Abstract:
The objective of this paper is to improve an organization's decision-making process for
developing an enterprise data architecture.
Enterprise data architectures are complex systems with multiple users who have com-
peting objectives for the system. When developing an enterprise data architecture, it can
be hard to satisfy all the organizations goals and maintain a consistent development plan.
The development team building the enterprise data architecture needs a robust decision-
making process to help them determine the architecture design for the organization. The
process needs to be able to quickly support questions that arise throughout the development
of the system. The goal is to reduce the amount of time answering questions after a decision
has been made on the architecture design and development plan.
The solution presented is a framework that uses value focused decision analysis and
model-based systems engineering to develop a parametric model which can be used to
identify the best architecture design for the organization and support answering questions
the organization's leadership might ask [1].
