The IT Architecture process establishes and maintains an IT Architecture Description for the organization based upon an Information Technology Architecture Description Framework.

This IT Architecture establishes the current state and the future state of the IT Systems necessary to improve productivity and reduce costs to deliver products and services.

The IT Architecture is an enterprise wide architecture description that supports all of the IT requirements within the Information Technology System of Systems (SoS)

The information systems provide the automation of the business processes that are part of an organizational capability.

The processes are established and implemented first to then stabilize the ability of an information system to deliver its full benefits within a sociotechnical systems context.

• Establish and maintain the Information Technology architecture description
• Identify and appoint application owners to support business capabilities

• Business Architect.
• Information Systems Architect and team.
• Also links to:
  • Process Owner / Manager
  • Auditors

The organization design process has identified a need for a process within an identified capability and the capability team has identified that they are ready to identify information systems that support and enable the performance of the organization.

• Information System Architecture Description,
• Platform Models
• IT Applications and Systems models
• Networking Models.

Person from IT or an EA organization.

This process links to the following Best Practice, External Standards and Product Standards. Links to other processes that this process may start are also indicated.