This assessment is designed to assess develop your skills in Enterprise Architecture $($EA$).$ You are

required to develop knowledge on EA methodology, EA Framework, data model and emerging EA$.$ In

completing this assessment successfully, you will be able to know major widely accepted Enterprise

Architecture $($EA$)$ domains, layers, frameworks and governance, which will help in achieving ULO$-3,$

ULO$-4,$ and ULO$-5.$

Report: Part$-$I

EaglesIT is a diversified, multi$-$profile company. Essentially, it is a conglomerate company consisting

of three diverse strategic units acting as independent businesses under separate brands in different

industry sectors: Unit Alpha, Unit Beta and Unit Gamma. EaglesIT is governed from the central head

office, which oversights the three subsidiary business units and their financial performance

indicators, though without any operational interventions. Each strategic business unit has its own

managing director with full discretion and responsibility over its competitive strategy, investment

priorities, budget allocation and ensuing yearly profits.

Unit Alpha is in the food manufacturing business. The unit produces and distributes a variety of

goods including, but not limited to$,$ vegetables, groceries, meat and dairy products. Each of these

product lines requires unique production processes, storage arrangements, transportation

approaches and underlying equipment and is organizationally implemented by a separate

specialized product department. However, these products are delivered largely to the same circle of

customers, including both major retailers and local food shops. All product lines are also served by a

number of common unit$-$wide functions, e$.$g$.$ HR$,$ finance, accounting, logistics$,$ legal, marketing and

sales support.

Unit Beta competes in the restaurant business with $78$ IT staff. Specifically, the unit controls a chain

of small fast$-$food restaurants occupying the low$-$cost market niche. In total, the chain includes more

than $80$ restaurants located in different geographies and more restaurants are planned to be opened

in the foreseeable future. All restaurants offer same interiors, menus, prices, meals and services to

their customers and imply standardized policies, working procedures and supporting equipment.

However, each restaurant is run separately by a chief manager responsible for its overall financial

well$-$being and all necessary business processes, e$.$g$.$ recruiting, training, procurement, cooking,

servicing, cleaning and complaints management. With the exception of Unit Beta$$s lean central

office, where chain$-$wide branding, marketing and other strategic decisions are made, the

restaurants operate independently from each other and even have their own profit and loss

statements.

Finally, Unit Gamma runs a chain of resort hotels. These hotels gravitate towards the high$-$end price

segment and offer premium$-$quality services to their customers. Unit Gamma$$s competitive strategy

implies improving its brand recognition and achieving consistent customer experience. For this

purpose, the unit$$s leadership plans to standardize all customer$-$facing and, to a lesser extent, backoffice processes across all hotels of the chain as well as all its suppliers and service providers.

Moreover, Unit Gamma also intends to become $$closer$$ to its customers and build lifelong customer

relationships. This strategy requires collecting more information about customers, their individual

preferences and transaction histories, aggregating this information globally and leveraging it for

providing customized services, launching loyalty programs, developing special offers and promoting

personalized discounts.

As an EA manager at EaglesIT, you are required to write a report that discusses the following:

$1.$ Describe five major roles that Vision as EA Artifacts will play in EaglesIT.

$2.$ Discuss how Landscape as an EA Artifacts should be implemented in Unit Gamma

$3.$ What are the four responsibilities of architecture functions in EaglesIT?

$4.$ Based on IT staff ratio model and degree of decentralization as a factor, name and discuss

architects positions that would be required in Unit Beta.

Report: Part$-$II

Fincom is a large financial and stockbroker company. $8$ years ago Fincom decided to establish a fullfledged EA practice to accommodate with the growing problems around non$-$transparency of its IT

investments and poor business and IT alignment in general. The establishment of EA practice was

successful, and it was completed in the last $1$ year. Due to recent advancement in technologies, Fincom

wants to implement Cloud Computing technologies that would empower their staff and customers for

example, implementation of analytical Cloud Computing Technologies that would enable Fincom staff

to approve credit card application within $30$ minutes of the submission of the application.

However, Fincom$$s CEO is sceptical towards the implementation of cloud computing technologies. He

belie