QUESTION:

1. What are EA components and how do they relate to a framework? 2. What are EA artifacts and how do they relate to EA components?

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While an EA framework provides an overall structure for modeling the enterprise's business and technology operating environment, EA components are the working elements of the framework at each level. In other words, EA components are "building blocks that create discrete parts of the overall IT operational capability. EA artifacts describe EA components. Home Architecture Analogy EA components are like the rooms of the house. Rooms can be added, remodeled, or taken away. EA documentation products are the description of each room. And can include statements, stories, pictures and/or videos. EA components are the active elements of the enterprise's business and technology operating environment. EA components include IT-related strategic goals and initiatives, supply chains, information system, software applications, knowledge warehouses, databases, websites, and voice/data/video networks and the security solutions. These EA components should function together to create a robust and seamless IT operating environment that effectively supports the enterprise's business needs. EA artifacts are types of documentation that describe components including reports, diagrams, charts, spreadsheets, video files and other types of recorded information. High-level EA Artifacts are often text documents or diagrams that describe overall strategies, programs and desired outcomes. Mid-level EA Artifacts are documents, diagrams, charts, spreadsheets and briefings that describe organizational processes, ongoing projects, supply chains, large systems, information flows, networks and web sites. Low-level EA Artifacts describe specific applications, data dictionaries, technical standards, interfaces, network components, and cable plans. When these EA artifacts are harmonized, new and more useful views of the functioning of EA components are generated. This is one of the greatest values of EA as a documentation process, which is the creation of the ability to see a hierarchy of views of the enterprise that can be examined from several perspectives