Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture is a practical hands‎-on instruction manual for enterprise architects‎.‎ This book prepares you to better engage IT‎,‎ management‎,‎ and business users by equipping you with the tools and knowledge you need to address the most common enterprise architecture challenges‎.‎ You will come away with a pragmatic understanding of and approach to enterprise architecture and actionable ideas to transform your enterprise‎.‎ Experienced enterprise architect James V‎.‎ Luisi generously shares life cycle architectures‎,‎ transaction path analysis frameworks‎,‎ and more so you can save time‎,‎ energy‎,‎ and resources on your next big project‎.‎ As an enterprise architect‎,‎ you must have relatable frameworks and excellent communication skills to do your job‎.‎ You must actively engage and support a large enterprise involving a hundred architectural disciplines with a modest number of subject matter experts across business‎,‎ information systems‎,‎ control systems‎,‎ and operations architecture‎.‎ They must achieve their mission using the influence of ideas and business benefits expressed in simple terms so that any audience can understand what to do and why‎.‎ Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture gives you the tools to accomplish your goals in less time with fewer resources‎.‎ It expand your Enterprise Architecture skills so you can do more in less time with less money with the priceless tips presented‎.‎ It understand the cost of creating new Enterprise Architecture disciplines and contrast those costs to letting them go unmanaged‎.‎ It includes 10 life cycle architectures so that you can properly assess the ROI of performing activities such as outsourcing‎,‎ insourcing‎,‎ restructuring‎,‎ mergers and acquisitions‎,‎ and more‎.‎ It complete appendix of eight transaction path analysis frameworks provide DBA guidelines for proper physical database design‎.‎