With higher agility, organizations can respond to sudden changes in the market and the industry. Organizations make educated adjustments by properly analyzing the impact of change.
EA plays a major role in addressing serious cybersecurity concerns of today. It helps with data protection and security functions in general.
With EA organizations have a real fighting chance against security threats that lurk all around. EA can also help address risks that stem from internal IT missteps like redundant applications and shadow IT. EA holds the key to grouping, protecting, and making better use of the assets.
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Prangya Pandab is an Associate Editor with OnDot Media. She is a seasoned journalist with almost seven years of experience in the business news sector. Before joining ODM, she was a journalist with CNBC-TV18 for four years. She also had a brief stint with an infrastructure finance company working for their communications and branding vertical.
