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(Enterprise Architecture is) the set of descriptive representations (i.e., models) that are relevant for describing an Enterprise such that it can be produced to management's requirements (quality) and maintained over the period of its useful life.

— John Zachman Zachman (1987)

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Soon, the enterprise of the information age will find itself immobilized if it does not have the ability to tap the information resources within and without its boundaries.

Decentralization without structure is chaos.

p. 276 cited in: Robert Mylls (1994)

When the rate of change increases to the point that real time required to assimilate change exceeds the time in with change must be manifest, the enterprise is going to find itself in deep yogurt.

Zachman (1994)

There is a set of architectural representations produced over the process of building a complex engineering product representing the different perspectives of the different participants.

p. 283. cited in: Stephen L. Montgomery (1994)

To keep the business from disintegrating, the concept of information systems architecture is becoming less of an option and more of a necessity

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