Many organizations lack the technologies necessary to develop and maintain an accurate model of their company's business and strategy architectures. This limits their ability to prioritize demands from various business units and align IT with business goals. Business performance then suffers as a whole.

This white paper discusses the importance of alignment between business and IT objectives for effective enterprise architecture. Discover the benefits and uses of this type of architecture as well as step-by-step guidance for implementing this infrastructure. Explore a single repository designed to support enterprise architecture analysis and optimization to facilitate alignment of business and IT and improve decision making and enterprise performance. Learn how the focus of enterprise architecture has grown, necessitating the use of comprehensive modeling tools to visualize, analyze and optimize business processes, information and technologies.