Q: 7
Scenario:
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You are serving as the Chief Architect for a large, global commodities trading company which has
been growing rapidly through a series of acquisitions. Each business is performing well in its markets.
However, the lack of integration between headquarters and the business units has increasingly
caused problems in the handling of customer and financial information. The inability to share
information across businesses has resulted in lost opportunities to "leverage the synergies" that had
been intended when the businesses were acquired. At present, each business unit maintains its own
applications. Despite an earlier initiative to install a common application to manage customer,
products, supplier, and inventory information, each business unit has different ways of defining each
of these core elements and has customized the common application to the point where the ability to
exchange information is difficult, costly, and error-prone. As a result, the company has made the
decision to introduce a single enterprise-wide application to consolidate information from several
applications that exist across the lines of business. The application will be used by all business units
and accessed by suppliers through well defined interfaces.
Refer to the Scenario
As part of the process for establishing the Enterprise Architecture department, you are developing a
set of architecture principles to guide the activities. You need to specify the best approach for this
work. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
Options
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