In recent years, the importance of enterprise architecture (EA) for companies has grown steadily. Moreover, the significance of EA Management (EAM) seems to be increasing proportionally to the size of an enterprise. So that large companies operating in different product fields, countries, and continents are forced to spend much time, effort, and funds to reduce the IT infrastructure complexity and thus ensure the optimal support for their critical business processes. EAM faces thus the challenge of managing the IT efficiently on the one hand and implementing business requirements effectively on the other hand.
The focus of this thesis is the EAM function at a German automobile manufacturing group. This company is an internationally operating enterprise maintaining a large family of vehicle brands. Due to the worldwide activities, the company faces numerous challenges in the EAM area, as for example, establishing unified architecture standards and ensuring global information consistency. Within the scope of this thesis, an approach of Building Blocks for Enterprise Architecture Management Solutions (BEAMS) is applied to evaluate the EAM function of the given company and provide potential improvement strategies.
There are no subpages or files.