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Business Architecture

What is Business Architecture?

The description of an organization's structure, capabilities, and value streams that aligns business strategy with tactical execution.

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What the standards actually require on business architecture

Requirements naming business architecture across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.

Business architecture has been set up and built into the data management program: the function (or the business teams acting as such) that sets business strategy, objectives and requirements determines the scope of data needed, the data restrictions and protec...

edm-council-dcam-data-management-capability-assessment-model::3.1 · 3.1 Business Architecture →
COBIT 20191 control

The development methodology chosen for designing, building and implementing solutions (waterfall, agile or bimodal) fits the overall strategy and the requirements: the effect of that choice on resources, architecture needs, configuration and how rigid the syst...

cobit-2019::BAI03.12 · BAI03.12 Design solutions based on the defined development methodology →

Questions people ask about business architecture

What is Business Architecture?
The description of an organization's structure, capabilities, and value streams that aligns business strategy with tactical execution.
Why is Business Architecture important for compliance?
Business Architecture is a key concept in Governance. Understanding business architecture helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Business Architecture?
Business Architecture appears in the requirement text of EDM Council DCAM - Data Management Capability Assessment Model, COBIT 2019. Across these standards we have identified 2 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Business Architecture?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how business architecture applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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