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Safety enterprise architecture approach for a railway safety management system
Published in Stein Haugen, Anne Barros, Coen van Gulijk, Trond Kongsvik, Jan Erik Vinnem, Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World, 2018
Zachman framework is the most comprehensive of the EA frameworks which offer a series of views and visualization support as a planning tool to help better selections between the alternative options. However, it does not focus on the EA development and governance mechanism. It also could not provide appropriate software tools configuration and alignment to the innovation and new social realities. The framework does not explicitly offer support for nonfunctional requirements and system development lifecycle. The Zachman framework, although self-described as a framework, is more accurately defined as a taxonomy for organizing architectural artifacts.
Enterprise Architecture
Published in Vivek Kale, Enterprise Process Management Systems, 2018
The framework defines prestructured views and layers to represent an information technology (IT) enterprise. Unlike similar frameworks that often contain process models, the Zachman Framework does not prescribe any process or methodology. It focuses on the roles involved and assigns them to objects that shall be viewed from different perspectives. The Zachman Framework thereby provides a comprehensive tool to consider all relevant aspects, from all perspectives, while designing and developing an enterprise IT architecture.
Architecture and Design
Published in Nikhilesh Krishnamurthy, Amitabh Saran, Building Software, 2007
Nikhilesh Krishnamurthy, Amitabh Saran
The Zachman framework is a logical structure intended to provide a comprehensive representation of an IT (information technology) enterprise. The framework uses a 36-cell table with six rows (Scope, Business Model, System Model, Technology Model, Detailed Representation, and Functional System) and six columns (What, How, Where, Who, When, and Why) to define rules for managing such enterprises.
Smart city data architecture for energy prosumption in municipalities: concepts, requirements, and future directions
Published in International Journal of Green Energy, 2020
The Zachman framework was presented by J. A. Zachman and it focuses on developing views rather than based on a methodology or process for the management of organizations (Zachman 1999). The Zachman framework was deployed based on a six-by-six matrix which comprises of what, how, when, who, where, and why as columns whereas the rows in the matrix entails six trans-formational views, which become more concrete and granular as one navigates downward from the views, which describes the actions which includes representation, identification, definition, configuration, specification, and instantiation (McGinley and Nakata 2015). Besides, in the Zachman framework each of the columns values represents a descriptive architectural model, which includes people, network, motivation, data, function, and time. Similarly, the rows denote the perspectives of the system, but not the perspectives of stakeholders. Thus, the Zachman framework is not a multi-dimensional stakeholder-based model that can explore the uncertainty, complexity, and normativity of societal problems such as energy prosumption in smart city. Therefore, the Zachman framework is not suitable as a base for the community architecture framework for the diverse stakeholders in smart cities (McGinley and Nakata 2015).
What are the implications of theorizing the enterprise architecture?
Published in Journal of Enterprise Transformation, 2018
The Zachman Framework was developed by John Zachman and first introduced in the 1980s. This framework was initially intended for information systems (ISs) modeling. The framework provides an organization with the mechanisms to mitigate against the complexities of the IS artifacts, from EA viewpoint, by strongly advocating the importance of human involvement. Over the years, the Zachman Framework has proved to be efficient in the crafting of the IS activities, because it allows an identification of the key stakeholders’ area of interest, their involvement in the processes including information needs of the stakeholders (Lapalme et al., 2016). Tang et al. (2004) also highlighted some points where the framework is capable of incorporating different EA’s analysis and modeling techniques, as well as the perspectives of the key stakeholders in the deployment of the EA.
Development of an evaluation framework of production planning for the shipbuilding industry
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2018
Jong Moo Lee, Yong-Kuk Jeong, Jong Hun Woo
This study proposes a framework for establishing an evaluation system of production planning in a shipyard. Our evaluation framework of ship production planning is developed based on the Zachman framework, which is usually implemented at the stage of architecture concept design of the enterprise architecture framework (Zachman 1987). The Zachman framework is a logical structure or architecture proposed to integrate the components of an enterprise information system. This framework suggests ways to analyse an enterprise according to its perspectives and focuses. A unit cell can be defined by a combination of a perspective and a focus, and necessary components can be identified using the unit cell. This enables the classification of the evaluation measure into a production planning stage and a production planning perspective to present key information necessary for the evaluation of production planning and a detailed method to pick out such information.