Chapter 16.1

Business Value and the End-State Architecture

Abstract

There are very different degrees of business value that can be sustained across the end-
state architecture. And business value is realized in very different ways across the end-
state architecture.

Keywords

End state architecture; Business value; Applications; Data warehouse; Volume of data

The Evolution of the End State Architecture

The story of business value across the end-state architecture begins with an
understanding of the evolution of the architecture across the history of the organization.
The following describes the typical evolution of the architecture. (NOTE: the depiction is
for a hypothetical “typical” corporation. There is absolutely nothing to say that the
evolution of the end-state architecture will be different in some organizations.)

The typical evolution is shown in Fig. 16.1.1.

Chapter 16.1: Business Value and the End-State Architecture