A Business Intelligence-Driven Approach to Government Enterprise Architecture

The adoption of e-government raises the need for government enterprise architecture (GEA). Approaches to EA development are mostly started with a strategic statement of the intended purpose of and the expected capabilities from an EA. In current approaches, the formulation of such statement requires key stakeholders to have sufficient knowledge on enterprise-wide IT. In this paper, we present a business intelligence (BI)-driven approach to EA development, in which the strategic statement refers to the BI objectives. The approach proposes a layered architecture whose order of abstraction levels are information, business, application, and technology architecture. The approach includes a (possibly iterative) step-by-step method for developing a GEA.