EA & Enterprise Control Boundaries

Before moving to a more interconnected way of doing business, the world where employees would pick up the phone and enter an order into a mainframe, life was relative simple from an Enterprise Architecture point of view. The span of control over the IT landscape was everything that was inside your enterprise and the number of inbound and outbound interfaces where limited or safeguarded by a human interaction undertaken by an employee.

Moving to the current state of doing business for enterprises and how enterprise systems become sub-systems of a wider hybrid cloud…