Tool-based support for organization-specific enterprise architecture management

Enterprise architecture (EA) management is a commonly accepted instru- ment for modern organizations to deal with today's challenging environment. Effectively designed an organization-specific EA management function can im- prove the overall agility of an organization. The design of such management function is a challenging task, in which the different process steps, information ows, and roles that constitute such function have to be shaped and aligned. The complexity of the management subject EA and the high number of involved stakeholders further aggravate the creation of a consistent but organization- specific EA management, and call for tool support during the design phase. In this phase, the designer selects the goals to be pursued, the concerns to be ad- dressed, and the roles to be involved. Based on this selection, the user is supplied with re-usable and practice-proven building blocks that can be integrated into a tailored EA management function for the using organization. Different sources for such building blocks exist, namely the EA management pattern catalog [1] or TOGAF [5], although the latter does not explicitly state such blocks.