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Any enterprise, such as a public sector body or commercial company, is a complex system with many types of components. Enterprise Architectures are used to describe the way these components work together to achieve defined business objectives.
The use of such frameworks is becoming increasingly important in the light of the demands of electronic delivery of services; pressures to reengineer business processes to achieve improved efficiency and greater customer focus, and the need to integrate legacy systems.
The Koios approach develops the architecture in terms of the unique purpose of the enterprise. Consequently subsequent analysis is coherent, consistent, comprehensive and, most importantly, conducted in terms that are relevant to the success of the enterprise.
Without this foundation, decisions about components and their interrelationships will be uncoordinated, ad hoc and inconsistent. The architecture that this produces will result in duplication of effort and resources, poor co-ordination and control, inability to share information and inefficient operational processes.
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