NIST Enterprise Architecture Model
[2] Developed late-1980s by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and others, the federal government of the United States promoted this reference model in the 1990s as the foundation for enterprise architectures of individual U.S. government agencies and in the overall federal enterprise architecture.
[4] The NIST Enterprise Architecture Model is initiated in 1988 in the fifth workshop on Information Management Directions sponsored by the NIST in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computer Society, and the Federal Data Management Users Group (FEDMUG).
The results of this research project were published as the NIST Special Publication 500-167, Information Management Directions: The Integration Challenge.
The specific goal of the NCSL was to conduct research and provide scientific and technical services to aid Federal agencies in the selection, acquisition, application, and use of computer technology.
Five working groups considered specific aspects of the integration of knowledge, data management, systems planning, development and maintenance, computing environments, architectures and standards.
Among the 72 participants were Tom DeMarco, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Elizabeth N. Fong, Andrew U. Frank,[10] Robert E. Fulton,[11] Alan H. Goldfine,[12] Dale L. Goodhue,[13] Richard J. Mayer, Shamkant Navathe, T. William Olle, W. Bradford Rigdon, Judith A. Quillard, Stanley Y. W. Su,[14] and John Zachman.
Rigdon et al. (1989) [16] explained that discussions about architecture in that time mostly focus on technology concerns.
Their aim was to "takes a broader view, and describes the need for an enterprise architecture that includes an emphasis on business and information requirements.
According to Rigdon et al. (1989) an architecture is "a clear representation of a conceptual framework of components and their relationship at a point in time".
[27] The reference model is applicated the following frameworks: This article incorporates public domain material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
