The key to business stability and continuity is attributed to devoted IT professionals, well trained and capable of delivering superb systems. Their unwavering dedication to meet growing

business demand give enterprises the necessary competitive edge. Software architecture failure is the leading and direct cause of organizational revenue loss. In fact, ill-designed systems and their environments, is typically the root cause of business stagnation, resulting in painful calamity. To boost enterprise architecture capability for the purpose of providing sustainable business solutions, software architects must shoulder the lion's share burden when it comes to system design, development, integration, deployment, and operations.

This book will introduce best practices to improve the system design and integration, communication, business knowledge, and presentation skills of software architects. The career enablement, self-improvement, and self-training topics will shed lighton how to identify organizational problem domains and increase personal capabilities to deliverpowerful systems.

Consider the chief benefits of this book to enterprise software architects:

• - Develop personal skills required to perform architecture duties

o Technical

o Business

o Communication

o Presentation

o Product selection and evaluation

o System design

o System integration

• - Improve business analysis skills to be able to

o Understand organizational business strategy

o Identify enterprise business problems

o Comprehend business solutions

o Be familiar with business architecture

o Understand business requirements

• - Provide proper technological solutions
• - Provide enterprise-wide reusable system design solutions
• - Offer nimble and elastic system integration solutions
• - Foster interoperability between distributed systems
• - Promote software assets reuse and consolidation
• - Reduce organization technological expenditure