2022-17 Aragon Research Business Architecture Framework 2022

Business architecture continues to be one of the last defined components of most of the common enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks (TOGAF, Zackman, etc.). This is not a surprise since EA started as an IT discipline focused on reconciling and managing organizations’ technology-centric capabilities (e.g., information/data, applications, hardware and software infrastructure, networking, security, etc.). And in fact, still today, the most common EA framework supports business architecture as an afterthought. The challenge is that today, everything about business is also about technology, and everything about technology is also about business.