Today, business architecture is everywhere. So what is the definition and scope of business architecture? As a concept, business architecture is often misunderstood, over-used, under-used, or wrongly-used. Even the industry experts have differences in what is the meaning and definition of the term business architecture. Here is a summary view of various definitions for business architecture, proposed by various stakeholders.

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2. WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
What is Business Architecture: A summary of various definitions of
Business Architecture?
Today, business architecture is everywhere. So what is the definition and
scope of business architecture? As a concept, business architecture is often
misunderstood, over-used, under-used, or wrongly-used. Even the industry
experts have differences in what is the meaning and definition of the term
business architecture. Here is a summary view of various definitions for
business architecture, proposed by various stakeholders.
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3. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY OBJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP
Object Management Group defines business
architecture as follows:
"A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common
understanding of the organization and is used to align
strategic objectives and tactical demands."
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4. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY BUSINESS DICTIONARY
Business dictionary focuses on the graphical nature of
the discipline and terms business architecture as:
“Graphical representation of a business model, showing
the networks through which authority, information, and
work flows in a firm. It serves as the blueprint of a firm's
business structure, and clarifies how the firm's activities
and policies will affect its defined objectives.."
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5. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia defines the term business architecture as:
“Business architecture is a part of an enterprise
architecture related to corporate business, and the
documents and diagrams that describe the architectural
structure of that business. People who build business
architecture are known as business architects. Business
architecture is the bridge between the enterprise business
model and enterprise strategy on one side, and the
business functionality of the enterprise on the other side.”
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6. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY NICK MALIK
Nick Malik, an enterprise architect at Microsoft and a well-respected
practitioner of enterprise architecture seems frustrated with the many
and often flawed definitions of business architecture. He tries to
provide his perspectives on the definition of business architecture as:
Business Architecture -- A specialization of the Enterprise
Architecture business function that uses science and engineering to
design and implement business functional and process
improvements and strategically-aligned change initiatives.
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7. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY RALPH WHITTLE
Ralph Whittle, an enterprise architect and the author of the book
“Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link between Strategy
and Results” takes a shot at the definition of business architecture:
The Business Architecture defines the enterprise value streams and
their relationships to all external entities, other enterprise value
streams, and the events that trigger instantiation. It is a definition of
what the enterprise must produce to satisfy its customers, compete in
a market, deal with its suppliers, sustain operations, and care for its
employees.
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8. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY DEREK MIERS
The industry analyst Derek Miers at research firm Forrester
summarizes his view of the business architecture definition:
An organized and repeatable approach to describe and analyze an
organization’s business and operating models to support a wide
variety of organizational change purposes; from cost reduction and
restructuring, to process change and transformation.
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9. BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION BY MICHAEL POULIN
Michael Poulin, an enterprise architect and a trainer, postulates his
definition of business architecture as follows:
Enterprise Business Architecture is architecture that comprises
business functionality and business informational models, positions it
across business administrative and organizational enterprise
structures, and that transforms goals and objectives defined in a
business enterprise model and refined in the Strategic Business
Plans into the functional and informational definition for a corporate
business.
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