Fig. 2.1.8 Networked metadata. Copyright Bill Inmon, 2018.

An Evolutionary Experience

Another typical question that arises with the end-state architecture is how it is built. In a
word, arriving at the end-state architecture is an evolutionary experience. No one sits
down and builds all of the end-state architecture at once. Such an undertaking is too
large, too complex, and too expensive. Instead, the end-state architecture grows over
time.

Some organizations start building one direction. Other organizations start building another
direction. Some organizations build part of the end-state architecture and never build
other parts.

There is no one “correct” path to the evolution of the architecture.

Fig. 2.1.9 shows that there are many paths to the building of the end-state architecture.

Chapter 2.1: The End-State Architecture—The “World Map”