Model-Driven Validation Approach for Enterprise Architectures: A Synergy of Goals and Ontologies

As the endorsement of Enterprise Architecture (EA) modelling continues to grow in diversity and complexity, management of its schema, artifacts, semantics and relationships have become an important business concern. To maintain agility and flexibility within competitive markets, organizations have also been compelled to explore ways of adjusting proactively to innovations, changes and complex events by adoption of EA concepts to model business processes and strategies. Given that many taxonomies deployed today use widespread and disparate modelling methodologies, the possibility to adopt a generic validation approach remains a challenge. Disparate implementations and inconsistent simulation of alignment between business architectures and heterogeneous application systems is common within the EA domains. Thus the need to ensure appropriate validation of EA taxonomies has been considered severally as an essential requirement for these processes in order to ensure a synergy of business goals, motivation, related information systems and technological infrastructure.