Examining the practice of enterprise architecture in Universiti Utara Malaysia: A case study

• Main Authors: Abd Razak, Rafidah, Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi, Sibsi, Mohamed Nasir
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/11119/1/PG100_103.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/11119/; http://www.kmice.uum.edu.my

Knowledge on organization current and future capabilities is an important ingredient to enable organization to effectively implementing new technologies in response to changing mission needs.Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an area within Information Management that deals with the alignment of information technology and business in an organization.It provides a strategic approach for enabling better strategies for organization to be more effective with its processes and resources. This paper presents the findings on a study of the practice of EA in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).The paper provides insights into EA activities in an organization.It embarks on the following objectives:(1) to assess EA activities in UUM; and (2) to evaluate the implementation of EA in UUM. In the study, we observed the following issues: (1) Business Architecture; (2) Information Architecture; (3) Application Architecture; and (4) Technology Architecture.The contribution of this paper is in the discovery of knowledge on EA activities in UUM which can be used by others in order to enable better implementations of EA.