BUILDING ENTERPRISE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES

Provides the easy to use Zachman Framework to develop the business views of an architecture. Discusses Plato's Classification Theory as used for information processing. Data to Process Affinity helps segment the architecture into components. Describes how DBMS, Data Dictionaries and Distributed Computing were intended to be used to control the architecture in companies. Shows that Data Modelling based on classification theory needs to be used by business people to understand their information needs.