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In the next three to five years, more organisations will aspire to support a blended approach to enterprise architecture (EA), according to Gartner, Inc. EA is positioned as a management planning discipline to support decision making of management about Business & IT. Gartner analysts predict that 95 per cent of organisations will support multiple approaches to EA by 2015.2 Nowadays, businesses are realising that there is no one way to support enterprise architecture. Decisions may be heavily influenced by a business context and the organisation‟s business landscape, people and politics, future state vision and experience. Regardless of the approach, EA must facilitate change. The key is to create not the perfect or most elegant architecture for the moment, but the most adaptable architecture for the future. Gartner has identified four basic approaches to EA- traditional, federated, middle out and managed diversity. The majority of organisations will, in reality, support a mixture of more than one of these approaches based on their business needs. Traditional- In this approach, the EA team engages the organisation to facilitate the E