I've reviewed many of "big" EA frameworks (Zachman, MODAF, IAF, etc) and often the framework (taxonomy) is a matrix where artifacts are collected. But if we're honest, many times there are multiple architectures (people, process and information) in play within an organization. In my business, there's the architecture governs our primary business, the architecture that governs our operational organization and the architecture that governs our technology organization.
When I think about it, you can slice architectural views in 2, 3 or more dimensions. If I were to simply cut this to 3 dimensions, how difficult would it be to have EA transform the other 3 views and construct a view which is a cross section. Here's an example:
Let's take the three environments I outlined above... if I look at each of them, they'll all have a technology view (systems). My primary business has the systems that support it; my operations has systems that support monitoring, management and reporting; and my technology organization has systems to support building software. But now I'd like to look at the technology view across all three of those organizations. It seems like this would have to be a manual process unless there's a way for EA to automatically generate this.
Do I need to use automation to accomplish what I'm after?
