Alignment of Business and IT / Enterprise Architecture

University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
Autumn Semester 2015

Study Programme: MSc Business Information Systems


Use of VP is made available to FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland by the Academic Partner Program from Visual Paradigm for educational purpose.

This course consists of lecture, exercises and an accompanying case study.

Literature, exercises and case study description are available for registered students at the Moodle course
(restricted access - for participants only)

Topics

  1. Introduction into Enterprise Architecture Management
  2. Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
  3. Meta-Modeling and Modeling Languages
  4. Enterprise Architecture Management
  5. Enterprise Architecture Modeling with ArchiMate
    Views and Viewpoints in ArchiMate
  6. Business Architecture
  7. Business Motivation Modeling
  8. Modeling Business Processes with BPMN
  9. Business Architecture (continued)
    Organisation Models
    Interactions
    Modeling Data, Documents, Products
  10. Business Rules
  11. Business Vocabulary
  12. Enterprise Architecture for Business-IT Alignment

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