What is Principle

Businesses are now very large and complex organisations and their analysis provides a great deal of information that in order to be understood, must be well organised and presented. Architecture is a scheme that allows a systematic examination of the entire enterprise and can provide a well-organised presentation of the key components, their interdependencies and the important causal relations. This paper discusses the problems associated with developing an architecture and suggests a framework for developing a reference model to guide the definition of the business architecture.