Introduction Merging our company with The Wing Company to form Summit Solutions Corporation has brought about decisions regarding business information systems and what platforms would be the best suited for this organization. If this merger is to succeed, the organization needs to have a firm organizational strategic plan that will combine the strategies of both companies. The strategy will include how every person involved, in both organizations, will be affected, how the different platforms will work, and how these platforms can be brought together in order to reach our organization’s goals and objectives for future success. Additionally, the organization needs to have a decision processing system that will support the organization’s business processes, activities and tasks, how input and output data flows, business applications, and the organization’s technology infrastructure. In order to achieve this, the business objectives need to be defined, business workflow needs to be developed, development of system requirements, specification of the applications and data architectures, define information infrastructure, define information system program measures and metrics, and manage hardware and software integration.
Three Characteristics of Enterprise Architecture Enterprise architecture is defined as the goals of the organization, how these goals will be realized from the business processes, and how these “business processes can be better served through technology” (Sessions, 2006). “These systems are broken down into subsystems and connected to each other based on the relationship between them. The relationships and with external environment, users, guidelines, terminology are also defined as a part of enterprise architecture.” (Misra & Patel, n.d.)

Some other things to consider with enterprise architecture: have all stakeholders been identified such