Effective, economic management of data underpins operations and enables transformations needed to satisfy customer demands, competition and regulation.
EDMworks has created a strategic data planning approach for the Investment Sector.
TOGAF acts as an extension to good business planning methods to provide a framework for the development of the systems and data architectural components.
Others, such as Ed Tozer, developed more focused offerings that dealt with the complexities of extracting key business needs from senior management and then defining relevant architectural visions for the specific enterprise.
[4] From these various sources, the concepts of Business, Data, Applications and Technology Architectures emerged.