A systematic review of enterprise architecture establishment process

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is gaining its importance and has become significant agenda in any Information Technology reform in most organisations. Despite many claimed benefits, establishment of EA can be challenging due to by many different EA views, methodologies and frameworks that exist at present. Therefore this study provides a systematic review of Enterprise Architecture (EA) establishment process with the aim to review the EA establishment process from the existing EA frameworks. 16 papers were selected in the synthesis process and finally only six EA frameworks were chosen for further analysis. The result shows there are 43 processes related to EA establishment and each EA framework has their own limitation and additional features. Results also indicate that these processes can be grouped into seven common EA processes across all frameworks which are used by all frameworks