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== The Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Trend ==
Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture should be an integrated part of the enterprise modelling, engineering and architecture concepts. There are multiple benefits and different ways to combine the disciplines to create the needed business transformation and innovation that could achieve the quality and longevity for enterprises.

The key distinction for Business Architecture as a discipline is added focus on flexible and dynamic process design, process orchestration and automation through architectural enablement. In addition to reduced costs through continuous improvement and automation, Business Architecture also provides the foundation for converged and agile business and IT responsiveness and is the key to applying the principles.

The success of interlinking Business Architecture with EA derives from the proper coordination between planning and execution of the overlapping principles in the approaches. This, in turn, requires a company's understanding of the EA and process lifecycles of the enterprise and the establishment of appropriate collaboration between EA and Business Architecture governance approaches to ensure interlinking of the described approaches.

Whereas Value Management, Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture each have value on their own, we have described how they are naturally synergetic and work best when used together for better business performance and value outcomes and strategic alignment of business and IT. When these approaches are used together, performance drivers and operational excellence and thereby possible improvement areas are provided by the Business Architecture context that outlines where to change the input-output model and provides an understanding of where to create the value and how and where to measure performance.

Business Architecture provides the design principles for solution transformation, and the rest of EA provides the discipline for translating business vision and strategy into architectural change. Although governance principles can apply the needed standards and rules, all are required for sustainable continuous improvement, optimization, and innovation. It is important to realize the value of direct collaboration across the described boundaries. Only when supported by appropriate collaboration and governance processes can Business Architecture and EA roles work effectively together toward the common goals of the enterprise.

The key to business-IT alignment and what glues it all together is the processes and activities. The notion of having business process optimization and integration of approaches has been around very long. Yet around the same time that EA and governance became a mainstream topic in the context of business and IT alignment, the focus in many process optimization communities shifted subtly to Business Architecture to go beyond an optimization approach.

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