Enterprise architecture approach for agility evaluation

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a business and IT management tool that has grown in popularity during the last decade. It is based on models of business and IT with systematic frameworks. The scope of the enterprise architecture includes the people, processes, information and technology of the enterprise, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment. Evaluation of enterprise architecture enables, organizations to assess their current situation. Definitely, it allows optimizing the alignment, business strategy, organizational culture, business, people, process and technology. This architecture optimization provides a cost-effective and also helps to ensure the proper execution of objectives and organizational goals. In this regard, this paper provides an approach based on network analysis towards EA analysis, and especially towards the agility of enterprise architecture, we propose a method for assessing agility achievement of different TO-BE scenarios and using different indicators based on the archimate metamodels of the enterprise architecture layers. © 2015 IEEE.