IT architecture is perhaps the most common architecture developed today. The reasons for this are simple. Many of the architecture techniques have been developed by IT to cope with the explosive growth of the use of digital technology, the large cost of digitization, the complicated structure of enterprises and the rapidly changing structures that are needed to respond to market changes and economic impacts.
This course presents current core concepts in IT architecture. Methodologies such as TOGAF are discussed and frameworks such as the Zachman framework are covered. Linkages into the business architecture are described. The course also utilizes an extensive use of semantic analytics to validate, certify and perform comparative analysis of architectures.