Editing Enterprise architecture (section)

==Relationship to other disciplines==
According to the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), EA interacts with a wide array of other disciplines commonly found in business settings such as [[performance engineering]] and [[performance management|management]], [[process engineering]] and [[Process management (project management)|management]], [[IT portfolio management|IT]] and [[Enterprise project management|enterprise portfolio management]], [[Governance, risk management, and compliance|governance and compliance]], IT strategic planning, [[risk analysis]], [[information management]], [[metadata management]], [[organization development]], [[design thinking]], [[systems thinking]], and [[user experience design]].<ref name=feapo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forrester.com/clay_richardson/13-04-12-design_thinking_reshapes_ea_for_dynamic_business|title=Design Thinking Reshapes EA For Dynamic Business|date=2013-04-12|publisher=Forrester|last=Richardson|first=Clay|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419011441/http://blogs.forrester.com/clay_richardson/13-04-12-design_thinking_reshapes_ea_for_dynamic_business|archive-date=2013-04-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/gartner-urges-more-design-thinking-to-break-enterprise-architecture-out-of-its-silo/|title=Gartner urges more 'design thinking' to break enterprise architecture out of its silo|last=McKendrick|first=Joe|date=2010-05-19|publisher=ZDNet|access-date=2023-03-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/2010/02/who-owns-information-architecture-all-of-us.html|title=Who Owns Information Architecture? All Of Us.|last=Owens|first=Leslie|date=2010-02-02|publisher=Forrester|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205132536/http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/2010/02/who-owns-information-architecture-all-of-us.html|archive-date=2010-02-05}}</ref> The EA of an organization is too complex and extensive to document in its entirety, so [[knowledge management]] techniques provide a way to explore and analyze these hidden, tacit, or implicit areas. In return, EA provides a way of documenting the components of an organization and their interaction in a systemic and holistic way that complements knowledge management.<ref>{{cite book|title=Information First - Integrating Knowledge and Information Architecture for Business Advantage|last1=Evernden|first1=Elaine|last2=Evernden|first2=Roger|author2-link=Roger Evernden|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann|location=Oxford, England, UK|year=2003|isbn=978-0-7506-5858-4}}</ref>

In various venues,<ref>{{cite web|title=Service Oriented Architecture : SOA and Enterprise Architecture|url=http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/soa/soa_ea.htm|publisher=The Open Group|access-date=December 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110073815/http://www.opengroup.org/soa/source-book/soa/soa_ea.htm|archive-date=January 10, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> EA has been discussed as having a relationship with [[Service Oriented Architecture]] (SOA), a particular style of application integration. Research points to EA promoting the use of SOA as an enterprise-wide integration pattern.<ref>{{cite report|title=The Role of Service Oriented Architecture as an enabler for Enterprise Architecture|last1=Kistasamy|first1=Christopher|last2=van der Merwe|first2=Alta|last3=de la Harpe|first3=Andre|year=2012|publisher=AMCIS 2012 Proceedings|location=Seattle, Washington, USA|url=https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2012/proceedings/EnterpriseSystems/4/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/soa/rosa-sampaio-soa-gov-2080776.html|title=SOA Governance Through Enterprise Architecture|last1=Rosa|first1=Manuel|last2=de Oliveira Sampaio|first2=André|date=December 2013|publisher=Oracle|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030125/http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/soa/rosa-sampaio-soa-gov-2080776.html|archive-date=2013-12-19}}</ref> The broad reach of EA has resulted in this business role being included in the [[information technology governance]] processes of many organizations. Analyst firm Real Story Group suggested that EA and the emerging concept of the [[digital workplace]] are "two sides to the same coin."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realstorygroup.com/Blog/2311-Digital-workplace-and-enterprise-architecture-two-sides-to-same-coin|title=Digital workplace and enterprise architecture -- two sides to same coin|last=Byrne|first=Tony|date=2012-03-19|publisher=Real Story Group|access-date=2023-03-04}}</ref> The Cutter Consortium described EA as an information and knowledge-based discipline.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cutter.com/article/dealing-too-much-data-architectural-perspective-469106|title=Dealing with Too Much Data from an Architectural Perspective|last=Evernden|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Evernden|date=2012-11-13|publisher=Cutter|access-date=2023-03-04}}</ref>