NASCIO Enterprise Architecture Toolkit Version 3.0 (2004)

The NASCIO Enterprise Architecture Toolkit provides a foundational description of purpose and major components that comprise an effective state government enterprise architecture program. Enterprise architecture is an ongoing, iterative effort that is dynamic and adaptive. Similar to other business disciplines such as finance, marketing, human resources, accounting, enterprise architecture is a continual activity lasting throughout the life of an enterprise.

The toolkit presents basic components of enterprise architecture necessary for delivering the mission of state government. The toolkit is foundational and is built upon and supplemented through additional NASCIO resources addressing allied disciplines such as enterprise portfolio management, governance, data management and business relationship management. These additional resources include publications, webcasts, conference sessions and forum discussions.

The toolkit describes enterprise architecture and the essential architectural domains and does not prescribe any particular framework, methodology, or tools.

With the new emphasis on business architecture, NASCIO is rereleasing the toolkit, originally published in 2004.

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