The Government of Canada Enterprise Architecture Framework is a set of criteria used by the Government of Canada’s enterprise architecture review board and departmental architecture review boards to ensure that digital initiatives align with enterprise architectures across business, information, application, technology, and security domains. It supports strategic outcomes by providing principles and practices for business architecture, information architecture, application architecture, technology architecture, and security architecture. The framework emphasizes a whole-of-government approach where IT is aligned to business services and solutions are based on reusable components implementing business capabilities. This approach aims to deliver a cohesive user experience.
Another well-known framework is The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). It is widely used for enterprise architecture and provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture.
Enterprise architecture frameworks define how to create and use an enterprise architecture. They provide principles and practices for creating and using the architecture description of a system. These frameworks help organizations standardize and organize their IT infrastructure to align with business goals.
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