As the link between business and IT strategy, the enterprise architecture outlines the framework for IT solutions. The EA describes IT structures, standards, processes and shared corporate services. The task of an EA is to support the business areas and IT experts in shared planning processes and in the comprehensive further development of the IT architecture. Detecon decided to use TOGAF from Open Group as an open and widely accepted standard as basis for our architecture work. A comprehensive experience from successful projects at customers with different size and industry demonstrates the benefits of that strong methodology. Based on TOGAF basic structures, Detecon enhanced the methodology in different areas, e.g. the finance and controlling, business cases, governance or SOA migration strategy, and applies those successfully. Detecon trains architects in the TOGAF framework with the following goals:

To accelerate architecture development at their companies
To reduce complexity in planning heterogeneous best-of-breed systems
To secure the implementation of all requirements
To ensure security for the future
To provide a tool for improved communication of goals and strategies for business units and managers.