Trends Report

Cloud Platforms Will Turn Enterprise Architecture Inside Out

Enterprise Architects Need New Practices, And Changes To Existing Ones, For The Digital Business Era

September 1st, 2015
Craig Le Clair, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Craig Le Clair Vice President, Principal Analyst
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Henry Peyret
With contributors:
Elizabeth Cullen , Alex Cullen , Diane Lynch

Summary

Firms have adopted cloud services in an ad hoc fashion, driven by opportunity and expediency more than by strategy. Cloud use cases and the architectural decisions surrounding them are different from the on-premises world in which enterprise architect (EA) programs have grown up. EA professionals must adopt new approaches to objectives, principles, governance, deliverables, standards, and architecture to position their enterprises to take full advantage of the agility that cloud platforms can bring. This report provides a template to develop cloud architecture strategy and policy to balance agility needs and risk.

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